• Aiming to prevent non-enrollment, Japan Finance Corporation and Okinawa Finance Corporation to make Shakai Hoken a condition for financing;
• MHLW releases pamphlet on “‘Equal Pay for Equal Work’ for Dispatch Workers”;
• “Double work” on the rise – industrial-accident recognition at only one company may sharply reduce lost-wage benefits;
• MHLW underpaid 19.73 million people a total of over 50 billion yen;
• Insurance agencies deduct expenses from wages – former salespeople file suit one after another across the country;
• No more pre-start greeting” – private high-school teachers strike;
• Nearly 70% say they “intend to work even after 60”;
• One after another, various places move to accept sexual diversity;
• And more!
(Translated from Japanese)