NOVA Pays ATs and BTs – Finally

This is an update to the continuing saga that surrounds NOVA English Conversation School. The update comes via a blog entry on Let’s Japan.org:

Nova pay up – finally!

Submitted by backtobed (not verified) on Fri, 09/28/2007 – 18:22.

I was up until recently a NOVA trainer and today we got paid…after being given the 14th,19th,21st,25th and 26th as dates when the money would “definitely” arrive in our accounts. Myself and many others are breathing a sigh of relief – that salary will pay for us to get to our job interviews. I don’t believe for a second that the fact that we’ve been paid today means everyone will be paid on time next month, or at all, but I just thought I’d let you all know – BTs and ATs were paid today. Good luck to everyone, whether you stick it out or walk.

I can tell you that this is true and not some fabrication. Amidst all the “promises” people have been paid, and from what I gather, in full.

To get some really good background info check out this article that appeared in the Japan Times entitled “Is it all over for NOVA?”. Another interesting website that has a lot of great economic information about NOVA, as well as Japan in general, is Japan Economy News and Blog. The author of this website is Ken Worsley, and he knows his stuff about the Japanese business arena.

To finish off this story I would turn you to this blog site, Debito.org, which has some speculative news about the possible future of NOVA in the form of questions posed, and comments given. If you visit the blog site you can see the questions and answers (The answers are contained in the 2nd of 13 responses. They were posted by one Novawhiz with great admiration coming from Debito).