In this nation, recently, non-regular employment is rapidly expanding under a non-liberal view that in any industry, the flexibility of labor supply and demand should be guaranteed. The view takes an assumption that individuals exert their ability bet...
In this nation, recently, non-regular employment is rapidly expanding under a non-liberal view that in any industry, the flexibility of labor supply and demand should be guaranteed. The view takes an assumption that individuals exert their ability better when under limitless competition rather than when permanently employed.
There are very serious problems related to non-regular employment in this nation. Such problems may influence not only non-regular workers' basic labor rights or right of existence, but also regular workers' employment.
Most of the existing laws and regulations including the Labor Standard Act focus on regular work and do not protect non-regular work, apparently discriminating regular and non-regular workers Such laws and regulations should be now changed to reflect many different types of employment, ensure balance between interests of employees and employers and further raise business competitiveness and all workers' benefit.
To make ensure that all workers enjoy labor welfare equally, it is first required that the Labor Standard Act provides a comprehensive definition of workers. Other labor-related laws and regulations need to contain minimum exceptional provisions in accordance with the Labor Standard Act. The social insurance law should be rearranged to have all employees insured. To minimize businesses' financial burden, in addition, social insurance cost needs to be equally borne by waged and self-business workers. Furthermore, existing social insurance rates should be adjusted, not beyond the current size of social insurance finance.