『Japan Labor Issues』10-11月号

JILPTの英文誌『Japan Labor Issues』10-11月号がアップされました。

https://www.jil.go.jp/english/jli/documents/2021/034-00.pdf

Trends:MHLW's Guidelines for Promoting and Establishing High-quality Telework 

Research:Wage Compensation during Leave in the COVID-19 Crisis and Its Impacts on Workers' Careers TAKAHASHI Koji

Judgments and Orders:Illegality of the Disparity in Working Conditions between Hourly Paid Fixed-term Contract Employees and Monthly Paid Regular Employees　The Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University (former Osaka Medical University) Case ZHONG Qi

Series: Japan's Employment System and Public Policy　Labor Unions in Japan OH, Hak-Soo

冒頭、テレワークガイドラインの解説があり、その後高橋康二さんのコロナ休業時の賃金補償の論文（邦文はJILPTのリサーチアイに）、仲琦さんの大阪医科薬科大学事件の判例評釈、呉学殊さんの労働組合論が並んでいます。

このうち、呉さんのは、現状を淡々と紹介するにとどまらず、特に最後の節で、他の先進諸国と比べて日本だけが賃金上昇していないことを取り上げ、こう問いかけます。

Why does Japan have the lowest wages among the G7 nations, and why has it  also been overtaken by South Korea? What kinds of changes do Japanese labor unions need to make to their approaches to the spring wage offensive in order to increase their capacity to negotiate wage increases? To what extent are enterprise unions as an organizational form effective in raising the capacity to negotiate?