Japanese Employment Law Update December 2024 (By Motoi Fujii and Yumiko Hanaeda)

In April this year, the Supreme Court issued two employment-related judgments, one about the transfer of position of an employee, and the other about the working hour system called the deemed working hour system outside the workplace.  In this newsletter, we provide summaries of the judgments and share insights for employers to consider in light of these rulings.