From the 15th, for a period of two days, RENGO gathered representatives on job issues and fair management cooperation members for temporary agencies from affiliated organizations and local RENGO, and held the "3rd National Conference for Representatives on Employment Issues" at a hotel in Toshima, Tokyo. The approximately 80 attendees actively exchanged opinions about recent measures for employment/labor problems, primarily job creation planning in local areas and dispatched labor issues.

Representing the organizers, RENGO Labor Division Group Chief Matsuura opened by touching on a prediction from private organizations that 0.5 to 1.3 million unemployed will be created due to disposal of bad debt resulting from the government's emergency economic measures. He identified the danger of "the job /unemployment situation [as having] reached an alarming level." He emphasized that "it is necessary to establish employment measures that deal with the changes in circumstances that surround us. To do that, we must seek a stable infrastructure policy from the government." He appealed for the necessity of holding an employment promotion council among government, labor, and management as early as possible. Further, he also spoke of policies for handling employment conditions on the following two points. (1)re-employment support for the unemployed due to bankruptcy or job dismissal, arrangement for a labor turnover system that will not worsen labor conditions, and an skill evaluation system. (2)abolition of discriminatory and unfair working conditions through the diversification of job structures such as part-time works and dispatched labor.

Continuing, Assistant Division Chief Horii of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare's Employment Security Bureau, Employment Development Division, explained the points of revision regarding the "Local Employment Development Promotion Law." Attendees voiced opinions such as "we want 'hearing the opinions of management and workers' to be included in the guidelines when drawing up plans" and "we want the ministry to show its stance on employment measures for businesses."

Afterwards, Nakamura Employment and Wage Division Director of RENGO reported on the RENGO's activities. His report raised questions on issues including:

(1) Points in the Employment Measures Law revision, which include re-employment support plans and clauses that abolish age discrimination etc.
(2) Revision of the Promotion Law for Vocational Skill and the 7th Basic Plan of Vocational Skill.
(3) The state of management/worker participation in local administration regarding local employment.
(4) The state of responses to regulatory-reform and revision of the Dispatched Labor Law.

On the basis of these issues, attendees divided into two workshops: "Local Activities for Stabilization and Creation of Job" and "Activities for Dispatched Labor Law Revision." They reported on local activities and other issues and actively exchanged opinions for two days.

Finally, RENGO Labor Division Group Chief Matsuura brought the event to a close showing his determination and summarizing the event, "as the globalization of the economy advances, changes in the structures of industry and employment are unavoidable. For the stabilization of jobs and living standards, we will advance specific job creation plans in every locality and create activities for the establishment of new work rules."