Got the required 30 days noticed mid July, I’ll officially be canned mid August. Besides going to Hello Work, are there any other things I should do, or tips?
Thought about filing a complaint about wrongful dismissal but I kind of want to be over it as soon as possible. The way they went about things at the end left a bad taste in my mouth.
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Stop wasting your energy on this company and put your time and effort towards finding a new job.
Make sure the paperwork of you leaving specify that you were let go, not leaving on your own terms. It affects when you can start getting money from Hello Work.
Once you get the paperwork, don’t forget to register for health insurance and pension. Or stay on the company health insurance if it’s an option and it’s cheaper.
Inform migration that you have left, within two weeks of leaving.
More details needed. How long have you worked there? What is the salary range? It’s difficult to give device with the key information missing.
After you’ve registered at Hello Work and been told you qualify for unemployment grants, it is possible to get your health insurance payments lowered significantly.
For example see the criteria on Shibuya city’s homepage here: https://www.city.shibuya.tokyo.jp/kurashi/kokuho/kenkohokenryo/hokenryo_hijihatsu.html
A few things regarding HelloWork – I am just about to come off unemployment insurance and back into work so I have experience here.
1) I noticed you mentioned in another post you were employed there for around 4 months. It is a requirement to have been paying employment insurance for at least 6 months, within one year prior to leaving your last job. The wording sounds like you should be okay, since you were employed before this job and (presumably) paying towards employment insurance. See more : [https://jsite.mhlw.go.jp/aichi-foreigner/var/rev0/0110/3895/2013819175422.pdf](https://jsite.mhlw.go.jp/aichi-foreigner/var/rev0/0110/3895/2013819175422.pdf)
2) When you have left your job, you will have to go to HelloWork and get some forms for your previous employer to fill out. Your employer determines what they provide as your reason for leaving. If you disagree with it, HelloWork can ask them to reconsider. If they do not reconsider, it would be up to you to gather evidence to prove the real reason for your departure – This happened to me. I did decide to leave, but there was what I thought was legitimate reasons but my employer reported it as unjustifiable personal reasons (the most common type used by employers). Note that until this situation is resolved and both you and your employers stated reason for your departure is confirmed, the process can not begin. So I decided to just agree with my employer because the time it would have taken to fight the issue would likely have been the same amount of time I would have to wait without payment – Then if I lost, I would have to wait further since the process hadn’t actually began by that point. It sucks but HelloWork is not there to mediate between employers and employees, so do not expect any help outside of following the processes if there is any issue in this regard.
3) To add on to the above – I believe that your employer has about a month to complete the documents. Again, until this is done the process can not continue. Frustrating, I know. Again, HelloWork will not push the issue with the employer to speed up the process because they do not mediate between employees and employers.
4) Once it has actually started, the process is fairly straight forward. There is a 7 day waiting period from the day that your eligibility is confirmed. You will be given a date at which you need to attend a seminar (about an hour) regarding what HelloWork can do to help you find work – expect everything to be in Japanese and nothing to be translated for this. You will also be provided a date for verification. If you have no benefit restriction period, your payments will be from after the 7-day period until the day before verification. If you have a restriction period, you still have to attend the first verification but no payment. Instead, you will be given your second verification day, which will be set after the restriction period (They have groups for when verification days are, they are every 4 weeks and are mandatory with few exceptions – missing one of these days will impose a benefits restriction period on you. Expect a roughly 3 month wait from confirmation of eligibility to first payment).
5) Rules – Generally speaking you are not allowed to work or earn money on a regular basis while receiving the insurance payments. Any recurring income will be classified as you being in work (even if it is a very small amount) and thus will nullify your payments. This rule applies during benefit restriction periods also!! There can be exceptions for one-off events and work, but there is a lot of paperwork regarding this. Also, it is a criminal offense if you lie about working during this period. A part of the form you bring to the verification day has a calender where you have to input days where you earned money if you did, and then they will ask about it and (I think) deduct some from your benefits for the month (could be wrong. I didn’t work during that period to avoid the hassle).
If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
Show up everyday, looking increasingly disheveled, eat from a bag of steadily decaying fruit.
You’re being dismissed illegally, but it’s up to you if you want to challenge this. Since it’s a fixed-term contract, they should pay you the remaining of the contract if they want to terminate you now, or keep you on the payroll until the end.
If you want to challenge this, you’ll need to immediately ask for the Statement of Reason for Dismissal (解雇理由の説明書), they legally have to provide you with this. It’ll also send them a signal that you might be suing them, starting from the labour board. Just asking them for the Statement of Reasons might get them to offer you substantially more.
I did this, I was able to negotiate a year’s salary. My ex company offered me a month initially. We didn’t even submit the lawsuit, they threw in the towel before that.
Lawyer will cost you around 200k+tax for the retainer, and then perhaps 10%+tax for what you’re able to extract from the company.
If they offered you a severance package…don’t sign it you are entitled to atleast 10months worth of pay. You can still technically work for them and still be on their payroll. I did this for about three months while in negotiations and job hunting at the same time. If they want to get rid of you that easily they better pay up up up. Ball’s definitely in your court. Don’t sue them waste of money and energy. Best of luck