[lg policy] Fwd: [Edling] Japan: Suit over dismissal to tackle thorny issue of language teachers=?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=99_?=employment status

Harold Schiffman hfsclpp at GMAIL.COM
Wed Apr 30 13:56:16 UTC 2014


Forwarded From:  <edling at bunner.geol.lu.se>
Date: Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 3:23 AM

[Edling] Japan: Suit over dismissal to tackle thorny issue of language
teachers’ employment status



 The Japan Times



Suit over dismissal to tackle thorny issue of language teachers’ employment
status



In the picture, Brkic is a fresh-faced young man in his early 30s (he is 44
now), immaculately dressed in a well-pressed suit and tie — a poster boy,
almost, for foreign language-school teachers in Japan.



But those were happier times.



Now the idea of being part of the “ICC family” has taken on a dark, bitter
irony for Brkic, whose employment at the company was suddenly terminated
after 22 years of service.



Full story:
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2014/04/14/issues/suit-over-dismissal-to-tackle-thorny-issue-of-language-teachers-employment-status/#.U2Ckd-9ZodU

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