Japan top court rules against denying benefits to fixed-term workers

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that it is "unreasonable" for Japan Post Co. not to provide its fixed-term employees with the same allowances it pays to regular workers.The top court's judgement in favor of nonregular workers came two days after its rulings against them in two different cases over a law that prohibits unfair gaps between the treatment of such employees and regular workers.The court's No. 1 Petty Bench, presided over by Justice Atsushi Yamaguchi, addressed allowances widely paid in Japan to employees whose family members are financially dependent on them as well as extra pa…READ FULL ARTICLE