Cardboard box makers in Japan are coming up with innovative designs to ameliorate corporate labor shortages and to improve delivery efficiency. Market leader Rengo Co. is displaying such products at its showroom in Saitama Prefecture, including boxes that are easily opened and double as actual ...
The government's proposed scheme to exempt certain employees from legal work-hour regulations needs to be scrutinized from the viewpoint of protecting workers' interests from labor abuse.
Rikio Kozu, head of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo), the nation's largest labor organization, will stay on for a second two-year term beginning in October, sources said Tuesday. Executives of labor unions under the confederation proposed that the 61-year-old incumbent continue as president, they ...
After fierce backlash, the Japanese Trade Union Confederation withdrew its endorsement of a controversial exemption proposed for white collar workers.
Japanese Trade Union Confederation President Rikio Kozu is expected to stay in his current post amid an internal row within the national labor organization, known as Rengo, over a government-planned revision to a law that would exempt highly paid specialist jobs from overtime regulations, ...
About 150 people gathered Wednesday outside the offices of the nation's largest labor federation to protest the government's contentious proposal of adopting merit-based pay for certain highly skilled workers. The Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) told Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last week that measures to ...
The country's largest labor union body urged authorities Thursday to add tougher overwork prevention measures when the government moves forward with plans to introduce a merit-based pay system for highly skilled jobs. Based on the request by the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, known as Rengo, ...
The government is pushing to force companies to give at least 104 days off per year to skilled professionals under an envisaged system to scrap working-hour limits, it was learned Tuesday. The obligation will be included in a planned agreement among top leaders of the ...
Keidanren and Rengo have agreed to limit monthly overtime to 100 hours during busy periods as Japan seeks to change its deep-rooted culture of working long hours.
Keidanren and the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) are expected to conclude their talks on introducing an overtime cap early next week, sources said Thursday. Keidanren, Japan's largest business lobby, and Rengo, the umbrella organization for labor unions in the country, have already agreed to ...
The Democratic Party is split on whether to move up its target for ending the nation's reliance on nuclear energy by a few years to 2030. The opposition party's leadership is facing resistance from its members and a key supporter, the Japanese Trade Union Confederation ...
Rikio Kozu, president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo), has stressed that the labor side will push for hikes in regular monthly wages in this year's shunto annual wage negotiations. While Japan's biggest business lobby, the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren), has said it will ...
