Victorious reconciliation! “Only-in-name managers” lawsuit against staffing company “Goodwill”

On October 5, 2010, the Tokyo Young Contingent Workers' Union held a press conference on a victorious reconciliation in a lawsuit against a major staffing company Goodwill at the press club of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. The seventeen plaintiffs demanded the company pay unpaid wages including overtime (Goodwill disbanded during the lawsuit), and a reconciliation was reached in the lawsuit on the payment of settlement money to all of the plaintiffs on September 29 at Civil Affairs Section 11, the Tokyo District Court. The amount of the settlement was acceptable for all of them. Goodwill insisted that the plaintiffs who were branch managers “fall under the category of supervisors in terms of the Labor Standards Act and have no back wages”. However, the settlement amount reflected hours worked that were calculated based on evidence brought by the plaintiffs to a certain extent. (Takeda Atsushi)

人材派遣会社グッドウィル「名ばかり管理職」裁判、勝利和解へ！
10月5日、厚生労働省記者クラブにおいて首都圏青年ユニオンより裁判勝利和解の記者会見が行なわれた。大手人材派遣会社であった株式会社グッドウィル(裁判途中で解散)に対して、残業代含む未払賃金を求めた訴訟であったが、原告ら17名の全員への解決金支払いによる和解が、先月9月29日に東京地裁民事11部で成立した。解決水準は原告全員が納得いく水準であった。グッドウィルは支店長であった原告らを「労基法上の管理監督者にあたり、未払賃金はない」としたが、解決金の水準にあたっては原告らが証拠を持って算出した労働時間を一定踏まえたものであった。（武田敦）