Category: Dispatch

Management, labor at odds over plans to ban daily-paid temporary staff The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry still faces many hurdles with its plan to toughen regulations on temporary dispatch workers due to the gulf between the opinions of management and labor sides on toughening regulations. A ministry panel issued a report aimed at reversing…

The government is considering banning staffing firms from dispatching one type of worker to jobs that last 30 days or less to enhance the protection of temporary workers, government sources said Sunday. The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry initially planned to prohibit temporary staffing agencies from dispatching registered workers for day-labor jobs by submitting a…

…the shift from permanent employment toward part-time and temporary hiring that emerged during the prolonged economic slump has not been reversed, despite the economic turnaround Japan has seen in the past several years. Many people who failed to land full-time jobs after college graduation are now stuck in nonregular positions as they grow older. Unlike…

Corporate efforts to cut labor costs by reducing the number of regular employees and hiring more part-time and dispatch workers are actually stifling productivity and hampering economic growth, a government report said Tuesday. In its annual white paper on labor and the economy, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare suggested that companies return to…

A ruling coalition project team Tuesday compiled a package of recommendations to tighten restrictions on the temp staff industry, including a ban on dispatches of low-skilled day laborers. The team of the Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito submitted the package to Yoichi Masuzoe, the minister of health, labor and welfare, urging him to revise…

The ruling coalition plans to oblige staffing agencies to disclose their commissions and call on client companies to take responsibility for covering temp workers’ compensation insurance, according to a draft plan aimed at reforming the labor dispatch system. The plan by the Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito, revealed Wednesday, also seeks to address the…

A ruling coalition task force agreed Wednesday that temp staff agencies should be banned from dispatching workers on a single-day basis, a practice criticized for spawning the “working poor” phenomenon and exacerbating social disparities, lawmakers said. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and junior coalition partner New Komeito plan to recommend ways of amending the worker…

“We are like rental products that are shipped to clients as needed.” These words, spoken by a 39-year-old man who barely gets by as a dispatch day laborer, appeared on The Asahi Shimbun’s lifestyle page. What business makes a man in his prime utter such a self-deprecating comment? Goodwill Inc., a major temp agency, is…

Double-dispatch arrests trigger firm’s liquidation Goodwill Group said Wednesday it will close its scandal-tainted temp staff unit Goodwill Inc. by the end of July because the health ministry is preparing to revoke its business license. Goodwill Inc. said it will ask its clients to directly hire its temp staff assets or ask other temp staff…

A Tokyo employment agency and its president face charges for evading approximately 120 million yen in consumption tax, taxation authorities said. The Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau filed accusations with prosecutors against Tokyo Business Corp. (TBC) and its president, 82-year-old Shigemi Ikari, on suspicion of violating the Consumption Tax Law. TBC under-reported the amount of consumption…