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Karōshi and reforms on labour policy in Japan were further brought into urgent attention following the suicide of 24-year-old Matsuri Takahashi on Christmas Day in 2015. [12] Takahashi was an employee at Dentsu , Japan's leading advertising agency, [ 13 ] and worked more than 100 hours overtime in the months prior to her death [ 14 ] —her ...
The Trade Union Law (労働組合法, roudou-kumiaihō) is a Japanese law. It was enacted on 1 June 1949 to provide the right for workers to organize in Japan . It has been translated as the "Trade Union Law" and "Labor Union Law".
The Labor Standards Act (労働基準法, roudou-kijunhou) is a Japanese law. It was enacted on 7 April 1947 to govern working conditions in Japan. According to Article 1 of the Act, its goal is to ensure that "Working conditions shall be those which should meet the needs of workers who live lives worthy of human beings." [1]
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A labour strike is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. This can include wildcat strikes , which are done without union authorisation, and slowdown strikes , where workers reduce their productivity while still carrying out minimal working duties.
Labour unions emerged in Japan in the second half of the Meiji period, after 1890, as the country underwent a period of rapid industrialization. [4] Until 1945, however, the labour movement remained weak, impeded by a lack of legal rights, [5] anti-union legislation, [4] management-organized factory councils, and political divisions between “cooperative” and radical unionists.
An unfair labor practice (不当労働行為, futouroudoukoui) is discrimination by an employer in Japan against a worker who is associated with a union, or refusal by an employer to negotiate with a trade union, or interference in the activities of a union.
Labor force participation rate (15-64 age) in Japan, by sex [2] Gender wage gap in OECD [7]. Japan is now facing a shortage of labor caused by two major demographic problems: a shrinking population because of a low fertility rate, which was 1.4 per woman in 2009, [8] and replacement of the postwar generation which is the biggest population range [9] who are now around retirement age.