Social Insurance Hotline Cards – Get Them and Share Them at si.genu.cc/SH-cards

Major changes in social insurance eligibility mean more workers can now enroll. As of October this year, workers doing 20+ hours weekly at companies with 51+ employees are eligible for shakai hoken (employee pension and health insurance). This follows previous expansions covering companies with 501+ employees (from 2016) and 101+ employees (from 2022).

The General Union continues to fight against employers who try to avoid enrolling eligible workers, whether through manipulating contracts, misclassifying employment status, or understating working hours. We’ve seen this at universities, English conversation schools like GABA and NOVA, and in the gig economy with services like Uber Eats.

To help workers understand their rights and check their eligibility, we’ve created Social Insurance Hotline cards. These cards provide access to:

• Direct consultation via hotline@genu.cc for specific social insurance issues
• Our social insurance questionnaire at genu.cc/shakaiQ (helping us gather data about immigrant workers’ enrollment)
• Collection of social insurance information at genu.cc/hotline

Want to help? Order cards our shakai hoken cards at si.genu.cc/SH-cards

• Share them at your workplace
• Distribute them to friends and colleagues
• Anyone can order and distribute these cards

Help us spread the word about social insurance rights – order your cards today!