- Part-time national public servants to receive same 3-day summer break as full-timers;
- MHWL releases “Results of Heisei 30 [2018] Labor Dispute Statistics Survey”;
- Yamanashi Gakuin University now a labor law-less “Wild West” by order of its president and chief director who is qualified as a lawyer;
- Illegal kickbacks for technical internships: supervisory group in Japan receives payment from dispatching organization;
- Benefits “denial to same-sex partners is discrimination”: Tokyo prefectural employees request measures;
- Nissan settles with union after “haken-giri” bargaining: Nissan admits employer responsibility;
- Dismissal of attendants at KLM “invalid”: labor tribunal grants switch to unlimited-term;
- Industrial-accident compensation approved in power-harassment case: company told them it was “a trial given by God”;
- Government’s new system to give non-regular staff a bonus, but where’s the funding? Municipalities feeling a sense of crisis;
- “Partnership Oath System” to begin on Sep. 2: Nagasaki City first in its prefecture to introduce the system;
- Prefectural schools in Ehime to eliminate “sex” field from next year’s entrance application forms;
- And more!
(Translated from Japanese)