Category: Dispatch

According to the Asahi article, the labor bureaus have been sending warnings to such companies for at least two years. The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry conducted a survey in 2004 and estimated that there were 870,000 ukeoi laborers in Japan at the time. What’s more, most of the workers who replied to the survey…

Some firms have neglected their legal requirement to report job-related accidents involving contract temporary workers to the labor authority. Others have left such workers without social security coverage. The practice must be stopped. But simply treating these workers fairly as temporary workers, as they actually are, won’t be enough. Employers should consider offering permanent jobs…

Matsushita Plasma Display Panel Co. (MPDP) rectified its illegal labor situation at a factory in July 2005, but implemented a similar system less than a year later after some shifty maneuvers, sources said. The problem surrounds a plasma-TV manufacturing plant in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, where between 700 and 800 workers from subcontracted companies are making…

Matsushita Plasma Display Panel Co. (MPDP) rectified its illegal labor situation at a factory in July 2005, but implemented a similar system less than a year later after some shifty legal maneuvers, sources said. The problem surrounds a plasma-TV manufacturing plant in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, where between 700 and 800 workers dispatched from subcontracted companies…

Some of Japan’s biggest manufacturers are skirting labor laws in a practice that allows them to avoid responsibility for the safety of “subcontracted” workers. The system also leaves the workers vulnerable to low pay and sudden dismissal. These companies have been repeatedly warned by prefectural labor bureaus to change their hiring practices, but many offenders…