Changes in industrial relations and the ideal legal system

Introduction Based on the social trends of post-industrialization and globalization, industrial relations are changing substantially around the world thus making it necessary to drastically revise and employment labor laws that regulate industrial relations. Even if we look only at Japanese labor and employment laws, we can see the following swift changes that have been made: Introduction of the discretionary labor system for those engaged in planning-related work by the amendment of the Labor Standard Law (1998) Liberalization, in principle, of the worker dispatch business and private job-placement business by the amendment of the Worker Dispatch Law and Employment Security Law (1999) The Law on Promoting the Resolution of Individual Labor Disputes to establish a system for providing support in solving employment disputes (2001) The Law for Promoting the Measures to Support Fostering of the Next Generation to promote support of child raising (2003) The Labor Tribunal Law to introduce the labor judgment system for solution of employment disputes (2004) Amendment of the Law Concerning Stabilization of Employment of Older Persons to provide employment security measures for workers up to the age of 65 (2004) Amendment of the Equal Employment Opportunity Law to prohibit indirect discrimination (2006)