"富士通グループ元派遣労働者の訴えを棄却する地裁判決　原告側は「無期転換を回避する脱法スキーム」の存在を主張," 12 March 2025

"Unofficial Japanese-to-English translation by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre"

On March 12, the Tokyo District Court issued a ruling dismissing the plaintiff's claim in a lawsuit filed by a worker who had previously been dispatched to Fujitsu group companies and was fired after transferring to another company. The former worker claimed he had been forced to agree to the transfer based on false explanations and was seeking confirmation of his status under the employment contract and unpaid wages...

The plaintiff claimed that the man agreed to the transfer because he had received false explanations from the company, and that after the transfer he was treated differently from the working conditions that he had been told...

However, the ruling only awarded a portion of the unpaid wages, and rejected the plaintiffs' argument that "the transfer agreement was based on mistake and fraud and was not made based on the worker's free will."

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In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs argued that "an illegal scheme to avoid exercising the right to apply for permanent conversion to dispatched workers and evade employment responsibility" existed "throughout the Fujitsu Group," and that FUJITSU UT was also playing a part in it...

The plaintiff, stated his intention to appeal, saying, "There are many other people who have been forced to transfer or be fired. I would like to continue fighting together with them."

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