| DO NOT TOUCH SHANE WITH A BARGE POLE!
I work for Shane in Japan and without a doubt they are a bunch of cowboys who ride their staff for every yen that they can get. They basically employ every single trick in the eikaiwa handbook of skanking your teachers. Some highlights include-
Overcharging on their apartments by up to 25,000 yen (250 dollars) per month.
Schools up to 2 hours away. This includes claiming that commutes over 1 and a quater hours away are paid over time yet only including time spent RIDING trains - discounting getting to/ from stations and waiting on platforms - inshort, no overtime payments.
Not employing cover teachers and expecting staff to cover on their days off. This is combined with a hideously complicated overtime system which allows people to work all but three or four days a month and not recieve any overtime.
Sending people to schools 2 hours from their homes and not paying time spent not teaching (because of course, you can pop home on a ninty minute gap between lessons.)
Up to six hours of teaching daily with only 30 mins paid prep time.
A (personally) highly misleading recruitment policy - I was told a lot of things that turned out to be different when I arrived in Japan - but then again, if they told the truth, nobody would work for them.
Rock bottom staff morale - they are heamorraging teachers. People regularly disappear the day after pay day (if you give due notice, they will of course take every yen they can any way they can) and in some areas there is a staff turnover of 20 percent PER MONTH. They are heamorraging teachers because they offer the worst working conditions in Japan - you are better off working for NOVA! |