The Present Situation and Issues of the Labour Relations Commission System  

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Suwa, Yasuo

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Japan Labor Review vol. 12 no. 4 (2015), page 23-36.
Topik: Labour Relations Commissions; LRCs

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1946, the system of Labour Relations Commissions (LRCs) was introduced in Japan. LRC members are divided equally among those repr esenting the public interest, workers and employers, respectively, with a Secretariat to assist in administration. Each of Japan’s 47 prefec tures has its own LRC, with a Central Labour Relations Commission in Tokyo, making a total of 48 LRCs. These exercise their various powers as i ndependent administrative agencies. The main duties of LRCs are threefold. They consist of (i) issuing ad- ministrative orders to provide relief for labor unions and workers from unfair labor practices committed by employers so as to protect the right to organize, (ii) handling or “adjusting” collective labor disputes arising between labor un- ions and employers or employers’ groups by means of conciliation, mediation and arbitration procedures, and (iii) conc iliating individual la bor disputes aris- ing between individual workers and empl oyers, regardless of whether a labor union is involved or not. The functions of (i) and (ii) are handled by all LRCs, while (iii) is provided by LRCs in 44 prefectures. The LRC system has made a huge cont ribution to the formation of in- dustrial relations and labor practices in Japan since World War II. Today, however, both the industrial structure an d the labor market have changed, the organization rate of labor unions is in gradual decline, and collective industrial disputes have also decreased in number. In view of this, continuous efforts are being made to improve the LRC system an d review its deployment, in order to identify how the system should be maintained and developed in future.

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