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• MHWL’s “Karoshi Prevention General Principles” final proposal announced – “High-Professional” system not removed, conflicting with “Work-Style Reform Bill”;
• MHWL updates “black companies” list, adding Oji Paper Factory;
• Snow removal costs lead to pay cut? Fukui City employees protest unusual policy;
• Tohoku University dismissals to go to trial- “no compromises” seen in labor tribunal;
• Supreme Court: “disparity of allowances” with regular staff “partially unreasonable” – difference in the perfect-attendance allowance also seen as a problem;
• Half of university lecturers are part-time (hijokin), while a quarter of full-timers (jokin) are term-limited (ninki-tsuki) [Asahi Shinbun-Kawai Juku survey];
• And more!
(Translated from Japanese)