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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; LABOR PAINS</title>
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		<title>Matahara: turning the clock back on women&#8217;s rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hifumi Okunuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both statutory and case law are crystal clear on the illegality of firings due to pregnancy. But the law is one thing; practice is quite another.]]></description>
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		<title>Union, business concerns put limits on freedom of speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hifumi Okunuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hot on the heels of their romp to victory in the race for control of the House of Councilors, the Liberal Democratic Party is chomping at the bit to overhaul the Constitution, which has not been amended since it was signed into law in 1946. The ruling party proposes gutting Article 9, which forever bans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unwritten perks can trump work rules, contracts, even laws</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/07/15/issues/unwritten-perks-can-trump-work-rules-contracts-even-laws/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=unwritten-perks-can-trump-work-rules-contracts-even-laws</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hifumi Okunuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a certain company, workers take their lunch break every day from 12 to 1 p.m. But just 10 minutes before noon, a small contingent of workers get up and leave the room. A few minutes later the fragrance of miso soup wafts in from the kitchen. Employees take turns making the soup for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why workers can no longer wear their demands on their sleeves</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/06/18/issues/why-workers-can-no-longer-wear-their-demands-on-their-sleeves/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=why-workers-can-no-longer-wear-their-demands-on-their-sleeves</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hifumi Okunuki</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[labor unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protests]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear reader, where are you from? To what era do you belong? I was born in 1971 in Japan and grew up here, too, but I&#8217;ve never &#8212; in all my years visiting hotels, restaurants, shops or government offices &#8212; seen workers wearing vests, armbands, badges, ribbons or bandanas with political messages. I&#8217;ve never seen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Precedent backs (nearly) equal pay for equal work</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/05/21/issues/precedent-backs-nearly-equal-pay-for-equal-work/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=precedent-backs-nearly-equal-pay-for-equal-work</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hifumi Okunuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2012, Japan had 51.73 million workers, of which 33.3 million were regular employees, or seishain, according to the latest survey by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. Contingent, or nonpermanent, workers (including part-timers, haken dispatch and shokutaku semiregular employees) numbered 18.43 million, over 35.5 percent of the workforce.]]></description>
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		<title>Employers&#8217; &#8216;box them in, drive them out&#8217; tactics fail legal test</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/04/16/how-tos/employers-box-them-in-drive-them-out-tactics-fail-legal-test/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=employers-box-them-in-drive-them-out-tactics-fail-legal-test</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hifumi Okunuki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Benesse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surely few employees would jump out of bed every morning, itching to start work at the "Department for Driving Them Out"? But what is an oidashi-beya? And what scary entities are to be driven out?]]></description>
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		<title>Labor law reform raises rather than relieves workers&#8217; worries</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/03/19/how-tos/labor-law-reform-raises-rather-than-relieves-workers-worries/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=labor-law-reform-raises-rather-than-relieves-workers-worries</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hifumi Okunuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new specter hangs over Japan: the specter of insecure employment. The source of this insecurity is the August 2012 reform of the Labor Contract Act related to fixed-term employment. ]]></description>
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		<title>Teachers are workers, not martyrs: the severance scandal that isn&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/02/19/how-tos/teachers-are-workers-not-martyrs-the-severance-scandal-that-isnt/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=teachers-are-workers-not-martyrs-the-severance-scandal-that-isnt</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hifumi Okunuki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment compensation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pension]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Severance package]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA['Teachers quitting before graduation?!' the headlines screamed as we headed into the new year.]]></description>
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		<title>AKB48: Unionize and take back your lost love lives</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/01/22/how-tos/akb48-unionize-and-take-back-your-lost-love-lives/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=akb48-unionize-and-take-back-your-lost-love-lives</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hifumi Okunuki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AKB48]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[They started performing on stages in Tokyo&#8217;s Akihabara electronics district, and today their ubiquity is unrivaled. The current flavors of the month pepper the TV schedules and covers of weekly magazines all year round. In Tokyo, you can&#8217;t swing a carrot without hitting a giant poster of one or a bunch of the all-grinning, all-dancing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When is an hour at work not a work hour?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/12/18/issues/when-is-an-hour-at-work-not-a-work-hour/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=when-is-an-hour-at-work-not-a-work-hour</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hifumi Okunuki</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It was 1988, in an ad for Regain energy drink. Actor Saburo Tokito, wearing a suit and carrying an attache case, asked a question that would go down in TV history: &#8220;Can I work 24 hours straight?&#8221; Japan was reveling in the go-go years of the bubble economy, its people sacrificing their health, families and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disciplinary measures must pass the &#8216;objective, rational&#8217; test</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/11/20/issues/disciplinary-measures-must-pass-the-objective-rational-test/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=disciplinary-measures-must-pass-the-objective-rational-test</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hifumi Okunuki</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Discipline&#8221; (ch&#333;kai) &#8212; a miserable word if there ever was one. Being scolded as a child is part of growing up, but for us adults, being disciplined can be a particularly humiliating experience. But how much more humiliated would we feel if the grounds for the discipline were arbitrary, unfair or out of proportion? Do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labor law protects expectant and new mothers &#8212; to a point</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hifumi Okunuki</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a labor consultation with a woman who said: &#8220;The other day I told my company I was pregnant. My boss asked me to quit because the firm can&#8217;t afford to give me time off. One of my coworkers once resigned before giving birth but I want to stay on. Do I have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Work-rules verdict jars with laws aimed at leveling playing field for employees</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/09/18/issues/work-rules-verdict-jars-with-laws-aimed-at-leveling-playing-field-for-employees/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=work-rules-verdict-jars-with-laws-aimed-at-leveling-playing-field-for-employees</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hifumi Okunuki</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We live our lives bound by rules. As a student, my teachers scolded me to comply with school regulations, which were Draconian by modern standards: &#8220;Skirt hems must reach down to within 5 cm above the knees,&#8221; &#8220;Boys must shave their heads&#8221; and other meaninglessly strict school regulations were the rule rather than the exception. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tepco liable for contract workers&#8217; safety in Fukushima</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/08/21/issues/tepco-liable-for-contract-workers-safety-in-fukushima/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=tepco-liable-for-contract-workers-safety-in-fukushima</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hifumi Okunuki</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Usually I spend New Year&#8217;s Eve eating New Year&#8217;s soba and go with my whole family to listen to the watch-night bell. But this year, I will spend Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 working. I will see the first sunrise of the year looking out over the sea driving along the highway toward the Fukushima [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Courts back workers&#8217; rock-solid right to strike</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/07/17/issues/courts-back-workers-rock-solid-right-to-strike/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=courts-back-workers-rock-solid-right-to-strike</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hifumi Okunuki</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Sensei, Japan is such a safe country because there are no strikes. Right?&#8221; A student at the university where I teach blindsided me with this remark the other day. The vast majority of Japanese under 30 have never even witnessed industrial action and imagine a strike as something equivalent to a riot. As a teacher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In &#8216;right-to-work&#8217; Japan, employees should also have the right to rest</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hifumi Okunuki</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the tagline for the 1991 film &#8220;City Slickers,&#8221; &#8220;All you need in life is love, courage and paid holidays.&#8221; Indeed, some of us may find meaning to our lives through single-minded devotion to our jobs, but without leisure time our bodies and minds would inevitably putter out. Taken to extremes, we may even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court knocks down discipline of mentally ill employee</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 00:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hifumi Okunuki</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Can a company discipline an employee for taking absence without leave if that worker could be suffering from mental illness? Just a few weeks ago, on April 27, the Supreme Court ruled against Hewlett-Packard Japan Ltd. in a case that posed precisely this question. The verdict illustrates the courts&#8217; thinking on a very modern ill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No legal cure-all for fixed-term job insecurity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hifumi Okunuki</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We like to think that work is about more than just making money, but the reality is that most of us have to work to earn our daily bread. A steady job is crucial for our long-term well-being. In Japan, employment contracts may be either open-ended or fixed-term. Temporary contracts are unregulated except for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A promise of employment is binding, Supreme Court ruled in late 1970s case</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hifumi Okunuki</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The coming of spring brings with it the sight of young women and men clad in black or navy suits, all carrying the same type of bag and sporting the most austere, no-nonsense hairdo and makeup, scurrying down the streets of metropolises around Japan. From a distance you&#8217;d be forgiven for thinking these youths are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oversleeping radio anchor set tough precedent for firing staff</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hifumi Okunuki</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A radio news anchor oversleeps a live broadcast twice, forcing the radio station to cancel the broadcast. Should he be fired? In the late 1970s, Japan&#8217;s Supreme Court weighed in. Case law on the legal principle of &#8220;abuse of the right to dismiss&#8221; (kaikoken rany&#333; h&#333;ri) was established by the famous Jan. 31, 1977 Supreme [...]]]></description>
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