The Process of Formulating Policy in Labor Matters: Derailment? Or Transformation?  

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Nakamura, Keisuke

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Japan Labor Review vol. 6 no. 2 (2009), page 76.
Topik: Japan; The Labour Policy Council; Workers; Labor Policy
Fulltext: JLR22_nakamura.pdf (317.94KB)

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In this paper, I discuss the fact that a gradual change may be occurring in the way in which labor policy is formulated in Japan. The Labour Policy Council, a tripartite body established by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW), has played a central role in the formation of labor policy in Japan. However, reading through the minutes of 2005-2006 meetings of the Council’s Work Conditions Subcommittee has led me to the conclusion that there is a possibility the Council’s function might be weakening from the inside. The survey conducted revealed four developments at these meetings: an expressed concern about the establishment of a Study Group consisting of experts, shelving of the Study Group’s report, opposition expressed by both union and employer group representatives to a draft of a Response made by the MHLW, and the Response with objections from both groups. It seems that these developments show that both unions and employers lose faith in the experts, and moreover do not engage in serious and substantive debate with each other. As a result, both groups may have come to down-grade the importance of the Policy Council and up-grade that of parliamentary lobbying.

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