We visited labor standards inspectors in western Japan and held seminars to promote reforms in the way we work. We worked 15 to 16 hours a day. When I heard the lecturer at the seminar say, ‘Why don’t we review the long working hours that have become the norm and aim to eliminate labor shortages and improve productivity?’ I laughed inside my chest and said, ‘What a joke.
Mr. A, who runs a company in Osaka, expressed his indignation.
The Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare (MHLW) defines its “work style reforms” as reforms to enable people to choose diverse and flexible work styles that suit their individual circumstances.
The “Workplace Workplace Reform Law” went into effect in July 2018, and in February 2022, a competitive bidding process was held for the “Project to Hold Briefing Sessions for Workplaces Notifying Workers of 36 Agreements in Reiwa 2022,” and Apex International, a travel agency, won the bid for 127,160,000 yen. Starting in September 2022, briefings were held at labor standards inspectors’ offices around the country as part of the “Workplace Reform Law” to explain the latest amendments to the law and the upper limits on overtime hours.
Mr. A. “It seems that KENTO in Asakusa was subcontracted by Apex, and Mr. Toshiharu Saito of the company asked me for business cooperation, saying, ‘I need your help with a job; it’s a job worth 8 to 10 million yen.
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