技能実習生の雇用支援継続を　外国人政策、安倍首相に提言―自民

　自民党の外国人労働者等特別委員会の片山さつき委員長は３日、安倍晋三首相と首相官邸で会い、新型コロナウイルス感染拡大の影響で解雇された技能実習生らの雇用支援の継続を求める提言を行った。首相は「政府としての対応を検討したい」と応じた。
　提言はまた、中国による統制が強まる香港で金融分野を中心に人材流出の動きがあることを踏まえ、年内をめどに受け入れ策を検討するよう要請した。（2020/07/03-16:28）

A committee of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party asked Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday to continue employment support for foreign technical trainees who lost their jobs amid the new coronavirus crisis.
   The government will consider responses, Abe said in a meeting with Satsuki Katayama, chairperson of the LDP's Special Committee on Foreign Workers.
   With some financial industry workers are leaving Hong Kong, where China is boosting its controls, the committee also called on the Japanese government to consider by the end of the year ways to attract such workers.
   On the new visa status created in Japan last year, for foreign workers with certain skills, the committee said it will deepen discussions on utilizing such workers, hoping to expand the scope of the visa status to the convenience store and industrial waste disposal industries.
   In a bid to assess employment status, the committee also asked the government to promote talks on integrating My Number social security and taxation identification cards with residence cards for foreigners.