Sky High Reviews

The contract is completely illegal and the owner does not follow Japanese business law. Employees are forced to work up to 13 hours without pay or breaks during breaks. Apartments are attached to the contract and the owner sometimes evicts his tenants (employees) at a whim if he becomes upset. No training is provided and employees are sometimes put in charge of classes of over 12 small children with no assistance. Schedules are set up so that you need to be at the workplace around the clock (over 1 hour before classes start) and it is always understaffed because workers quit due to not receiving pay or due to not having their pay increased after working there for many years. The owner forces his staff to provide free labor until their visa is accepted, and if it is not accepted he will immediately evict them from the apartment without any pay or compensation. He cuts hours so that no benefits are offered (he measures it so that employees get close to the cutoff point but half an hour difference so that he is legally not obliged to pay benefits). He also does not follow overtime laws or any other laws put in place to protect workers and he harasses and threatens his staff's wellbeing on a regular basis. Also, the clocks in the school are broken (the clock-in machine runs fast and most clocks are not set to the same time within the classroom, even the bell system sometimes doesn't work), yet the owner refuses to fix them ("it costs too much). No staff get pay raises, even if they work there for over 3 years and he keeps the pay so low that many get their visa rejected (and thusly end up working for free for an extended period of time). The owner has been sued over not paying his employees yet still continues to do this.

They could be too helpful.