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Fight For Your Rights
NUGW [Tokyo Nambu] boasts about 65 workplace branches, and it has 200 more members at companies without on-site branches. Approximately 20 percent of its 2,600 members are foreigners, and 80 percent of those are teachers; another 10 percent work for newspapers. NUGW [Tokyo Nambu], whose foreign members are mostly from Western countries, is one of…
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Nova teachers demand unpaid wages
The labor union of scandal-tainted language school operator Nova Corp. filed a request with labor standards supervision authorities Thursday to order the company to pay wages in arrears to its foreign teachers, union officials said. The industry giant, already embroiled in a scandal related to its fraudulent advertising practices, has failed to pay September wages,…
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Aussie teachers ask Nova to show them the money
A COMPANY that employs thousands of Australians in Japan is still recruiting English teachers in Sydney despite failing to pay its staff for more than 12 days. Japanese language company Nova, which claims to have up to 5000 Australian employees, has yet to explain the delay in payments. Australian teachers say they fear eviction from…
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Ailing NOVA under pressure to pay teachers’ delayed wages
A labor union will ask a governmental labor inspection office to demand troubled English school NOVA pay its teachers their delayed wages. NOVA started to delay paying wages to its Japanese staff members in late July, and has been late paying its foreign teachers since Sept. 14, General Union officials said. [Tokyo Nambu’s sister union]…
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Ex-Nova students sue for refunds
Four people who canceled their English-language lesson contracts with Nova Corp. filed a lawsuit against the language school with the Kyoto District Court on Wednesday, demanding refunds totaling about 2.45 million yen in tuition for unattended classes. Ten other former Nova students also filed a lawsuit with the court on the same day, demanding that…
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NOVA hit with group lawsuits over return of lesson fees
Fourteen people have filed two group lawsuits against major English-language school NOVA in the Kyoto District Court, demanding money they say the school has failed to return to them. The plaintiffs are demanding a combined 6.58 million yen from NOVA. Some of the plaintiffs claim that the school inappropriately reduced the amount of money that…
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Is it all over for Nova?
As ‘eikaiwa’ giant plans school closures amid credit crunch, some fear the worst The dark clouds that have been hanging heavily over us will be cast aside,” reads the English translation of Nova Corp. CEO Nozomu Sahashi’s memo faxed to staff Friday. “I said previously ‘the darkest time is before the dawn,’ and finally the…
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Kiwis caught up in Japanese cash crisis
The jobs of hundreds of New Zealand teachers are under threat after financial concerns about one of Japan’s biggest English language schools. The Nova group has not paid some of its staff and is planning to close some of its schools. It is Japan’s biggest private English Language School and 3 News visited it only…
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Japanese cash crisis hits NZ tutors
Hundreds of young New Zealanders have been caught up in financial problems affecting Japan’s biggest private English language school, Nova. Japanese newspapers reported that the company was closing 200 of its 900 campuses after the Government imposed a six-month ban on new long-term student contracts at the company in June. A New Zealand Embassy spokesman…