Well today I took the first in a major and painful step. I saw a lawyer with a six page summary including mens rhea and actus rhea outlines as well as a prayer for the court for relief (yes, those are the right words, legalese
) and I included both dokusei and shin in it for Japanese understand (yes, Japanese legalese too). Thankfully he speaks English well enough that he could read the contract. Our consultation was for 40 minutes but it expanded into an hour as this is just such a thorny mess. The good news, a lot of my grievances can be dealt with.
The bad, 300,000 yen just to start litigation. payout is pretty hefty afterwards too. And since this month I only earned 40,000 yen in total, ummmm.... yeah.
The ugly. Full court litigation would take over a year, so arbitration is the first point. It will involve both the school and the company. If that fails then it goes to the court.
The blindside, there's trouble at my new school. A teacher seems to have made a mountain out of a mole hill and as the brown stuff always goes down, I and the other gaijin teacher are going to get slammed with it. As I am the new teacher, I could fair far worse.
