• “Q&A on the New Immigration System” published by Ministry of Justice;
• Overtime limit for doctors to be 1,860 hours per year, twice the “karoshi line”;
• Demotion and transfer for making accusations of sexual harassment is unfair: Tokyo Prefectural Labor Commission gives order;
• Unpaid overtime for 4,613 people at KDDI comes to light after employee suicide;
• At JAXA, suicide of Ibuki satellite controller recognized as due to overwork: 16-hour night shifts and “difficult-to-achieve quotas”;
• Ibaraki Prefecture explicitly bans discrimination against LGBT: amendment made to gender-equality ordinance;
• Childcare workers unable to take childcare leave;
• 90% of transgender people face difficulties in job-hunting;
• And more!
(Translated from Japanese)