Universities are terminating workers on fixed-term contracts — but unions say the actions do not reflect the purpose of employment laws introduced ten years ago.
Dozens of research teams at RIKEN’s network of basic research laboratories will be closed down early next year.Thousands of researchers and university staff members in Japan are at risk of losing their jobs next year because of apparent loopholes in employment laws implemented a decade ago. Researchers are alarmed at the scale of the potential job losses, and say the cuts would have a devastating effect on the country’s research capacity.
And the figure could be an underestimate: lawmaker Tomoko Tamura, a member of the opposition Japanese Communist Party who sits in the upper house of the National Diet, says that her own analysis of the ministry’s findings suggests that up to 4,500 researchers might lose their jobs by the end of March.
One foreign researcher at a Japanese university who will reach the ten-year limit and lose their job in March was shocked when they were asked to quit. “I worked hard but I realize I will never get a permanent job in Japan. I feel disposable,” says the researcher, who requested anonymity to protect their prospects of gaining a new job outside Japan. “This was a lost decade for my career.”
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