Rengo's opinion is not sufficiently reflected: General Secretary comments on the Central Employment Security Council
(30 January 1998)

Rengo's General Secretary Mr. Sasamori announced his view on the report of the Central Employment Security Council concerning the basic principle of reviewing the employment agencies' system.

The report discussed the basic direction toward which the existing system should be reviewed in the view of ratifying the ILO convention concerning the Private Employment Agencies (No. 181), which was adopted in the 1997 ILO Conference. And the views of both workers' and employers' members are attached to the report due to the big gap in details.

In the part of "How Employment Agencies' System should be" the report does not clarify the nature and concept of a term "temporary", which does not appear in the existing law. Therefore, it may create a problem about the conformity with the existing law that allows a habitual dispatched worker. Furthermore, there may be misgivings about using repeatedly a temporary worker.

If the revision is based on the principle of stabilising employment opportunities, the first priority should be given to setting legislative measures with penalty to protect workers from illegal or inappropriate placement. In addition, the report should have discussed working conditions and protection of rights of dispatched workers employed through a complicated process, such as triangle relations. The report does not concretely addressed to various problems workers are now faced as pointed by the workers' members of the Council.

Rengo will make its effort to maintain the basic framework of the existing law and arrange protection measures for workers in the light of responding to the changing economic and social situation, securing the variety of the selection by workers and stabilising employment opportunities. To this end, Rengo will strengthen the cooperation between the workers' member in properly arranging provisions of the Law. It will seek of the ratification of the ILO Convention No. 181 in the view of improving working conditions and protecting the rights of dispatched workers, taking into account that the revision of the scope of businesses may have a great impact on Japanese employment practices.



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