Recent Trends in Labour Market Regulations  

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Mizushima, Ikuko

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Japan Labor Review vol. 1 no. 4 (2004), page 6-26.
Topik: labour market; labour market; regulations
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Japan’s unemployment rate in January 2004 was five percent. In the previous month, it had dipped below the five percent mark for the first time in two and a half years. However, the number of people unemployed seems to be on the decline, and it has been mooted that the economy is showing signs of improvement. There are some trends that support that outlook. For example, the national consumer price index has been showing positive trends, and the effective job opening ratio is rising in certain localities. Nevertheless, it is still too early to say that the outlook for the future has changed for the better. The economic recession in Japan has persisted for over a decade, since the beginning of the Heisei era (it has hence been dubbed the “Heisei recession”). The recession has affected the labour market as well, and, as has been noted, the labour market became increasing fluid and diversified in the 1990s on the heels of the collapse of the “bubble economy.” With revisions to the Employment Security Law and the Worker Dispatching Law, use of the external labour market has become even more extensive, a trend that can be attributed to the behaviour of Japanese workers who no longer insist (nor can afford to insist) on long - term and regular employment and employers who are increasingly preoccupied with the goal of achieving rational and efficient management. In response to these developments, the 156th Diet passed legislation for Partially Revising the Employment Security Law and the Law for Securing the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Undertakings and Improved Working Conditions for Dispatched Workers in 2003, which revised sections of the Employment Security Law, the Worker Dispatching Law, and other related laws. These revised laws went into effect in March 2004. This article will provide an overview of the latest revisions of the Employment Security Law and Worker Dispatching Law, and discuss potential legal issues arising from the revised Worker Dispatching Law.

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