The Labor Leasing Law was also amended to expand the job categories allowable to be covered by a worker rental service. With all these, women workers are now forced to engage equally with men in long, intensive labor with no regulation on it. It is now too difficult for them to continue business and sustain their livelihood, and they face such a serious problem as the collapse of family life. Many of them take care of aged or sick family members while working. They are ruining their own heath.
Japanese agriculture is now in crisis.
Anxiety toward the safety of food in growing due to the import of gene recombination product. Women engaged in agriculture are working desperately to defend Japan's agriculture and their livelihood. Enact a dismissal regulation law to prohibit dismissal and transfer of workers. Impose legal regulation on extra working hours, work at night and on holidays for both men and women to reduce working hours. In order to realize genuine equality in employment between men and women, revise the Equal Employment Opportunity Law to prohibit indirect discrimination, to add penal regulations for those employers who violate the Law, and to include provisions for the maternity protection.