http:\/\/www.apu.ac.jp\/home\/modules\/news\/article.php?storyid=431<\/a><\/p>\nIn relation to the demand for a preliminary injunction in order to
\npreserve the positions outlined in the employment contracts of former
\nfull-time Japanese language lecturers originally hired in April of
\n2002 and who had fulfilled their 4 year period of employment, the
\nOita District Court (presiding judge: KAMINO Taiichi) handed down its
\nverdict on November 30th, unequivocally dismissing the suit launched
\nby the former lecturers.<\/p>\n
The Court in its ruling confirmed that Ritsumeikan, in its efforts to
\nimprove language education at APU, was both reasonable and had cause
\nin abolishing the positions within the lecturer system in order to
\nplan for the creation of a new lecturer organization. As to whether
\nthe decision to halt the employment of the lecturers was fair and
\njust, the Court ruled that:<\/p>\n
1. There was no truth to the allegation that Ritsumeikan, at a
\nJapanese language workshop held in 1999, had indicated that it would
\nendeavor to allow full-time Japanese language lecturers to extend
\ntheir period of employment should they wish to do so.<\/p>\n
2. That it was possible to infer that expectations for a continuation
\nof employment stemmed from the 1999 Japanese language workshop, yet
\nthere was no reason for such expectations.<\/p>\n
3. That the employment contracts in question (for full-time
\nlecturers) outlined an employment period of 4 years (the period of
\nguaranteed employment), that the contracts provided a period of
\nemployment of 1 year, and that although this touched upon Article 14
\nof the former labor standards law, it was appropriate in this case.<\/p>\n
4. That in accordance with the completion of the period of
\nemployment, the decision to halt the employment of the former
\nlecturers did not constitute abuse of the right to dismissal.<\/b><\/p>\n
The Court acknowledged that the response of Ritsumeikan was fair, and
\nthus summarily rejected the former lecturers’ demand.<\/p>\n
December 2006
\nRitsumeikan Asia Pacific University Vice President
\nENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Asia Pacific University, a subsidiary of Ritsumeikan, in Oita, Kyushu, has announced on its home page its victory in the courts, regarding an injunction on the preservation of status launched by former full-time Japanese language lecturers. Nice bit of gloating. Sounds like a lovely place to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,16,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-education","category-labor-issues","category-lawsuits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}