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Foreign trainees who work under the government-sponsored technical internship program are covered by the equal employment opportunity law, which bans the unfair ...

Seventy percent of them inked such contracts with the organization arranging the work placement. It followed revelations that interns had been told by the organization responsible for their work placement that they should return home if pregnant, often leading to tragic cases. She was given a suspended sentence but is appealing it to the Supreme Court. In 73.8 percent of the cases, the remarks were made by the organization that arranged the job for the intern, in 14.9 percent by the supervising organizations that connect the trainees with the host entities and in 11.3 percent by the companies the interns worked for. The survey, targeting 650 trainees and carried out between August and November, showed that 26.5 percent of the interns were told they would have to quit their job and return home in the event of getting pregnant. Around a quarter of responding female foreign trainees in Japan said they were told to quit their job and return to their home country if they became pregnant, a survey by the Immigration Services Agency of Japan said Friday.