New law seeks better working conditions

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japantimesThe government will pursue new legislation next year to improve the work conditions of part-timers and temporary workers, according to a draft package obtained Thursday by Kyodo News. The initiative to address the lower layer of the widening economic disparity in Japan is one of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's key policy pledges. Read here... (http://search.japantimes.co .jp/cgi-bin/nb20061201a2.html)

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Basically this is good news to foreign workers.
Only a few foreign workers are working as regular workers. (Seishain)
Most of them are either part-time (arubaito) or temp staff. (Haken.)


I heard this is one of the government’s efforts to stop the declining birth rate.
Statistic show non-regular workers tend to marry late or can’t marry at all, thus contributing the declining birth rate.