In the article ‘I feel disposable’: Thousands of scientists’ jobs at risk in Japan, about universities terminating workers on fixed-term contracts, Tozen organiser Louis Carlet was interviewed and gave an explanation on how universities have responded to the 5/10-year rule.
Read the full article here
Many laud Article 8 of the brand new Part-time/Fixed-term Employment Act as Japan finally recognizing the principle of same-work-same-pay. But one word in that article gave me pause: unreasonable.
The Part-time/Fixed-term Employment Act (enacted in April 2020 for regular firms and small businesses a year later), prohibits unreasonable treatment of employees on regular and irregular/contingent contracts. Article 8 stipulates, “The employer must not create a disparity that could be deemed unreasonable between the base pay, bonus and other conditions of short-term/fixed-term employees and ordinary employees, with due consideration to what could be deemed appropriate in light of the nature and purpose of the compensation as well as the details of the operations the worker is involved, the degree of corresponding responsibility, the details of the work duties, the potential for job changes of the two groups of employees and other circumstances. (Emphasis mine.)”
Disparities between contingent and regular employees are forbidden if they are unreasonable. Does that mean that reasonable disparities are fine? Let’s see what the courts are up to on this front.
Our campaign to improve working conditions at Interac is important not just for ALTs , but for students and Japan’s education system. In addition, this has now become a campaign to defend our right to strike at Interac.
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Le président du syndicat Tozen UPL poursuit le Lycée Français de Tokyo… une nouvelle fois
Le lundi 9 mai 2022, le président du Tozen-UPL a déposé pour la deuxième fois une plainte pour salaires impayés contre le Lycée Français de Tokyo et ce, ainsi qu’une demande de dommages et intérêts pour traitement discriminatoire.
Pour ceux qui ont suivi l’affaire, le tribunal du travail a statué en faveur de M. Alam en octobre dernier, et dans le même temps, a informé la direction qu’elle devait adhérer à la loi japonaise.
On aurait pu penser que les choses se seraient arrêtées là. Malheureusement non. La proviseurse, Mme Anne-Laure Campels, a doublé la mise en choisissant d’ignorer la loi et en continuant à refuser de payer le travail effectué en dehors des heures de travail contractuelles.
La première audience est fixée au jeudi 23 juin 2022 à 10h00.
Tozen’s Louis Carlet delves into different types of Labour contracts, and discusses their pros and cons.
講師: ルイス・カーレットとオレン・フランクハム
Presented by Louis Carlet and Orren Frankham
東ゼン労組の組合員は東部労組の反戦メーデーデモに参加しました。
Tozen members attended Tobu Rosou’s Anti-War May Day demonstration.
最近、世界中のアップルリテールスタッフは労働者の団結権を行使しています。2014年から日本でアップルジャパンの社員は全国一般東京ゼネラルユニオン(東ゼン労組)の支部を結成しました。労働者は経営者と団体交渉しています。組合に加盟して、組合員の仲間と一緒に経営側と交渉することによってアップルジャパンの職場をより良くしましょう。
アップルジャパンの従業員が結成された組合の正式名は：
The official name of the union established by Apple retail workers is:
全国一般東京ゼネラルユニオンアップルジャパン支部
Zenkoku Ippan Tokyo General Union Apple Japan Local
組合の通称は:
Our nickname is:
アップルジャパンホームインポルーブメントチーム（家の修繕チーム）
Apple Japan’s Home Improvement Team
支部は東ゼン労組に所属しています。
Our local is part of Tozen Union.
正式に東ゼン労組は、連合東京に加盟しています。
Tozen Union is officially a part of Rengo Tokyo.
なお、AppleTogetherという世界の連帯組合組織にも加盟しています。
ご興味のあるスタッフ（AHAも修理デポも含み）を募集しております。詳しくは
apple@tozenunion.org
に気軽にご連絡下さい。
現在の要求（2022年)
Current demands for 2022
On March 30, 2022, NHK Web News ran a story on how women driven to financial hardship due to the corona pandemic are increasingly turning to sex work. (https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20220330/k10013558231000.html)
The report notes that sex workers’ “growing presence in busy urban neighborhoods has spurred police to take enforcement action but also to assign case officers to provide support and to accompany the arrested women to life consultant centers run by local governments.” The cops have begun to provide support for the women’s futures from a social welfare perspective, rather than just cracking down.
On Monday 18 April 2022, Tozen Union and its local chapter Tozen UPL filed an unfair labour practice case against Lycée Francais International de Tokyo at the Labour commission in Shinjuku, Tokyo, for refusal to negotiate as required by law.
2022年４月18日、東ゼン労組並びに東ゼン労組国際フランス学園現地雇用職員連合は、新宿にある東京都労働委員会に、学校法人東京国際フランス学園に対し、団交拒否という不当労働行為の救済を申し立てました。
Le lundi 18 avril 2022, le syndicat Tozen, et sa branche UPL-Tozen ont déposé une plainte pour pratique déloyale de travail contre le Lycée Français International de Tokyo auprès de la commission du travail à Shinjuku, Tokyo. La raison.
In August 2018 at the age of 19, Le Thi Thuy Linh arrived in Japan to work as a jisshusei intern. Each day, she handled agricultural wastewater at a tangerine orchard in Kumamoto Prefecture. Japan’s rapidly ageing population has created a dearth of agricultural workers, forcing farmers to turn to young foreign interns like Linh to maintain their farms.