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Action Policies 2010-2011 |
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ACTION POLICY 3
Efforts for policies and systems toward establishing a reliable society
based on fairness and solidarity |
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Enhancement of economic measures to contribute to
an increase in domestic demand and the realization of a sustainable society
through job creation and employment maintenance |
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1. RENGO will help to achieve economic growth led by a recovery of consumption
and domestic demand through the shift in economic and fiscal policies represented
by the promotion of the Japanese Version of the Green New Deal Program that
realizes both environmental protection and economic growth, the elimination
of anxiety concerning employment, livelihoods and the future, the rectification
of disparities, and the revitalization of the local economy.
2. RENGO will promote its “Plan to Create 1.8 Million Jobs” and “Green
Job Strategy,” to realize the creation of new employment through maintaining
and stabilizing employment, and will prioritize measures and budgets in such
fields as the environment, healthcare, nursing care, welfare, education and
agriculture, forestry and fisheries. |
| Promotion of social inclusion by enhancing safety net
functions such as a social security program |
3. RENGO will ensure that all employed workers are
eligible for social insurance, and that new social safety nets, such as the
institutionalization of the job assistance and livelihood support benefits,
are established in conjunction with active employment measures through the
expansion of vocational training programs, housing guarantees, and the reform
of the welfare benefit system.
4. RENGO will address reforms of the pension system toward financing the
basic pension from tax revenues and unifying pension plans, as represented
by the unification of employee pensions.
5. RENGO will address comprehensive institutional reforms, such as revisions
of medical service fees and nursing care benefits, for the improvement
of the treatment and working conditions of workers, and the review of
staff assignment standards, while striving for improving and expanding systems
to provide healthcare, nursing care and welfare services.
6. RENGO will strengthen efforts for the enactment of the comprehensive “Law
to Ban Discrimination on the Grounds of Disabilities” (provisional
title) in order to guarantee the independence and full participation of persons
with disabilities in every field.
7. RENGO will verify, supplement and review its 21st Century Social Security
Vision. |
| Achievement of tax reforms for enhancing redistribution
functions and establishment of finance for supporting decentralization from
tax revenues |
8. RENGO will strive for the achievement of tax reforms
for enhancing income redistribution functions and the rectification of inequitable
taxation systems, such as income tax cuts for middle- and low-income earners,
stronger progressive taxation of incomes, strengthening of taxation on assets,
comprehensive taxation on incomes, an introduction of a taxpayer number identification
system, and consideration of tax deduction with benefits.
9. RENGO will strive for the establishment of finance from tax revenues
for supporting decentralization through a shift from the national to the
local level and a review of local tax allocation methods.
10. RENGO will verify its “2nd Tax Reform Outline” and formulate
a “3rd Tax Reform Outline.”
11. RENGO will continuously assist in the filing of final tax returns in
communities and workplaces. |
| Enhanced support for nurturing the next generation, the
realization of rectification of disparities and equal opportunity in education |
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12. RENGO will realize a unified system to nurture the next generation
through the creation of a Child Rearing Foundation that will generalize financial
support and child-care services in order to achieve a zero-waiting list for
nursery schools, reductions in child-care fees, and a larger child-care allowance.
13. RENGO will strive for increasing school expense subsidies and improving
public scholarship systems for low-income earners as well as sharply increasing
public defrayments for education expenses in order to rectify disparities
and promote equal opportunity in education.
14.RENGO will promote systematic labor education for thoroughly teaching
the dignity of labor and cultivating a meaningful view of work and a career,
and social education for teaching knowledge necessary for social participation
as an independent person. |
| Realization of a low-carbon society and promotion of
the RENGO Eco Life 21 Campaign |
15. RENGO will take necessary measures in each of the
governmental, industrial and civilian sectors toward the achievement of the
current targets of the Kyoto Protocol (reduction of greenhouse effect gas
emissions by 6% compared with the level of 1990), such as the improvement
of various relevant internal systems and policies, and credit for forests
and other carbon sinks.
16. RENGO will request that the Japanese Government play a role in building
a fair and equitable global framework (for the participation of all major
emitters, and money and technology transfer from developed to developing
nations) that works toward the realization of a medium- to long-term low-carbon
society.
17. RENGO will continuously strengthen its RENGO Eco Life 21 campaign
that focuses on “use of your own shopping bag” and “setting
air conditioners at 28°C and heaters at 20°C” as steps towards
a reconsideration of lifestyles. |
| Realization of democratic civil service reforms, such
as establishment of basic labor rights, and the establishment of new public
services |
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18. RENGO will establish a democratic civil service system, banning amakudari
(golden parachuting – moving to comfortable positions in industry or
independent organizations after retirement from the civil service) while
establishing basic labor rights for public servants through fundamental reforms
of industrial relations in the civil service.
19. RENGO will work to realize the provision of high-quality public services
supported by diverse providers and administrative reforms that truly focus
on people and residents through such means as thorough disclosures of administrative
information. |
| Nurture of and support for SMEs and local industries,
and revitalization of the local economy Measures for Occupational Safety and Health |
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20. RENGO will utilize job creation funds from prefectural governments
to enhance the nurture of and support for SMEs and local industries, as well
as creating local employment under the integrated efforts of the industrial,
governmental, academic, financial and labor sectors.
21. RENGO will utilize the Corporate Revitalization Support Platform for
maintaining and stabilizing employment and will support the revitalization
of SMEs and local industries based on discussions with trade unions. |
| Securement of safety and reliability of food and life |
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22. RENGO will promote and create jobs in agriculture, forestry and fisheries,
increases in consumption of domestic farm and marine products in order to
improve food self-sufficiency, and will strive for a reduction in disposal
and loss of food, as well as working toward the enactment of relevant laws
and systems necessary for securing food safety.
23.RENGO will work to increase the supply of public rented accommodation
and build a safety net concerning housing. RENGO will also promote natural
disaster prevention measures, such as the expansion of support for reinforcing
public facilities and houses against earthquakes. At the same time, RENGO
will work to maintain and secure the public transportation necessary for
citizens to move about, and will promote safe and reliable housing and town
management.
24. RENGO will strive for the integration of consumer administration so
that the Consumer Affairs Agency and the Consumer Commission, both inaugurated
in September 2009, can play their necessary roles. In addition, RENGO will
enhance remedies for victims, including compensation for assets and consumer
education, and expand and strengthen the functions of consumer advice centers
and administration toward consumers in the respective regions.
25. RENGO will request that countermeasures against the new influenza be
verified and that cooperation with national and local governments, corporations
and medical institutions be strengthened. It will address issues of improving
systems to develop and produce vaccines at an early stage. |
| Establishment of fair and equitable market rules, improvement
of legislation on corporations, and promotion of CSR |
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26. RENGO will strive for the strict administration of the Anti-Monopoly
Act and the Subcontracting Act as steps toward maintaining and improving
working conditions in SMEs and subcontractors. RENGO will strive for realizing
the basic law on public contracts and relevant bylaws in order to secure
fair working conditions and the quality of services in the public contracts.
27. RENGO will work to realize improvements in legislation on corporations
with the interests of diverse stakeholders and protection of workers being
incorporated.
28. RENGO will work to realize the development of legislation on corporate
acquisition rules, such as the formation of a Japanese version of the City
Code (ex-ante regulations for corporate takeovers).
29. RENGO will strive for cooperation with and promotion of international
labor movements and realization of the development and reinforcement of domestic
legislation toward the enhancement of global regulations and supervision focusing
on the disclosure of information on investment funds, the protection of workers
in investment destinations, and appropriate taxation.
30. RENGO will strengthen the influence of trade unions on the operation
of workers’ capital (reserves contributed by workers), such as pension
funds, and will avoid investment in anti-social and anti-labor funds. To
this end, RENGO will formulate a “Guideline for the Operation of Social
Pension Reserves” (provisional title) based on the Principles for Responsible
Investment of the United Nations.
31. RENGO will proactively address such social issues as the promotion
of CSR while cooperating with diverse stakeholders by use of the Multistakeholder
Forum on Social Responsibility for a Sustainable Future. |
i. The Green Job Strategy: A new concept on the environment,
employment and labor advocated by the ILO in June 2007, and based on the
idea that the enhancement and promotion of environmental measures lead to
industrial and economic development and the creation and expansion of job
opportunities.
ii. City Code: Voluntary regulations in the private sector on corporate
acquisition in the UK. The Code obligates those who intend to acquire
30% or more of a company’s shares to purchase all shares with cash
and describe business plans and programs for the hiring of employees
after acquisition.
iii. Workers’ capital: Assets such as pension reserves which are
contributed to by both workers and management.
iv. UN Principles for Responsible Investment: Advocated by the UN in 2006,
the Principles are a universal guideline reflecting issues of “environment,
society and corporate governance” (ESG) in the decision-making processes
of institutional investors. The principles consist of six principles, such
as requesting pension funds, investors, and the financial industry to incorporate
the ESG standards into their operational policies and to disclose their ESG
to investment destinations. |
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