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Temp Agencies Hand Control Of Day Labourers Back To Real Gangsters

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Temp Agencies Hand Control Of Day Labourers Back To Real Gangsters

Postby Mulboyne » Fri May 30, 2008 7:50 pm

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Asahi: Temp firms to shun day labor dispatch
Faced with political moves to tighten regulations, the temp staff industry will refrain from dispatching day laborers, a practice rapped as a hotbed of illegal practices and poor working conditions. The industry's decision is a key feature of a new set of voluntary guidelines released by the Japan Staffing Services Association on Wednesday. It is seen as a pre-emptive move to avoid tighter regulations on the industry that are being considered by both the ruling and opposition parties...Among the association's members are Goodwill Inc. and Fullcast Co., two leading companies suspended from operations due to illegal practices earlier. Goodwill...was also involved in a practice known as "double dispatch," in which day laborers sent to a client are then reassigned to a different firm. Such illegal practices have led to work accidents and injuries. Daily dispatch has also been criticized as a hotbed for the "working poor" because of its unstable working conditions...Whether the guidelines prove effective remains to be seen, as most of them only call for "efforts" from members, many of which originally opposed such voluntary rules. Both Goodwill and Fullcast have already cut down their day labor dispatch operations. There are also concerns that firms requiring day laborers may turn to services that do not belong to the association...more...
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Postby kusai Jijii » Fri May 30, 2008 7:54 pm

Sounds like the way Japanese daigaku are increasingly going about things!:shake:
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Postby Visitor K » Fri May 30, 2008 10:54 pm

the union that i was a member of (the freeter union) is a big part of the fight against goodwill, and i know from other member's experiences with the company that they were severely taking advantage of their workers..
one member was a peruvian delivery driver who logged 70-80 driving hours per week but with no overtime pay.. it seemed a lot of union activity in japan centers around FGs getting, well, fucked.
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Postby Samurai_Jerk » Sat May 31, 2008 9:50 am

Visitor K wrote:70-80 driving hours per week but with no overtime pay


80 hours a week no overtime sounds like most white collar workers. But driving that much definitely ain't safe.
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Postby Mulboyne » Tue Jun 03, 2008 6:56 pm

Asahi: Police arrest Goodwill officials over client's 'double dispatches'
Tokyo police arrested three officials of temp agency Goodwill Inc. on Tuesday over allegations they helped a client company "double dispatch" temp staff to work at potentially dangerous jobs at piers. The three included Taisuke Uemura, 37, a former manager in charge of the northern Kanto region and currently the business strategy section chief, and Toshihiro Nogami, 35, a former manager of the Event Shinjuku branch. Also arrested was Ryuichi Egawa, 47, a former executive of the client company, Towa Lease, a cargo firm. He is suspected of double dispatching Goodwill's temp workers to two cargo-handling companies, Sasadagumi and Taiyo Marine. Double dispatching involves a temp agency, like Goodwill, sending workers to a client company, which in turn sends the same employees to work at other companies. The practice is prohibited under the Employment Security Law because it makes it unclear who is responsible for the workers' safety.

Although the double dispatching practice is said to be rampant among temp agencies and their clients, the investigation into Goodwill, based in Tokyo's Minato Ward, is the first to develop into a criminal case. In addition, dispatching temp workers to dangerous jobs, such as cargo-handling work, is prohibited under the Temp Worker Dispatch Law. According to the Metropolitan Police Department, Towa Lease, also based in Minato Ward, does not have a license as a temp agency. However, Egawa dispatched five temp workers, hired from Goodwill, to Sasadagumi and Taiyo Marine at least 27 times from May 2006 to June 2007.

The five workers were obliged to work at piers at Tokyo Port under the instructions of Sasadagumi and Taiyo Marine, based in Yokohama and Tokyo's Minato Ward, respectively. Goodwill's three officials continued to dispatch temp workers to Towa Lease despite being aware that the workers would end up at different companies, the sources said. Uemura and Egawa have admitted to the allegations against them. However, Nogami and another Goodwill official said they were not aware of the double dispatches. The MPD also plans to investigate whether Goodwill's head office was involved. The MPD will also send papers to prosecutors on several executives of Sasadagumi and Taiyo Marine, and the companies themselves, including Goodwill. According to the Tokyo Labor Bureau, Goodwill dispatched 52 people to cargo-handling jobs at ports 1,240 times from October 2004 to June 2007.
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Postby Mulboyne » Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:18 pm

Yomiuri: Future unclear for dispatch workers / Management, labor at odds over plans to ban daily-paid temporary staff
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry still faces many hurdles with its plan to toughen regulations on temporary dispatch workers due to the gulf between the opinions of management and labor sides on toughening regulations. A ministry panel issued a report aimed at reversing the government's longtime policy of deregulating the dispatch worker system out of concern that the unstable working conditions that emerged as a result have led to social disorder. However, it remains uncertain whether the law on dispatch workers, which went into force in 1986, can be revised as planned in the next extraordinary Diet session. Through a subcommittee, the ministry's Labor Policy Council will resume debate on an expected revision to the Temporary Staffing Services Law on Wednesday after seven months without meeting.

The panel suspended its discussions because management and labor could not bridge the differences separating them. Many government officials fear that even after talks resume the two sides might be unable to resolve their differences. The current movement toward tougher regulation was prompted by a decision to order Goodwill Co. to discontinue its business due to illegal practices it engaged in when dispatching workers, and a recent indiscriminate stabbing rampage committed by a dispatch worker in the Akihabara district of central Tokyo. However, business leaders are calling for more deregulation in the daily-paid dispatch work industry. "A uniform ban on the dispatch of daily-paid workers may reduce job opportunities," Fujio Mitarai, chairman of the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren), said at a press conference on July 7.

The Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry also insisted that both employers and workers have certain needs with respect to daily-paid dispatch work. On July 10, the organization renewed its commitment to demanding further deregulation and the expansion of services for which dispatch workers are approved. But with the trend having switched back toward tougher regulation, labor organizations are determined to prevent any retreat toward deregulation at any cost. Nobuaki Koga, general secretary of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo), said Monday, "Rengo won't just limit itself to what's mentioned in the content of the [panel's] report--we'll make every possible effort to achieve a revision to the law that will improve the protection of workers."

Apparently due to this gap in opinions, the panel's report contains many ambiguous expressions, though it generally calls for tougher regulations in line with the labor side's demands. At the same time, the report includes, at the insistence of the management side, phrases such as "Employers also need short-term workers," and "There are many workers who choose these jobs [with short-term contracts]." Employers have voiced serious concerns about the planned ban on dispatching daily-paid workers. "Securing workers will be harder once Goodwill discontinues its business at the end of this month. If the dispatch of daily-paid workers is banned, we won't be able to secure enough workers," said an executive of a haulage company in the Kyushu region that has been using up to 50 daily-paid dispatch workers.

A senior official of Fullcast Co., a major agency for dispatching workers, also expressed concern. "A lot of people, many of them students, want short-term dispatch assignments. Some of our registered workers also have voiced concern about what will happen to their jobs. Our clients are also nonplussed," he said. Shuichiro Sekine, general secretary of Haken Union, a labor union for dispatch workers, said, "Daily-paid dispatch workers are unable to make ends meet from the day their jobs are no longer available, so I hope [the government will consider] not only toughening regulations, but also guaranteeing some minimum standard of living for them."


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The ruling and opposition parties have agreed to ban, in principle, the dispatch of daily-paid workers. But they disagree about whether to prohibit the dispatch of temporary staff who do not fall within 26 designated specialist skill categories. While the ruling parties are cautious about imposing a ban in such cases, the opposition camp insists the ban should apply to these workers, too. In the 20 years since the Temporary Staffing Services Law was enacted, the number of dispatch workers has skyrocketed about 22-fold to 3.21 million. In 2004, under the administration of then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who advocated drastic structural reforms, the maximum period companies were allowed to use the same dispatch workers was extended from a year to three years, except for the 26 designated categories. The dispatching of workers to manufacturing jobs was also liberalized. A Liberal Democratic Party member with labor industry connections said, "Shifting to tougher regulations is ultimately linked to a rejection of the structural reforms."

In recent years, however, the emergence of a large number of working poor and people reduced to spending nights in Internet cafes to help make ends meet is seen as a serious social problem, and most of these people have been found to be daily-paid dispatch workers. Therefore, the government has had no choice other than to shift toward a toughening of regulations. For their part, the opposition parties are split over how strictly to regulate workers dispatched by staffing agencies. The Japanese Communist Party, the Social Democratic Party and the People's New Party insist worker dispatching should be limited to certain designated jobs requiring special skills. However, the Democratic Party of Japan proposes the banning of general dispatch workers for periods of less than two months.
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