Workplace for single mothers! ~ Child-rearing harassment lawsuit against Aeon subsidiary Claire’s

 A woman who has worked for Claire’s Nippon (100% subsidiary of Aeon), which imports and sells accessories, for 19 years suffered a salary reduction to 3.04 million yen from 5.68 million yen as a demotion. She has experienced harassment as a mother who was raising two young children three times in a year since May 2014. She sued the company for its mistreatment. “Women take up about 90 percent of the company’s workforce,” she said. “I filed the lawsuit because I wanted the company to offer a workplace where employees can comfortably work even while they get married, get pregnant and raise children. I hope this society grows out to be an encouraging, sustainable place for women to raise children.” (By SHIMIZU Naoko, Precariat Union) Photo = The lawsuit plaintiff in the middle and lawyers.

シングルマザーが働ける職場を！～イオンの子会社「クレアーズ日本」育児・ハラスメント裁判

 
アクセサリーの輸入・販売を行う、株式会社クレアーズ日本（イオンの１００％子会社） で、１９年間にわたって誠実に勤務してきた組合員が、出産後、２人の幼い子どもを育てながら就労中 の２０１４年５月からわずか１年の間に３回にわたって育児・ハラスメントとしての降格処分を受け、 年俸が５６８万円から約半額の３０４万円に減額されました。現在裁判中。組合員は、提訴について、 「女性が９割を占める会社で、一人でも多くの従業員が結婚、出産、育児をしながらも働き続ける会社 になってもらいたいという切なる思いからです。私たちの暮らすこの社会が、働く女性の子育てを応援 し、健全に存続してほしいと心から願っています。」と訴えました。（プレカリアートユニオン・清水 直子） 　
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Aeon subsidiary Amity implicated in teacher's suicide

 A labor standards office in Ishikawa Prefecture took an unusual move to determine that the suicide of an English-language instructor was caused by the extra work she was forced to do at home.The woman had sent e-mails to colleagues and acquaintances lamenting the extra work. She also wept in phone calls to her father about her workload.

  She later committed suicide by jumping from her condominium in Kanazawa in June 2011. She was 22 years old.Her father applied to the Kanazawa Labor Standards Inspection Office for recognition that his daughter’s death was caused by her job.
 However, since she had lived alone, the office could not readily determine how many hours she worked outside her workplace.So officials at the office performed the same work she did at home to find the extent of her burden, sources said Nov. 5.
 According to inspection office documents and lawyers who represented the woman’s father, the inspection office focused on 1,210 cards with letters and 1,175 cards with neat illustrations that she had created mainly at home during the two months since she joined Amity Corp., an operator of English conversation schools for children in various parts of Japan. Members of the inspection office created similar cards. They took 29 seconds to nine minutes and 26 seconds to make each card.
(General Union Website)
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