Haken-giri

Haken giri (派遣切り) is the firing of employees assigned to companies by temporary agencies in Japan. The phenomenon began in November 2008 when the world economy entered a recession following the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in the United States.

Originally kiru means injure with the sword in Japan, but as the metaphor it means fire, drive out, knock back, ...etc. in this case it is used by means to fire. In case of the temporary worker who doesn't link a direct employment agreement with the contract company, they are in unstable employment conditions compared with the period worker in the direct hire. Not only the expiring contract termination, in many case there are expiration of indenture before the expiring bond. Of course cut a employment agreement one-sidedly on the contract way means a dismissing a laborer. It is reasonable that in depression period the capitalist dismiss a workers, but criticism is paid to them not showing an interest to live after a laborer is dismissed. To cancel a contract before the period of employment expiration is "firing", Unless meeting for Koyō-seiri yon yōken (解雇整理四要件, the four condition about the firing agreement), it is a unduly dismissing, and is against the employment contract law too, and is against the employment contract law, but there is not a penalty regulation of the criminal law or the public administration, then the laborer must have recourse to the civil lawsuit.

Junichiro Koizumi

In addition, in the process of the deregulation policy about the sending laborer in Seiiki naki Kōzō Kaikaku (聖域なき構造改革, the structuralreforms not contain any sanctuary) Koizumi cabinet, the outplacement service companies expand, the situation of laborers are relatively weak, then they give up to complain to the tribunal.

Or it is said that by the 2009 matter, the regulation of the law that the manufacturing company was pressed to employ a sending laborer directly, capitalists takes advantage of this opportunity and dismisses a laborer. There are sending of the manufacturing and approximately 1,000,000 piece-workers the whole Japan, the report was published that about 400,000 are unemployed by the trade association in the manufacturing sending and the contractor, but someone said the number would be 700,000-1,000,000 too.

After mass communication report

Because the actual state of haken giri was extensively televised in the mass communication, for avoid damaging a corporate image, some companies withdrew cancellation of a contract in the halfway period or offered the lodging in the fixed period.