Goodwill's Origuchi In Hot Water Again

[Mulboyne]

[floatr][/floatr]Bloomberg: Goodwill Says It May Face Business Suspension Order Next Year
Goodwill Group Inc., a Japanese staffing company whose shares have fallen 75 percent this year, announced it may face a business suspension order early next year involving the alleged illegal dispatch of workers. The Tokyo-based company was notified of the suspension order on Dec. 19 and given an opportunity to explain its position by Jan. 8 to the Tokyo Labor Bureau, a branch office of Japan's Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry, Goodwill said today in a statement through the Tokyo Stock Exchange's online service. All of the staffing company's 737 branches nationwide may be subject to the bureau's suspension order for as much as four months over the alleged job-placement practices, Goodwill spokesman Yohei Otsuka said today in a telephone interview. "We sincerely apologize to our clients, our registered staffers, people concerned and our shareholders," Goodwill said in the statement. Goodwill's home nursing care unit Comsn Inc. was also issued a notice by the bureau for allegedly misrepresenting the number of its health-care workers and receiving extra premiums for nursing-care insurance this year, Otsuka said.

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My wife worked for goodwill a couple of years ago and we had all sorts of problems. One of their idiot supervisors quit my wife's job "on her behalf" because she complained about someone at the company she was dispatched to.

Unlike the normal Japanese method of just rolling with the punches my wife put up a fuss so they sent two guys out to a neighborhood cafe near us to "talk" (read: convince) with her about how they should resolve (read: forget about) her problem and her claim to being owed two weeks notice.

I ended swinging by on my way home from work because she mailed me and I spent the next two hours yelling at them until they finally agreed she was entitled to two weeks notice or equivalent pay.