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• “Rules for Publicizing the Names of Companies with Illegal Overtime” effectiveness questioned;
• Minimum wage: with 26-yen raise, national average guideline figure becomes 874 yen;
• Immigration Agency being considered due to increase in foreign workers;
• Terminations of veteran dispatch workers rampant ahead of September – avoidance of mandatory “seishain after three years” rule?;
• You can get all your yūkyū-kyuka (Annual Paid Leave) even if you quit in the middle of the year: Twitter user in the news for giving company brush-off;
• Labor tribunal over dismissals at Tohoku University.: three more people move to regular lawsuit;
• Dismissal for suing company “unfair”;
• Dismissed just before changing to unlimited employment, former contract employee sues Hakuhodo;
• Number of mothers working goes over 70% for the first time;
• And more!
(Translated from Japanese)