Evidence-Based Debate on Dismissal Regulation

JILPTの英語版サイトに、私の「Evidence-Based Debate on Dismissal Regulation」がアップされました。

http://www.jil.go.jp/english/researcheye/bn/RE001.htm

中身は労働局あっせん事案の分析結果の解説ですが、日本の雇用終了について英文で簡単に説明する際に使えるかも知れません。

Between FY2009 and FY2011, the Department  of Industrial Relations of the Japan Institute for Labour Policy  and Training (JILPT) conducted “Analysis on  the Content of Cases Processed in Individual Labour Disputes” as a project  research. Specifically, cases of conciliation brought to Prefectural Labour  Bureaus on individual labour disputes related to dismissal, bullying, and  others were analyzed in detail and compiled in a report. One motivation for  starting this research was my intellectual curiosity, wanting to know the  content of unpublished conciliation cases. However, another important driving  factor was a following statement in the “Three-Year Program for Promoting  Regulatory Reform (2nd revision)” decided by the Cabinet in March 2009: “As it  is one of the regulatory mechanisms surrounding Japan’s labour market,  dismissal regulation will be analyzed as far as possible using methods that can  withstand scholarly scrutiny, referring to empirical research, economic theory  and others. The results will be fully disclosed to the public and reflected in  the approach to dismissal regulation.” In response to this, the Labour  Standards Bureau of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare requested JILPT to  conduct empirical research on the role played by dismissal regulation in the  real world, “without bias towards economic theory but rooted in actual  realities.” As a result, we started this research.・・・・・・

・・・・・・・Although some of the contents of  individual cases are very interesting, they are not mentioned here due to lack  of space. Readers are invited to take a look at our reports mentioned above,  which should certainly convey the real picture of Japanese workplaces,  completely different from what is imagined from judicial precedents in the casebook.