{"id":6537,"date":"2010-10-14T10:20:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T01:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6537"},"modified":"2010-10-14T10:20:20","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T01:20:20","slug":"fukuoka-general-union-info-site-on-how-boes-are-outsourcing-alts-through-dispatch-companies-not-through-jet-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6537","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka General Union info site on how BOEs are outsourcing ALTs through dispatch companies, not through JET Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog.\u00a0 Here’s an informative page from the Fukuoka General Union on how local boards of education are outsourcing ALTs through dispatch companies in place of actual JETs through the JET Programme.\u00a0 Excerpt follows:<\/p>\n

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THE ALT SCAM<\/strong>
\nBy the Fukuoka General Union<\/strong>
\nThroughout Japan Boards of Education have been moving away from the JET program in favour of outsourcing ALT jobs to dispatch companies. In Fukuoka it has come to the point that most BOEs subcontract out their work.<\/p>\n

This page is aimed to shed some light on the current systems that operate to the detriment of ALTs – who are practically all non-Japanese (NJ).<\/p>\n

– Why do BOEs outsource ALT teaching jobs.
\n– The difference between direct employ, sub-contract and dispatch contracts.
\n– What is illegal about a sub-contract ALT working at a public school.
\n– The tender bid process.
\n– How much money do dispatch companies make from ALTs?
\n– Dispatch company ALT and health insurance.
\n– How dispatch companies and BOEs get rid of ALTs they don’t like.
\n– Ministry of Education tells BOEs to directly employ ALTs – BOEs ignore directive.
\n– Labour Standards Office issue reprimand, BOE has head in the sand.
\n– How the sub-contracting system damages other teachers in the industry.
\n– Why the Fukuoka General Union is fighting for direct employment.
\n– Reference materials
\n– You Tube news reports on the ALT sub-contracting issue (Helps explain the situation to Japanese teachers)<\/em><\/p>\n

Why do BOEs outsource ALT teaching jobs.<\/strong>
\nUp until a few years ago most local governments procured their Assistant Language Teachers (ALTs) through the JET program. However, with local government budgets tightening, they began looking for ways to cut expenditure. The cost of keeping a JET was about 6 million yen per year, so when they were approached by dispatch companies which offered to do it for less they jumped on the bandwagon. But not only did they save money, they outsourced the management of the ALTs, getting the dispatch company to take on the troublesome chore of getting the ALT accommodation, assimilating them into Japanese society and taking care of any trouble that arises. Like a cancer the number of non-JET ALTs at public schools increased to a point where they make up the bulk of ALTs in Fukuoka (and other) Prefectures. To outsource the ALT teaching jobs, they have determined that it is a “service” (\u696d\u52d9 gyomu)…<\/em><\/p>\n

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Rest at http:\/\/fukuoka.generalunion.org\/alt\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s an old article from the Mainichi I had lingering in my archives on this subject, to give you an idea just how widespread the practice is.\u00a0 Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n

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\n\u6bce\u65e5\u65b0\u805e\u30002010\u5e744\u670817\u65e5\u3000\u6771\u4eac\u671d\u520a, Courtesy JH
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FGU: Throughout Japan Boards of Education have been moving away from the JET program in favour of outsourcing ALT jobs to dispatch companies. In Fukuoka it has come to the point that most BOEs subcontract out their work.<\/p>\n

This page is aimed to shed some light on the current systems that operate to the detriment of ALTs – who are practically all non-Japanese (NJ).<\/p>\n

– Why do BOEs outsource ALT teaching jobs.
\n– The difference between direct employ, sub-contract and dispatch contracts.
\n– What is illegal about a sub-contract ALT working at a public school.
\n– The tender bid process.
\n– How much money do dispatch companies make from ALTs?
\n– Dispatch company ALT and health insurance.
\n– How dispatch companies and BOEs get rid of ALTs they don’t like.
\n– Ministry of Education tells BOEs to directly employ ALTs – BOEs ignore directive.
\n– Labour Standards Office issue reprimand, BOE has head in the sand.
\n– How the sub-contracting system damages other teachers in the industry.
\n– Why the Fukuoka General Union is fighting for direct employment.
\n– Reference materials
\n– You Tube news reports on the ALT sub-contracting issue (Helps explain the situation to Japanese teachers)<\/p>\n

Why do BOEs outsource ALT teaching jobs.
\nUp until a few years ago most local governments procured their Assistant Language Teachers (ALTs) through the JET program. However, with local government budgets tightening, they began looking for ways to cut expenditure. The cost of keeping a JET was about 6 million yen per year, so when they were approached by dispatch companies which offered to do it for less they jumped on the bandwagon. But not only did they save money, they outsourced the management of the ALTs, getting the dispatch company to take on the troublesome chore of getting the ALT accommodation, assimilating them into Japanese society and taking care of any trouble that arises. Like a cancer the number of non-JET ALTs at public schools increased to a point where they make up the bulk of ALTs in Fukuoka (and other) Prefectures. To outsource the ALT teaching jobs, they have determined that it is a “service” (\u696d\u52d9 gyomu)…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,19,4,16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-business-practices","category-education","category-japanese-government","category-labor-issues","category-problematic-foreign-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}