- Employment adjustment subsidies top ¥1.5 trillion – government considers other sources of funding;
- Public servants’ bonuses cut for first time in 10 years, due to coronavirus effects;
- Corona-related: fired for moonlighting in nightlife job, woman to file for labor tribunal;
- Former limited-term Social Welfare Council staff members settle over dismissal: contracts canceled to avoid switch to unlimited-term;
- Former contract employees seeking severance pay have claim rejected: Supreme Court;
- Conditions for non-regular contract staff at post offices “illegal due to unreasonable disparity” as judged by Supreme Court;
- Coronavirus pandemic “speeds up the widening of the education gap”: of those with yearly income less than ¥4 million – three in ten have no computer or tablet;
- Number of non-regular workers higher than ever
- Opposition parties confer on non-regular workers
- Collection of signatures begins on petition for LGBT equality law: “a law as a legacy of the Tokyo Olympics”
- And more!
(Translated from Japanese)