The Science Council of Japan Secretariat issued a statement calling for the promotion of work style reforms to be compatible with the implementation of work style reforms and the securing of free research time.Labor authorities are urged to take care that work style reforms do not impair the availability of research time.
The statement is a joint name of 16 members of the secretariat, including the president of the secretariat, Toshikazu Yamagiwa, the president of Kyoto University.According to it, work style reform aims to correct long working hours and create a society where workers can choose various work styles, but academic research is an activity based on the free will of researchers and systematic command. He pointed out that his personality is different from the general work carried out by order.
If the correction of long working hours hinders the securing of free research time for researchers, it will not only lead to stagnation of academic research, but also go against the purpose of work style reform in which everyone has a purpose to live and demonstrate their abilities. As a result, we are demanding that both work style reform and securing research time be realized.
Regarding the fact that researchers are promoting the use of the discretionary labor system, the purpose is to set working hours at the discretion of researchers, and research hours are not managed uniformly on a weekly or monthly basis. Insisted that it was not.He is appealing for improvement, saying that the actual discretionary labor system does not necessarily match the actual situation of academic research.
Regarding the advanced professional system newly established by the revision of the law, researchers at universities are excluded from the target, but in the future, we asked them to consider it in the direction of contributing to the free academic research of researchers.
