After a 6 month probation period (which is unreasonably long IMO), I have just been asked to sign a paper that extends the probation to 3 more months for non-performance reasons
Want to hear other opinions. Do you guys think there is any reason for me to sign this? It sounds like I am just signing a meaningless piece of paper in terms of labor laws, but at the same time I don’t want to put pen to paper anything that could be legally annoying
24h later tldr summary
- if you have been employed more than 14 days, you cannot be dismissed for any reason that is not adequate in the eyes of Japanese labor law (specifically any reason that does not ‘meet social standards or convention’, 社会通念)
- there exists legal precedents in case law, but as far as I can tell, there doesn’t seem to exist concrete guidance from the government on the legality of probation periods 3-6 months. Government workers themselves are given 3 or 6 month probation periods
- in my case, performance has been good, so it is very unlikely a dismissal would hold in court
- I was going to ask a lawyer but I decided I don’t need to because I don’t mind getting terminated in the first place
- some people care a lot about what I do at work so much that it triggers and offends them. It is very sad but I guess this is Reddit
by Marchinelli