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The Human Rights Scores Dataverse ranked Japan somewhere in the middle among G7 countries on its human rights performance, below Germany and Canada and above the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and the United States. [1] The Fragile States Index ranked Japan second last in the G7 after the United States on its "Human Rights and Rule of Law" sub ...
In response to a case bought by the Japan Airlines Cabin Crew Union on November 4, 2009, the Tokyo Labor Commission ruled that wage and employment discrimination against union members was an unfair labor practice. It ordered JAL to apologize and end the discrimination.
Since 2008, part-time workers have a right to equal treatment with full-time workers if they have contracts for indefinite duration. If part-time workers have a fixed-term contract, there is no right to equal treatment. Case law has stated that different redundancy payments between regular workers and others are potentially justifiable.
The Labor Standards Act (労働基準法, roudou-kijunhou) is a Japanese law.It was enacted on 7 April 1947 to govern working conditions in Japan. According to Article 1 of the Act, its goal is to ensure that "Working conditions shall be those which should meet the needs of workers who live lives worthy of human beings."
Racism in Japan (人種主義, jinshushugi) comprises negative attitudes and views on race or ethnicity which are held by various people and groups in Japan, and have been reflected in discriminatory laws, practices and action (including violence) at various times in the history of Japan against racial or ethnic groups.
Labour unions emerged in Japan in the second half of the Meiji period, after 1890, as the country underwent a period of rapid industrialization. [4] Until 1945, however, the labour movement remained weak, impeded by a lack of legal rights, [5] anti-union legislation, [4] management-organized factory councils, and political divisions between “cooperative” and radical unionists.
Japan has criminalized online insults, making cyberbullying punishable by up to a year in prison, extending the statute of limitations and amplifying the fine, in the wake of a reality star's suicide.
The Act on Ensuring Equal Opportunities for and Treatment of Men and Women in Employment (Japanese: 雇用の分野における男女の均等な機会及び待遇の確保等に関する法律), commonly known as the Equal Employment Opportunity Law (Japanese: 男女雇用機会均等法), is a Japanese labor law, passed in May 1985 and implemented in April 1986, [1] designed to implement an ...