Cry for improvement in working conditions! ~Bill shows regression in Labor Policy

 

 On March 7, the government approved a bill to revise the National Public Service Act and Local Autonomy Act in a cabinet meeting and submitted the bill in the Diet. If the bill is approved in the ordinary session, a new system will be enacted in April 2020.

 Under the newly revised bill, the appointed officials in a fiscal year will constitute a newly unified system for what each municipality used to employ discretely temporary staff, part-time workers for special positions or part-time regular local government officials. According to the revision, wages and benefits are adjusted and regulated. However, rather than working conditions of casual workers have improved, it’s become clear that this revision takes a change for the worse as the gap widens and will be entrenched. It is far from being equal pay for equal work amidst the number of non-permanent public workers rising to 640,000, which shows one in every three public workers (according to the research conducted by the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry).                                                 

  Before deliberation, we held a rally to appeal to the parliamentarians about the problems of the bill and what negative effects it exerts. (By SHIRAISHI Takashi)

 Photo: Study session on the Bill held on April 3rd.

民間よりさらにひどい！格差の固定化～「非正規公務 員の処遇改善法案」で院内集

会

政府は3月7日、地方公務員法及び地方自治法の改正 案を閣議決定し、上程した。通

常国会で成立すれば3年後の2020 年4月から新制度がスタートする。地公法改正案の

ポイントは、 「臨時職員」「特別職非常勤職員」 「一般職非常勤職員」という よ

うに自治体ごとにばらばらで、制度 の趣旨に合わない不適正な 採用実態だったもの

を、「会計年度任用 職員」を新設し、統一す るというもの。自治法改正案では、会

計年 度任用職員に支払う給 与、手当などを整理、規定した。しかし、この法改正に

よって地 方自治体で働く職員の3人に1人、総務省調査で64万人にまでなっ た非正規

公務員の処遇が改善するどころか、同一労働同一賃金とは 程遠い格差が固定化され

る改悪となることが明らかになった。そ こで、審議入り前に国会議員へ改正案の問

題点と当事者にどのよう な悪影響がもたらされるかをアピールするための院内研究

集会を 開催した。（白石孝） 報告　

＊写真＝4.3院内研究集会（参議院会館）

Angry workers sit in at Tokyo District Court demanding an end to discrimination against non-regular employees

 

Angry workers wearing “Hats of burning anger” with a massage, “Flower (or dignity) to non-regular employees!” appeared for the first time in front of the Tokyo District Court on Dec. 12. They represented the voices of casual workers’ fury of not receiving any severance pay nor even a bouquet of flowers upon retirement. The lawsuit, where four non-regular women workers of “Metro Commerce” (Tokyo Metro Kiosk) called on the company to treat them equally as the regular employees under Article 20 of Labor Contract Act, is now at a final stage. They launched a sit-in strike on Dec. 12 to last through Dec. 15. “You can see it most clearly how we are discriminated against when it comes to bonuses,” the Metro Commerce union president USHIRO Ryoko said. “We, contract employees B (non-regular), receive only a 100,000 yen as bonus, whereas a regular employee receives over 600,000 yen. It is unfair that such a big difference exists when we do the same work. We’ve had enough; it’s time that we rose up to fight a legal battle.” But the outlook for the lawsuit seems hardly hopeful. On the same day, a number of members of the Postal Industry Workers Union (PIWU) fighting against the same issue came to support them. A non-regular university lecturer also took the microphone to say that the bonus discrepancy between regular and non-regular workers is six fold. Fury over prevalent discrimination against non-regular workers spread across the society from the sit-in protest at Tokyo District Court. (By M) 

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怒りのメラメラハット裁判所前に登場～非正規差別を絶つ判決を！
12月12日、東京裁判所前に初めて「怒りのメラメラハット」が登場した。そこには「非正規労働者に花（尊厳）を！」と書かれている。定年退職しても退職金もなく、花束一つもらえない非正規の怒りを表現していた。東京メトロ売店「メトロコマース」の非正規女性4人が差別是正を求めた労働契約法20条裁判は、大詰め。12日～15日までの連続座り込みが始まった。後呂良子委員長が訴える。「差別が顕著にあらわれるのが賞与。私たち契約社員Ｂは1回の賞与が10万円。一方正社員は60万円以上だ。同じ仕事でこんな差はおかしい。もう我慢の限界で裁判に立ち上がった」。しかし裁判の行方は厳しい。この日は同じ問題でたたかっている郵政ユニオンが多数応援にやってきた。また非正規の大学教員は「正規と6倍の格差がある」と飛び入りでマイクアピールした。社会に蔓延する非正規差別への怒りが裁判所前に広がっていた。（M）

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