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Fact-finding Research on Financial Compensation for Unfair Dismissal Cases in Court

(Published originally in Japanese on May 31, 2023 and later revised for Japan Labor Issues Vol.8, no.47 Spring 2024.)

HAMAGUCHI Keiichiro

JILPT published a research report Comparative analysis of cases of employment termination resolved by labor tribunals or court settlements in April 2023. The Report summarized the results of two surveys conducted in 2014 and 2022 by JILPT as requested by the MHLW, of which outline was previously reported to the MHLW’S Labor Policy Council’s Working Conditions Committee in October and December 2022. This article reviews previous studies in this field and visualizes the data of the 2022 Survey mainly in comparison with the 2014 Survey. The 2014 Survey covered 452 labor tribunal cases that ended in either labor tribunal mediation or a labor tribunal decision in four district courts in 2013, and 193 labor-related civil litigation cases that ended in a settlement in the same four district courts in the same year. The 2022 Survey covered 785 labor tribunal cases that ended in either labor tribunal mediation or a labor tribunal decision in one district court in 2020 and 2021, and 282 cases of labor-related civil litigation cases that ended in a settlement in the same district court in the same years.

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