I hope you find this interesting!!
my vlog this week will be about a worker from a staffing agency application sues a company for 14000yen for canceling his schedule for him to work for a short period of time. This might not sound mush of a problem and some people might think that this isn't worthy of being on the news, but the truth is that if the worker wins this case this ill mean that the total unpaid salaries from the past will sum up to 300 billion yen due to the plaintiffs lawyer.
I thought that this article was interesting because I think that many workers in the society don't care to look at their contracts, thinking that if the company tells me so it must not be illegal. This worker who was just a normal student working part time might impact the whole working society. I though that this workers ability to doubt something and even if its possible to do was something that more people need to do weather your a worker or not.
extras The MHLW which appears many times in this article is one of Japans central government ministries, responsible for protecting citizens ,livelihoods, health, and working environments.
Fujie, H. (2025, November 11). [First lawsuit over last-minute cancellation by restaurants in spot-work: What to know about when a labor contract is formed]. \ https://www.inshokuten.com/foodist/article/8121/
I'm looking forward to your posts on legal issues connected to the workplace and employment. Might I suggest that you do some research on transnational crimes that involve trafficking in labor. Some of the materials that were presented in class on Nov. 13th would be relevant. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) deals with trafficking in persons, which is often for forced labor under slave-like conditions or, at best, paid labor under poor conditions. Check out UN statistics and reports here: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/glotip.html .
返信削除This is an interesting article. If this young worker is successful in his lawsuit, the result may be minor for him but it could have huge repercussions in society as a whole. He may become a working man's (and women's) hero. I have a friend who is a labor union representative and I realized from talking to him that workers have much more power (and the law is much more on their side) than they think.
返信削除By the way, it's completely fine for you to use Japanese sources...and I would even encourage it. But, you'll find the correct way to cite sources that are in Japanese here: https://library.unimelb.edu.au/recite/referencing-styles/apa7/referencing-non-english-sources . You made a good attempt to create the citation, but the accepted method (using APA style) is somewhat different.