• Teachers’ overtime limit of 45 hours per month: draft guideline for work-style reforms;
• Foreign workers’ industrial accidents: reporting of nationality and residence status to be made compulsory;
• Legislation to require companies to prevent pawahara: Labor Policy Council approves report;
• Amend the “Special Measures Act” that makes teachers work long hours: petition submitted with 32,500 signatures of active-duty teachers and others;
• Finance Ministry nominated for 2018 “Black Companies” Award;
• Union Mie files grievance at Mie Prefectural Labor Commission over Sharp layoffs;
• Tokyo Superior Court verdict increases compensation amount in Japan Post non-regular workers’ disparity suit;
• “Is my work not worth paying overtime?” Public school teachers’ appeal;
• And more!
(Translated from Japanese)