‘출향’을 통한 일본의 고용조정 동향과 시사점

This paper reviews the process of establishment and development of Japanese relocation method as called 'syukko', and the situation or characteristics of the syukko laborers and thereafter the contents and its performance of Japanese government's employment policy for syukko system. This paper focuses specifically on the syukko issues which have not been elaborately reviewed hitherto by other researches. In addition the outline of comparative studies about syukko or pseudo syukko such as relocation, secondment, detachement, Leiharbeitsverhaltnis that are operated in US, UK, France and Germany repectively is surveyed. Syukko system has been widly adopted by large Japanese manufacturing companies since 1960s, but it is likely to decrease slowly since 1990s. Maybe that is because from the change in method of employment adjustment in relation with the displacement of labor forces, namely it has been recently changing from internal adjustment as such transfer or syukko a kind of compelling enforcement by managers to various external adjustment as such relocation, incentive plans to early retirement, challenge carrier system etc. in which company assistes employees to transfer with low cost or low burden respecting his(or her) will. And also increase laborer employed temporaliy by contract, par-time entrustee, dispatched employee that replace syukko laborer.