Interac Employer Reviews

They play games with working hours. For example, they tell the instructor that they need to be available for work from 8AM to 5PM and some schools will have the instructors there for those hours. But Interac keeps instructors off the government mandated social health insurance/pension plan ("shakai hoken" in Japanese by claiming that only 5.9 or fewer – more...  of those hours are actually "work" time, thus making the instructors part-timers. Interac claims that they cannot enroll their instructors in shakai hoken but this is a lie. Not only can they, but they are required to.
Most Japanese companies give their employees two bonuses a year but Interac does not give its foreign employers. There had been a contract completion bonus but, at least for me, it disappeared and it had been tiny compared to normal bonus sizes.
The Japanese government has told local boards of education not to use dispatch companies like Interac but many continue to do so.
Japanese labor guidelines set up how many paid days off instructors get but Interac puts some of those days during the summer break so they do not have to give their employees as many days off.
Over the years they have shaved pay and the number of vacation days.
Interac changed many of its instructors to a kind of dispatch contract called 'itaku'. This is because itaku type of dispatch workers do not get job security unlike the normal dispatch workers. After several years of working at a company as a dispatch worker (temp workers sent from an agency), they workers are considered to have become dependent on their jobs and they cannot be let go without good reason. Itaku workers do not get this permanency but they are not allowed to get any directions from the people at the job site. The other teachers at the school are not allowed to discuss anything about classes or how they will be taught. The schools must contact Interac who will then send a fax or email to the instructor. So, even though discussing class content is a very normal and necessary thing, it is expressly forbidden. And the Japanese teacher must be present in the classroom but cannot participate in the teaching at all while the foreign instructor is teaching. All this crazy smoke and mirrors craziness is to prevent the instructors from getting any job security. This is an indication of the character of the managers and owners of Interac.
If dispatch companies like Interac didn't exist, local boards of education would hire their instructors directly. There would be more job security, better pay, and better treatment.
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