Staff writer
KOBE -- The Kobe board of education agreed late Thursday night to pay conditional unemployment compensation to foreign Kobe English Teaching Assistants (KATEs) that the city dismissed in February. But the city refused to rehire them, claiming there were no funds to do so.
The condition to unemployment compensation is that teachers must first pay into the system. Union officials rejected that demand.
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