Workers' Health Care and the Law

本研究旨在全面分析有关工人疾病和保健的法律问题，并找到有效处理这些问题的理论结构。各种方法被用来识别和分析这个问题。首先，我们不仅在日本，还在法国和德国进行了实地考察，参观了实际企业的设施，采访了医学、职业卫生、劳动法等领域的专家。其次，我们收集了日本和国际上关于这一主题的文件和资料，以验证我们的发现并扩大我们的视野。第三，利用联合研究项目的优势，我们举行了大量的会议，在参与者之间分享信息和交换意见。由于这些努力，我们确认有必要从劳动法的专门知识出发，对工人健康问题采取法律办法。鉴于当今工作场所工人承受的压力越来越大，保持心理健康变得尤为重要。这离不开对工作时间的适当规定和休假的法律保障，我们从研究中发现了许多有价值的启示。它们将在不久的将来汇编和出版。我们已经出版了一本关于国立大学劳资关系的书。其中关于员工健康、工作时间和休假的部分是建立在这项研究的成果之上的。

This research was designed to analyze legal problems regarding workers' sickness and health care in a comprehensive manner and to find a theoretical structure to deal with such problems effectively. A variety of methods were utilized to identify and analyze the issue. First, we conducted field studies not only in Japan but also in France and Germany, visiting facilities of actual enterprises and interviewing specialists in the fields of medicine, occupational health, and labor law. Second, we collected documents and materials, both Japanese and international, on this theme to verify our findings and expand our horizon. Third, taking the advantage of being a joint-research project, we had a great number of meetings to share information and exchange opinions among the participants. As a result of these efforts, we confirmed the necessity of legal approach to the issue of workers' health from the expertise of labor law. It is becoming particularly important, given the mounting pressure upon the workers in today's workplaces, to maintain their mental health. This cannot be achieved without proper regulation of working hours and legal guarantee of leave, and we found many valuable implications in this respect from the research. They will be compiled and published in the near future. We already published a) book on the labor/employment relations of National Universities. Its sections on the employee' health, working hours, and leaves are built on the fruits of this research.