{"id":7968,"date":"2010-12-01T00:10:39","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T15:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=7968"},"modified":"2010-12-01T06:28:32","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T21:28:32","slug":"debito-org-podcast-december-1-2010-special-speech-by-neo-yamashita-of-ewa-osaka-labor-on-your-contract-labor-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=7968","title":{"rendered":"DEBITO.ORG PODCAST DECEMBER 1, 2010: SPECIAL: Speech by Neo Yamashita of EWA Osaka union on your contract labor rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0What follows is a recording the PALE SIG Forum, from our specialist group with in JALT concerned with issues of Professionalism, Administration, and Leadership in Education. \u00a0Ancient archives here, current website here.<\/p>\n

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\n DEBITO.ORG PODCAST DECEMBER 1, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

PALE SIG Forum: Labor relations in Japan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Context: General
\nContent area: Administration, Management, & Employment Issues
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From recruitment through retirement (or dismissal), labor laws, court precedents, and labor unions affect educational workers. Educational workers, especially non-Japanese, however, are not well informed or even misled about this. For example, though Westerners want written contracts, Japanese labor advocates recommend not signing contracts in some cases to protect employment rights. This recommendation is based on labor law and court precedents. Accordingly, labor unions play a more crucial role in protecting worker rights than some think.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Neo Yamashita, Vice Chair of the Education Workers and Amalgamated Union Osaka (EWA)<\/a>, gives us his decades of expertise on November 20, 2010. \u00a0Podcast listenable from here. 87 minutes. \u00a0No cuts.
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Neo Yamashita’s handouts from the day are downloadable from here (eight pages in English), so you can follow along with his speech.
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