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  2019.04.25

  • Revision to the labor laws and regulations

  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 the approaches that need to be taken to ensure Compliance here in Japan. There has been significant interest in the revised 36 Agreemen…

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  2019.04.02

  • Revision to the labor laws and regulations

  －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, for those workers who are granted 10 days or more of paid annual leave, it is now a requirement for the Employer to ensure that the wo…

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  2019.03.25

  • Revision to the labor laws and regulations

  – 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 will focus on “36 Kyotei with Special Provisions, coming into effect April 1, 2019” (hereinafter referred to as “36 Kyotei-SP”) It is b…

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  2019.03.15

  • Revision to the labor laws and regulations

  – 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 commence a public awareness campaign to highlight revised provisions in the Labor Standards Act and the Industrial Safety Act prior to the…

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  2018.07.26

  • Judicial decisions

  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 time we are going to look in more details at the Hamakyorex Case and the allowances that are part of salary. We will also look at thes…

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  2018.07.10

  • Judicial decisions

  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 retirement and fixed term workers), take cases all the way to the Supreme Court in Japan, claiming that they should be entitled to the same al…

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  2018.05.08

  • Judicial decisions

  Same Work Same Pay: A review of rulings

  In the ordinary Diet session, important key legislation is not being deliberated but instead the abnormal situation continues, however we have compiled the recent case rulings around the “Same Job Same Pay” which is a large part of the collectiv…

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  2018.04.02

  • Judicial decisions

  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 on not paying workers fairly, using the “Same Job Same Pay” principle regarding a number of allowances which were paid to full time empl…

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  2018.03.19

  • Labor administration: Trends

  Cabinet Secretariat Awards for Work Reform

  As each year goes by the Labour Standards Bureau is getting stricter and stricter on Companies around attendance tracking. As such there is not any additional news, but the Labour Standards Bureaus themselves are trying to be model employers and…

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  2018.02.20

  • Revision to the labor laws and regulations

  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 Prescription will become effective from April 1, 2020.The changes are with regards to general claims: i) Five (5) years from the ti…