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Changes to the Labor and Industrial Safety Acts – Part 1 Understanding Working Hours

The changes to the Labor and related Laws that were effective April 1 has seen increased consultations around …
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-Revised Labor Standards Act – Annual Leave

With regards to the changes to the Labor Law regarding paid annual leave, if you are to summarise it would be,…
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– Revised Labor Standards Act / Revised Industrial Safety Act – 36 Kyotei Administration Part 2 (Special Provisions)

The previous PMP newsletter covered the changes to the administration of 36 Kyotei. In this newsletter, we wil…
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– Revised Labor Standards Act / Revised Industrial Safety Act – 36 Kyotei Administration Part 1 (excluding “special provisions”)

An executive member of the Japan Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) advised us that on March 6, Rengo would com…
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Nagasawa Transportation and Hamkyorex Supreme Court Rulings 2/3 Hamakyorex Case

As in part 1 of this series of 3 we look at the rulings handed down on June 1 around “Same Job Same Pay.” This…
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Nagasawa Transportation and Hamakyorex Supreme Court Rulings: 1/3 The Nagasawa Transportation Case

Two  transportation companies in Japan have had their non-full time employees (both rehired after retirem…
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Same Work Same Pay: A review of rulings

In the ordinary Diet session, important key legislation is not being deliberated but instead the abnormal situ…
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Same Job Same Pay – Japan Post Update Additional Osaka rulings

As we have previously informed, last autumn in the Tokyo District Court the Japan Post Office was challenged o…
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Cabinet Secretariat Awards for Work Reform

As each year goes by the Labour Standards Bureau is getting stricter and stricter on Companies around attendan…
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Revision to the Civil Code – Short-term Extinctive Prescription

In accordance the revisions to the Civil Code that were agreed last year, changes to the Short-term Extinctive…
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