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Occupy Wall Street resonates within Japan
According to business consultant Masao Kitami, during 1997-2007, total wages declined by ¥20 trillion. “When people say Japan is becoming a society with a widening income gap,” he writes, “I tell them, we’ve descended into a ‘low-wage society.'”
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All employees in Japan are entitled to paid leave, period
Paid leave is a right all employees are entitled to. A worker who has been employed continuously for six months from the day they were hired and has reported for work on at least 80 percent of their assigned workdays must be granted annual paid leave, according to Article 39 of the Labor Standards Act.
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Collective Bargaining Demands Submitted to Interac/Maxceed
Demands for collective bargaining were submitted today to the offices of Interac/Maxceed/Selti. Remember that time you asked your boss about Shakai Hoken and you were ignored? Or that time you asked about the possibility of a pay raise next year and you were brushed off? Or that time you asked why you only get partial…
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Joytalk ALTs Unionized
Zenkoku Ippan Tokyo General Union and its Tozen ALTs Branch recently declared the existence of its Joytalk Shop to management and submitted a slate of 28 collective bargaining demands.
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Calm at J. Village belies the danger
“For example, one worker kept working at the Fukushima No. 1 plant for more than 10 years. Even after the accident, he kept working and he was fired after his dose exceeded 40 millisieverts,” Watanabe said. “He had once falsified his exposure records so he would not lose his job.”
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Teachers bolt jobs over mental angst
The number of first-year teachers who left their job for health reasons has increased twentyfold over the past 10 years, with most citing apparent emotional issues, an education ministry survey has found.
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Over 10,000 construction workers and family thought to be without health insurance
Over 10,000 people who joined a public health insurance program for self-employed construction workers even though they were not qualified to are thought to be without health insurance now, it has been learned.
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Schizophrenic Constitution leaves foreigners’ rights mired in confusion
So what rights do foreign residents have under the Constitution? Well, according to the Supreme Court, they are entitled to all the same rights as Japanese people, except for those which by their nature are only to be enjoyed by Japanese people.
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Japan’s population marks slowest growth in 2010
“While Japan has entered an era of population decline, its total population has been flat because of an increase in foreign nationals,” a ministry official said.
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Vietnamese to be trained as nurses
While more than 1,300 candidate nurses and caregivers have traveled to Japan from the two countries, only 19 have passed Japan’s qualification examination for nurses, due largely to language difficulties.