来日時手数料は問題　外国人労働政策、ＯＥＣＤが初の論評

　経済協力開発機構（ＯＥＣＤ）は３０日、日本の外国人労働者政策について初めてとなるレビュー（論評）の概要を公表した。技能実習生が来日する際、送り出し機関に手数料を支払うことにより借金が生じることを問題視した。
　２０２１年から３年間かけて、ＯＥＣＤは厚生労働省の国立社会保障・人口問題研究所と共同で調査した。レビューは、技能実習制度が技能移転ではなく、労働需要を満たすために利用されてきたと指摘。外国人の受け入れ仲介や企業などの監督を担う団体などの役割を調整し、外国人労働者が借金を抱えるリスクを低減させるべきだとの認識を示した。（2024/05/30-10:10）

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Thursday that it is problematic that foreign technical trainees often bear heavy debts to pay fees to the organizations that send them to Japan.
   The position was included in an overview of the OECD's first review on Japan's foreign labor policy, conducted over the three years from 2021 with the Japanese labor ministry's National Institute of Population and Social Security Research.
   In the review, the OECD said that Japan's technical intern trainee program has been used to satisfy labor demand instead of passing on skills to trainees.
   The OECD urged the country to reduce the risk of foreign trainees incurring debt by coordinating the responsibilities of groups that act as brokers for technical trainees and supervise companies that accept trainees from abroad.
   Under the technical trainee program, many trainees bear massive debts to pay fees and deposits to sending organizations in their home countries. This is believed to have led such trainees to disappear or to work illegally.