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On May 12, DPJ Policy Research Committee Chair Goshi Hosono held his regular press conference inside the Diet building. Hosono commented on legislative proposals that would weaken rules to protect workers, such as the revision of the Worker Dispatch Law, debate on which had started that same day in the plenary session House of Representatives, and the “zero overtime payments law”. He stated, “We are a political party that has clearly vowed to stand with ordinary citizens, taxpayers, consumers and workers. These are important legislative proposals that are directly concerned with what the DPJ itself stands for, and we must oppose them decisively. The process at work here, where the debate for revising labor laws is always considered from the viewpoint of industrial competition, is problematic. There is no point to a nation’s economic growth if its citizens are not happy. Working conditions are one of the root factors in this. Skipping discussion of them and moving straight on to loosening labor regulations in order to foster competition, as well as the way of thinking about economic growth this demonstrates, differs from our position. We will offer all-out resistance to this legislation.”
A meeting of the DPJ Standing Officers Council held in the afternoon of the same day decided that the DPJ would implement a campaign toward scrapping these proposals to weaken labor legislation.
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