Eikawa companies such as GABA and NOVA to introduce penalties towards teachers who cancel lessons for any reason from April 2024. Penalty rates go upto 6500 yen per lesson.

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1. Is this even real? Can’t be.

2. Negative paycheck??? How the fuck is this legal?

3. this reads like a parody, are we sure this is real? why would they need to define a list of reasons that includes accidents and (child) emergencies? and why would they *specifically* say that puking in class will be counted as a cancelled lesson?

4. People may need to accept that these kind of jobs are for people on extended Japan visits and not a career. I wouldn’t be surprised if some people are willing to volunteer for these just for the chance to live in anime . . .I mean Japan.

5. Good gods. I mean, I was at NOVA back when the bankruptcy hit, and I thought the place was a toxic money trap back then. This is just abominable.

6. They are both owned by the same company, and honestly this is not a surprise to me at all. The people in charge are sociopaths who care about only one thing, and spoilers: it isn’t their workforce.