In a victory for contract workers, the Tokyo district court rules that Japan Post must compensate those denied allowances given to full-time employees who performed the same work.
Whether to give nonregular workers permanent status has bedeviled companies and employees alike, especially with the end of a five-year waiting period on a labor law revision looming in less than a year.
Most nonregular workers are unaware of a new rule that enables them to work until mandatory retirement age after spending five years at the same company, an online survey has shown. The rule, included in the revised labor contract law that was enacted in April ...
The government plans to draw up by the end of this year guidelines aimed at increasing wages of nonregular workers to some 80 percent of those of regular employees, sources have said. It aims to submit necessary legislation to give legal backing to the guidelines ...
When more than 5,000 nonregular workers at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ were allowed to join its labor union, it marked a first for nonregular workers at a major Japanese bank.
Temporary and part-time workers now account for a record-high 38.2 percent of the labor force, reflecting a significant shift in the working environment.
