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Marriage rate for non-regular employees half that of regular employees
Single males in non-regular employment have a much lower marriage rate than that of regular employees, a government survey has shown. Moreover, the birth rate is lower among female non-regular workers than their regularly-employed peers, according to the survey. The results of the survey conducted by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry suggest that the…
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March in March 2009
Thank you to the over 400 marchers who made this year’s March in March a success! More March in March 2009 Photos
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October-March temp firings up 26% to 157,806
An estimated 157,806 nonregular employees, mainly temporary workers in the manufacturing sector, are expected to lose their jobs between last October and next month amid the recession, a labor ministry survey showed Friday. The estimated number of job cuts during the six-month period represents a 26.4 percent rise from the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry’s…
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Nonregular workers axed hits 158,000
Nonregular workers who have lost their jobs or will become unemployed during the October-March period number 157,806 throughout the country, more than five times the corresponding figure in late November, a Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry survey showed Friday. The ministry conducted the survey by collating data on nonregular employees from the ministry’s Hello Work…
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Court forcibly removes sacked workers who continued to operate hotel
Tokyo District Court enforcement officers on Sunday forcibly removed sacked workers who had continued to operate a hotel in Tokyo even after it was closed down in October last year due to financial difficulties. The situation arose after the original operator of the Keihin Hotel decided to close it down and fire its approximately 130…
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Laid-off hotel workers thrown out
Officials from the Tokyo District Court evicted former workers from the Keihin Hotel in front of JR Shinagawa Station on Sunday, based on a Jan. 15 provisional ruling that supported the owner’s decision to sell the facility. The former workers and labor union members [including members of NUGW Tokyo Nambu] who were supporting them occupied…
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Cabinet team formed to help foreign settlers
Permanent settler status is granted to foreigners of Japanese descent, Japanese who as children were left behind in China after the war and others with extraordinary circumstances. Permanent resident status is given to foreigners who have lived in Japan for a certain period and meet other criteria. Brazilians of Japanese origin are eligible for permanent…
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4,300 foreign workers face job losses
Reflecting the precarious working conditions experienced by many non-Japanese laborers, a recent government survey found roughly 4,300 foreign workers lost, or were expected to lose, their jobs as of December. Over 30 percent of the 486,000 foreign nationals working in Japan are employed as dispatch or contract workers, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare…
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Japan’s Brazilians demand job security as exports slow
Demanding better job and housing security, a demonstration by 300 Brazilians and their supporters [including members of the Nambu Foreign Workers Caucus] in Tokyo Sunday is just the latest sign of the impact that the global economic slowdown is having on Japan’s Brazilian-based workforce. Waving their national flags across the busy streets of central Tokyo,…
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Brazilian workers protest layoffs in Japan
Some 200 Brazilian workers Sunday protested over layoffs by Japanese companies, which are forcing many of them to leave the country despite their community having been integrated in Japan for more than two decades. The demonstrators, who included mothers with their children [and also included members of the Nambu Foreign Workers Caucus], marched through the…