英会話スクールの男性講師が、不当な雇い止めにあったとして会社に地位確認を求めた訴訟の控訴審判決が10月9日、東京地裁であった。村上正敏裁判長は男性敗訴の1審東京地裁判決を変更し、雇い止めを無効として2017年4月からの未払い賃金（月額25万7800円）の支払いを命じた。
判決後、原告のアダム・クリーブさん（47）が東京・霞が関の厚労省記者クラブで会見を開き、「職場に戻ることを楽しみにしています。長い戦いでしたが、判決で正当ということが再確認できました」と話した。
詳細はこちらをご覧ください。The Tokyo High Court today (Oct. 9) overturned the lower court’s verdict in a dismissal case against Shane. The eikaiwa language school in 2017 fired Adam Cleeve, president of Tozen’s Shane Workers Union.
Tokyo District Court upheld the ruling and ignored union claims of strike-busting. Shane fired Adam in effect for actively participating in the union’s strike, a point not lost on the court.
Judge Murakami threw out nearly every one of Shane’s assertions, and invalidated their illegal designated paid leave system.
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Wednesday, October 2nd, the Tokyo Labor Commission ruled that language school Shane Corp. committed unfair labor practices in issuing a warning letter to the president of Tozen Union’s Shane Workers Union and in reducing the class load of another member.
The commission also ordered the school to issue an official apology to the union.
An “unfair labor practice” is a violation of the Trade Union Act.
In the same verdict, the commission rejected the union’s other union-busting claims.
Ostensibly, the warning letter was for taking a paid holiday with less than two months notice, but the commission ruled that the real reason was union activity.
Both parties have two weeks to appeal.
2013年の6月と8月に行われた組合によるビラ配りを妨害したとして、東京高等裁判所は2019年8月9日、日本外国語専門学校に対し、労働組合法及び、東ゼン労組の組合員たちの憲法上の権利を侵害したと判決を下した。
東ゼン労組JCFL支部は、2013年に結成され、結成当初から敵意に満ちた応対と向き合ってきた。経営側は、2つの組合のビラ配りを妨害した。組合はJCFLに対し東京都労働委員会へ申し立てた。
詳細はこちらをご覧ください。On August 9th 2019, Tokyo High Court ruled that Japan College of Foreign Languages interfered with union leafleting in June and October of 2013, violating trade union law and the constitutional rights of Tozen Union members.
Read MorePolice from four prefectures are cracking down on unionized drivers of concrete mixer trucks.
They have arrested 85 members of Kansai Namakon Union, indicting 50 of them. Ten remain in jail, including the executive president and vice president who have been locked up for nearly a year despite not even being present where the alleged crimes took place.
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