特集論説
21世紀型の労働政策
―20世紀型からの大胆な転換を―
2017 年 40 巻 4 号 p. 3-8
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2017 年 40 巻 4 号 p. 3-8
The Japanese labor policy has three sides: laborer protection, laborer union security and economic policy. Among these, the economic policy has been developed to complement Japanese employment practices. However, the typical Japanese employment practice is deteriorating due to the influence of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and environmental changes accompanying globalization. From the 1990s onward, work styles and employment practices regarding laborers have diversified, and non-regular employees are on the rise. As a result, the labor policy should correspond to diversified labor problems. Institutional impoverishment is prevalent because the conventional labor policy was designed systematically subject to the employment stability of regular employees. However, it's quite difficult to predict how a labor policy will correspond to various problems. Technical innovations in AI (Artificial Intelligesnce) and robotics will develop rapidly from now on. At the same time, the labor force will decrease due to the declining birthrate and growing proportion of elderly people. I predict that labor problems will diversify even further in the future, so we must boldly convert our 20th century labor policies to meet 21th century needs.
