NAGASAKI – An English teacher whose employment contract with Nagasaki University was terminated just before he would have been eligible to claim an unfixed term is set to return to work indefinitely after a court settlement.
NAGASAKI – An English teacher whose employment contract with Nagasaki University was terminated just before he would have been eligible to claim an unfixed term is set to return to work indefinitely after a court settlement.
Five years starting from when the law was enacted, I believe.
By law they need a clear reason to let you go if your contract has been renewed before. My guess is that they didn’t have the right paperwork in place when he recontracted. But I don’t know.
Update: I was correct. They did recontracting in Japanese, and he didn’t read it well. So they extended for two years knowing he thought it was three years. If they had made everything clear, by writing in a language he speaks, and had clearly showed the end date, perhaps he would not have had a case. Of course they pretended they thought he could read Japanese, but labor law is not exactly on their side here. Employers have an obligation to provide documents in languages that employees can read. And his original contract was in English (and Japanese), so they had the knowledge and capability to do so. In summary, contract fraud.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190826/p2a/00m/0dm/013000c