特定技能にコンビニ追加　自民、外国人政策提言へ

　自民党の外国人労働者等特別委員会（片山さつき委員長）は１７日、新在留資格「特定技能」の対象業種にコンビニエンスストアを加えることを柱とする提言を取りまとめた。政府が７月に策定する経済財政運営の基本方針（骨太の方針）に反映させるよう求める。
　アルバイトでコンビニ店員として働く留学生の労働には、原則週２８時間の上限がある。しかし、複数の従業員のまとめ役を担う外国人も増えているため、こうした外国人がフルタイムで働ける仕組みを求める声が業界から上がっていた。
　トラック運送、産業廃棄物処理については、将来的な特定技能への移行を視野に外国人の活用拡大を要請。中国による統制強化のあおりで国際金融センターである香港から人材流出の動きがあることを踏まえ、金融を専門とする高度な人材の受け入れも求める。（2020/06/17-16:29）

A special committee of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party came up with a proposal Wednesday that the government allow foreigners to work full time at convenience stores under the new visa system.
   Currently, convenience stores can hire foreigners only if they are students in Japan and only as part-timers permitted to work up to 28 hours a week in principle. But the industry hopes that such foreigners, particularly those who are demonstrating workplace leadership, will be allowed to work full time.
   Given the situation, the LDP panel decided to recommend that the government add the convenience store sector to the list of industries that can accept full-time workers with specified skills from other countries under the new visa system, when it compiles basic plans for economic and fiscal policy management in July.
   The panel will also advise the government to explore ways to make use of foreign workforce in the trucking and industrial waste disposal industries with a view to adding the industries to the list and promote acceptance of highly skilled foreign financial workers such as professionals considering to leave Hong Kong, whose status as a global financial center is jeopardized by the Chinese government's tighter control.
   Among other proposals is that the Immigration Services Agency maintain its special rule to allow workers with specified skills and technical trainees who became jobless in the coronavirus crisis to find jobs in not only business sectors where they were initially permitted to work but other sectors.