Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
10-27-2022
Graduation Year
2024
Abstract
Lifetime employment used to be the norm in Japan. Workers who are “regular” lifetime employees receive a livable salary, great benefits, a retirement pension as well as protections from termination. “non-regular” workers are workers who aren’t lifetime employees. They have increased rapidly since the 1990s when Japan’s economy faced a significant downturn, and then again in the following decade during the global 2008 recession. The population of non-regular employees has grown from 8.8 million (20% of all workers) in 1990 to 21.6 million (38% of all workers) in 2019, almost doubling in that 30 year range.
This post was originally published on the Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review on October 27, 2022. The original post can be accessed via the Archived Link button above.
Recommended Citation
Cook Dailey, Bailey, "The Rights of Non-Regular Workers in Japan" (2022). Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review Blog. 56.
https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/ciclr-online/56
