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Japan Professor: “An emergency within an emergency” at Fukushima plant — Tepco may be criminally liable for endangering workers

http://enenews.com/japan-professor-an-emergency-within-an-emergency-at-fukushima-plant-tepco-may-be-criminally-liable-for-endangering-workers

Published: August 20th, 2012 at 2:18 pm ET 
By ENENews 

itle: Tepco liable for contract workers’ safety in Fukushima
Source: Japan Times
Author: Hifumi Okunuki (Constitutional and labor law at Daito Bunka University and Jissen Women’s University)
Date: August 21, 2012

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Less than 10 percent of the work at this nuclear power plant is conducted by those directly employed by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco). Over 90 percent is done by employees of subcontractors, sub-subcontractors and contractors several times removed. These workers come from a wide range of backgrounds, including some who gave up jobs in local agriculture or fishing, farmers and fishermen who work at the plants during the off-season, day laborers and former coal miners. Some have complicated stories to tell, or not to tell.

Few other workplaces require no experience or skill, and fewer still guarantee anonymity to those hoping to hide their background. Nuclear power firms also benefit from the weak position of such individuals since they are largely spared the obligations of most employers to protect the health and safety of each worker on-site.

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August 21, 2012 - Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized