「育成就労」法案、参院委で可決　１４日成立、外国人労働者を確保

　参院法務委員会は１３日、現在の技能実習に代わる外国人材の受け入れ制度「育成就労」の創設を柱とする入管難民法などの改正案を、与党と日本維新の会、国民民主党の賛成多数で可決した。立憲民主、共産両党は反対した。１４日の参院本会議でも可決され、成立する見通しだ。
　育成就労は、深刻な労働力不足を踏まえて「人材確保」に主眼を置く。未熟練の外国人労働者を３年間で育成し、最長５年働ける「特定技能１号」の水準に引き上げることを目指す。政府は２０２７年にスタートさせる方針だ。（2024/06/13-13:01）

Japan's House of Councillors committee passed on Thursday a bill to create a new skill development program for foreign workers to ease serious labor shortages in the country.
   In addition to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner, Komeito, Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Innovation Party) and the Democratic Party for the People voted for the bill to amend the immigration control and technical intern trainee laws at the Judicial Affairs Committee meeting. The leading opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and the Japanese Communist Party opposed it.
   The upper chamber of the Diet, the country's parliament, is expect to enact the legislation to replace the current foreign technical intern scheme with the new on-the-job skill development program at a plenary meeting on Friday.
   Under the revised laws, Japanese companies in designated industry sectors can hire unskilled foreign workers for three years to develop them into "type 1 specified skilled" personnel, who can be employed for up to five years in Japan. Job changes will be conditionally allowed.
   If foreigners with the type 1 residency status acquire advanced skills, they can obtain the type 2 status, which enables them to stay in the country virtually indefinitely and bring their families.