技能実習適正化法案の衆院法務委員会採決について、ジャパンタイムズにコメントしました。
なお、コメントは日本語でしたものを、記者が英語に翻訳して掲載されています。
私は、英語での会話はできませんので、英語での問い合わせについての対応はできません。
Lawyer Shoichi Ibusuki, who has long handled cases involving foreign interns, pointed out the bill did not address the fact that trainees are denied the discretion to change their workplaces “no matter how much they are abused or underpaid.”
He said legislators also remained oblivious to the presence of “supervising organizations” who accept the interns from abroad and then dispatch them to companies at home.
“The bill only slightly strengthened regulation as a cover-up of its real purpose, which is to expand the whole program,” lawyer Ibusuki said, referring to the expected extension of the internship time frame that he said was a not-so-veiled attempt to alleviate the nation’s labor shortage.
“Expansion is all the bill is about,” Ibusuki said.
