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2013 October 23 - 29 [JCP]

JCP holds series of talks with business groups seeking to enact anti-black corporation law

The Japanese Communist Party had a series of talks with business groups while seeking to have its bill to regulate so-called “black corporations” which use workers as disposable labor enacted.

Members of the JCP Osaka Prefectural Committee on October 23 visited the Kansai Business Federation, the Kansai Association of Corporate Executives, and the Osaka Chamber of Commerce to explain the bill the party submitted on October 15 to the Diet.

At the meeting with the Kansai Business Federation, JCP Prefectural Committee Vice Chair Shimizu Tadashi said that the bill aims to regulate excessively long working hours, oblige companies to disclose the labor turnover rate, and ban power harassments in workplaces. He called on the business group for its support to establish rules for decent working conditions.

An official of the federation in reply said, “I agree with your argument that the establishment of such rules will also contribute to the sustainable growth of companies.”

On the same day in Tokyo, JCP members of the House of Councilors Yamashita Yoshiki and Kira Yoshiko met with lawyer Sasaki Ryo who heads a lawyers group for victims of black corporations. The two JCP lawmakers are also members of the party’s task force on this labor problem.

Yamashita said, “We drew up the bill based on data collected through your struggle.” Saying, “This is a well-thought out bill,” Sasaki praised a stipulation in the bill that obliges employers to give their employees at least an 11-hour break from work before starting the next work shift.

Past related article
> JCP forms task force for elimination of ‘black corporations’ [August 8, 2013]