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Demands submitted to Interac/Maxceed concerning Drug Testing
２０１２年４月２９日 株式会社インタラック 御中 株式会社マクシード 御中全国一般東京ゼネラルユニオン 執行委員長ルイス・カーレット 全国一般東京ゼネラルユニオン 東ゼンＡＬＴ支部 執行委員長アムジッド・アラム 緊急団交申し入れ Emergency Request for CB 全国一般東京ゼネラルユニオン（略称：東ゼン）ならびに全国一般東京ゼネラルユニオン東ゼンＡＬＴ支部は、貴社に対して、緊急団体交渉を申し入れます。貴社は先日、当組合員らを含む従業員らに対して、薬物検査を受けるよう指示したと伺いました。薬物検査は、通常の雇用関係においてはこれを行う必要性が認められず、よほどの事情がない限り、従業員に広く行われるものではないはずです。昨今の個人情報保護の重要性に鑑みても、安易にこのような検査を実施することに対して、大きな疑問を抱きます。 つきましては、下記の議題にて団交を実施したく存じます。 Zenkoku Ippan Tokyo General Union (“Tozen”) and Zenkoku Ippan Tokyo General Union Tozen ALTs request emergency collective bargaining. We have heard that you instructed your employees, including union members, to undergo drug testing. The need for drug testing is not accepted for an ordinary employment relationship…
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Welfare ministry to bring charges against businesses dodging employee pension plan
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has decided to bring charges against business owners who refuse to join the employee pension program and pay insurance premiums — a violation of the Employees’ Pension Insurance Act. Starting from the current fiscal year, the ministry will file a complaint with police against businesses dodging the mandatory pension…
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No legal cure-all for fixed-term job insecurity
By HIFUMI OKUNUKI We like to think that work is about more than just making money, but the reality is that most of us have to work to earn our daily bread. A steady job is crucial for our long-term well-being. In Japan, employment contracts may be either open-ended or fixed-term. Temporary contracts are unregulated…
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Bill passed to lift temp workers’ lot but no manufacturer dispatch ban
The revision forbids dispatch agencies from contracting temporary workers for 30 days or less. Also, employers will be urged to give temp workers the same pay as regular employees if they’re doing the same work.
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47 foreign trainees pass nursing exam
A total of 47 Indonesian and Filipino nurses passed this year’s national licensing examination for nurses under a project to accept foreign trainees, the health ministry announced Monday.
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A promise of employment is binding, Supreme Court ruled in late 1970s case
[Fresh college graduates] spend a preposterous number of hours in a back-breaking, shoulder-stiffening ritual called shū katsu, drafting application documents, undergoing interviews, pretending to smile — all hell-bent on leaving a good impression and winning a saiyō naitei promise of employment from a coveted corporation.
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Wages rebound in January for 1st time in 13 months
The regular monthly wage for workers in Japan eked out a 0.3 percent gain in January from a year earlier to an average 261,074 yen.
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Don’t Let Interac Force you to Resign
It seems that around this time every year, people in the Interac office attempt to cut save another few yen at the expense of the people that are actually out in the classroom doing all of the actual work. They call teachers into their office and attempt to force them to sign resignation papers. DON’T…
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Berlitz court ruling unequivocal on basic right to strike
After hearing more than three years of testimony, the judge took only a minute to read the court’s verdict rejecting Berlitz Japan’s ¥110 million lawsuit against striking teachers and their union and reaffirming organized labor’s right to take industrial action.
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Shakai Hoken Seminar
Learn how the Japanese social insurance system of public health and pension works starting from the laws, the directives and the differences between Kenko Hoken and Kokumin Kenko Hoken.