ZHONG Qi

As of September 2025

Title, Research section

Vice Senior Researcher, Labour Laws and Industrial Relations

Area/Field of Research

Labor Law

Research Projects

Japan Labor Issues

• Vol.9, No.54, Autumn 2025
  
• Illegality of a Transfer Order Following Business Abolition with Job Category Limitation Agreements
  The Shiga Prefecture Council of Social Welfare Case (PDF:587KB)
• Vol.8, No.46, Winter 2024
  Worker Status of Platform Workers under the Labor Union Act
  The Uber Japan and One Other Company Case (PDF:923MB)
• Vol.7, No.42, April 2023
  Disguised Contracting and the Deemed Labor Contract Application by the Client under Item 5 of Paragraph 1 of Article 40-6 of the Worker Dispatching Act
  The Tori Case (PDF:255KB)
• Vol.5, No.34, October-November 2021
  Illegality of the Disparity in Working Conditions between Hourly Paid Fixed-term Contract Employees and Monthly Paid Regular Employees: The Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University (former Osaka Medical University) Case (PDF:240KB)
• Vol.3, No.19, November 2019
  Binding Effect of Unilaterally Modified Rules of Employment Introducing a Performance-based and Ability-based Wage System: The Trygroup Case (PDF:163KB)
• Vol.1, No.3, November-December 2017
  Atypical Work Organizations as a Social Phenomenon Occurring throughout the Contemporary Labor World: Current Status of Research and Future Issues (PDF:442KB)

JILPT Research Report

• No.222 Research on Labor Law Regulations on New Forms of Employment and the Criteria for Determining Worker Status in China (2022)
• No.202 “New Forms of Employment” and Worker Protection under the Sharing Economy in China: Problems in Regulation and Practice (2019)

Education

Final Education: Finished Doctoral Course, Faculty of Laｗ and Graduate Schools for Law and Policies, The University of Tokyo

Academic Societies' Membership

Japan Labor Law Association

Contact Information

Tel: +81 3-5903-6312

E-mail: zhong [at sign] jil.go.jp