Nearly 3,000 foreign workers dispatched to a Sharp Corp. plant in Mie Prefecture have apparently had their contracts terminated, according to a labor union.
The massive reduction of contract workers on the back of a cut in display panel production comes at a time when the government is seeking to revise the immigration law and accept more foreign blue-collar workers into Japan amid opposition parties' fierce protests.
About 3,000 foreign workers were hired by a group of about 10 Sharp subcontractors in Mie and were dispatched to the plant in Kameyama.