Do Not Recommend. At all. - Avis employé Instructor Model Language Studio

Where to even start with this.... TLDR: This is 100% a Black Company flying under the government’s radar. Benefits - they are nonexistent despite the fact teachers sign “Full Time Instructor” contract. They claim because hours are set at 25ish a week, they don’t have to provide benefits. A phone call to the Labor Bureau provides information that says otherwise. Working hours vs Paid Hours - there is quite a bit of unpaid time on company property. You are only paid for the scheduled class times. Prep work, clean up, transferring between locations, etc are all completely unpaid and yet demanded by the company. (Yes. That’s illegal to expect us to be in the classroom, working, and not get paid for it) Hidden extra work days - up front you are informed about three extra work days; two presentation days and a cultural festival type day. What they don’t tell you, is that during Off Class period, you are forced to work 6 day work weeks - for no extra pay. They claim they give you extra time off in the summer/winter to make up for these extra work days. No sick days - children are walking infection factories. That is a known fact. Teachers get sick due to this. Yet, there are no personal or sick days to support teachers when they get sick. Instead our pay gets deducted, forcing many of the teachers to show up school running fevers and not in safe condition to be around children. Run down locations/Dirty classrooms - NONE of the locations are maintained. Many of them have black mold. None of the aircons have been professionally cleaned in who knows how long. Several studios have a history of drastically impacting teachers’ health due to the level of mold infestation and the owners’ lack of care to fix the issue. Staff have been told not to inform the property management of mold issues at certain locations. Lack of care about Child Safety - not a single Instructor undergoes First Aid training despite the fact we are entrusted with the public’s children. There are classes where children eat with the teachers and yet none of them have training to rescue a child if they choke (which has happened and home office swept it under the rug and pretended it never happened). Often times, instructors who don’t speak Japanese are left alone with young children with zero back up in case of an emergency. We live in a natural disaster prone area. A Japanese staff member should be in studios at all times who KNOWS emergency protocol should a natural disaster happen. But again, the owners don’t care about that. They actively chose to ignore the safety of VERY young children. All studios do have a first aid kit, but they are woefully understocked, often expired. There is also no emergency food/water/supplies in case of a natural disaster. Disconnect between Sales Staff and Teaching Staff - the sales staff seriously have no idea what is going on in the classroom. They will often book one day trials or Furikaes on days that are incredibly inconvenient for both teachers, assistants, and current students. They simply don’t care. They book demos/extra classes with no regard to whether there is a teacher available to work the demo/extra class. And when a sales member actually messed up, the Instructor takes the fall and not the sales person who screwed up. The owners - They actually have no clue who works for them. Neither of them have been in a classroom in ages and have no CLUE what’s going on in the studios. They refuse to listen to their teaching staff and home office staff. They have a history of forcing good staff members to leave (firing) strictly because those staff members tried to protect the instructors from the owners opportunistic and illegal ideas.