Tuesday, April 25, 2006
"I thought I'm without health insurance coverage because I'm not a full-time employee. But I feel insecure about working without health insurance coverage," said a woman worker in her 20s working at the Nishio plant of Denso-Corporation in Nishio City, Aichi Prefecture
The woman lives in a small dormitory room for about five square meters provided by a firm that has a contract with Denso. She normally receives about 100,000 yen a month after all the dormitory and meal costs are deducted. She has neither employee health insurance nor the unemployment insurance coverage, or the employee pension plan. Denso neglects its legal obligation to provide health insurance coverage to all the workers, including temporary workers or workers on contract who work for two months without interruption.
A man in his 30s, also a dormitory resident, said, "I work through two or three contractors. We work both day shifts and night shifts, and we work harder than full-time employees."
As corporations are replacing more amounts of full-time employees with contingent workers in order to cut labor costs, they also begin to neglect to fulfill their social responsibilities. Under the pressure from major corporations, staff-servicing firms tend to seeking to cut costs. In a corporate attempt to avoid paying half the cost for health insurance, workers are left all alone without the heath insurance and the number is on the increase
On the finding about workers at a major firm related to Toyota, Japanese Communist Party member of the House of Representative Sasaki Kensho commented as follows, "Behind this lies the policy of deregulating labor laws advocated by the Koizumi Cabinet and the business circles. Therefore, the policy needs to be drastically reviewed." Sasaki also said that workers without health insurance must be immediately dealt with, and that in the Diet he will demand that corporations be held responsible for not making any effort to correct their practices.
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