ニュース 2014/10/29 Kaieda vows to communicate dispatch workers’ voices to the Diet, reiterates strong resolution to scrap Worker Dispatching Law revisions On October 29, the DPJ Irregular Employment and Working Poor Strategy Measures Headquarters, headed by DPJ President Banri Kaieda, held exchanges with dispatch workers at party headquarters. The assembled Diet members heard descriptions of the difficult employment conditions faced by dispatch workers and the two sides exchanged views on the various problems posed by the revisions of the Worker Dispatching Law. At the outset of the meeting, Kaieda commented on Prime Minister Abe’s responses to questions regarding the proposed revisions, made in the plenary session of the House of Representatives the previous day. He pointed out: “I felt that Abe was totally out of touch with the situation faced by dispatch workers. He went on, “The DPJ will listen to the opinions of dispatch workers, and will confront the Government and ruling parties with the issues raised in Diet debates. We will communicate the actual conditions faced by dispatch workers to Prime Minister Abe and Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare Shiozaki, both of whom are far too ignorant of the real facts.” DPJ Diet members heard from various dispatch workers with regard to their respective working environments and employment conditions. One worked for a large communications company, having been dispatched from its affiliate company, and two others worked as dispatch workers in one of the twenty-six specific professions (without having a limit placed on their period of employment); one working for a medical organization, and one in car-design. Kaieda expressed his appreciation to the dispatch workers for sharing their hard experiences and expressing such valuable opinions. After hearing such severe criticism from the ground, Kaieda expressed his determination to bring to light issues with the weakening of the law’s provisions during the Diet debate, and to scrap the bill to revise the Worker Dispatching Law.