• MHWL Employment Security Bureau director issues request regarding problematic acts by dispatch companies
• Regional disparities in minimum wage grow: 17 prefectures still under 800 yen per hour
• Side jobs may be exempted from upper limits: MHWL panel considers multiple proposals on overtime work hours
• Sum of working hours accepted and workers’ compensation granted in case of driver employed by two companies
• Newly-employed nurse commits suicide, her mother sues – government grants industrial-accident recognition, but hospital still gives no apology or compensation
• “Classroom instructors are workers”: Tokyo Labor Commission orders Kumon to bargain
• Equal pay: regular employees’ pay may be cut by 1-in-5 companies to “correcting disparities”
• Care facility fails to pay wages to foreign student claiming it was “volunteer work”
• Tokyo Marine plans to cut back discretionary labor from 2000 people to 500 to deal with risk of illegalities
• Nittsu to raise non-regular employees’ pay to same standard as regular staff
• Number of employed women breaks 30 million, but half of these are in non-regular employment with low pay
• Nissan to give wedding vacation and congratulation bonuses for same-sex and common-law marriages
• And more!
(Translated from Japanese)