Gather Worker's Real Opinions to Enrich Job Measures
National Hotline & Survey
(26 October 2001)
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Photo:Consultations come in one after another. (RENGO Headquarters)
Job circumstances have continued to deteriorate with the unemployment rate breaking the 5% mark. Amidst this, RENGO has deployed concentrated actions to materialize emergency employment measures. RENGO is gathering the real opinions of people across the nation who are worried over job problems by conducting its "national survey for enriching government employment measures" and establishing an "employment consultation hotline" and "employment open forum (on RENGO's homepage)." These actions are being conducted to better understand the real situation of unemployed workers and to make more practical recommendations and demands of the government. RENGO headquarters' hotline received approximately 450 calls earnestly seeking consultation during October 22-26.

RENGO headquarters and all local RENGO changed their regular "hotlines" to an "employment consultation hotline" for one week to understand the worries of the unemployed. RENGO headquarters installed extra phone lines in order to accommodate increased consultations. Questions came in one after another from either workers or their families regarding issues from dismissal and corporate restructuring to unpaid wages, employment insurance, payment of retirement funds, and reemployment. Counselors were able to better grasp the real situation of anxiety over employment that prevails nationwide.
Since October 22, RENGO established an "employment open forum" on its homepage at http://www.jtuc-rengo.or.jp where numerous opinions, requests and questions have been raised, just like at the consultation hotline, indicating the intense level of anxiety over this problem.
Furthermore, RENGO has also been working on a questionnaire drive in front of each Hello Work (public employment agency) office throughout Japan and is scheduled to collect interview surveys from 10,000 people by the end of October.
The results from these concentrated activities will be incorporated into future demands to the government and political parties as well as utilized in media campaigns to enrich job measures.

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