Mazda settles employment suit

Mazda settles employment suit

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Lawyers for 15 former temporary employees of Mazda Motor Corp. smile during a press conference in Hiroshima, western Japan, on July 22, 2014, after the automaker and the plaintiffs reached a settlement in the Hiroshima High Court in a lawsuit over Mazda's practice of denying workers regular employee status after long services as temp staff. The 15 former temp workers will each receive an undisclosed sum from Mazda, but will not return to the car company.

  • Product Code
  • ILEA001204037
  • Registered date
  • 2014/7/22 00:00:00
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • 2014 Kyodo News
  • Media size
  • 3968 × 2568 pixel
  • Resolution
  • 240 dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 793.20(KB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos
    Mazda settles employment suit

    Mazda settles employment suit

    HIROSHIMA, Japan - Lawyers for 15 former temporary employees of Mazda Motor Corp. smile during a press conference in Hiroshima, western Japan, on July 22, 2014, after the automaker and the plaintiffs reached a settlement in the Hiroshima High Court in a lawsuit over Mazda's practice of denying workers regular employee status after long services as temp staff. The 15 former temp workers will each receive an undisclosed sum from Mazda, but will not return to the car company. (Kyodo)
      Ruling on wartime labor

      Ruling on wartime labor

      SEOUL, South Korea - Yeo Woon Taek, one of the plaintiffs in a wartime labor lawsuit, speaks at a press conference on July 10, 2013. The Seoul High Court ordered the same day Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. to pay compensation to four South Koreans who were forced to work at the company's steel mill in Japan during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.
        1 dead, 10 injured as ex-Mazda temp hits workers with car

        1 dead, 10 injured as ex-Mazda temp hits workers with car

        HIROSHIMA, Japan - Former Mazda Motor Corp. temporary worker Toshiaki Hikiji is escorted by police officers to a police station in Hiroshima City on June 22, 2010. He was arrested on suspicion of hitting 11 Mazda group employees with a car at the automaker's plant in Hiroshima, killing one of them and injuring the others. (Kyodo)
          1 dead as alleged ex-Mazda temp hits 11 with car

          1 dead as alleged ex-Mazda temp hits 11 with car

          HIROSHIMA, Japan - Police officers examine a site at a Mazda Motor Corp. plant in Hiroshima where an alleged former temporary worker there hit 11 employees with a car, killing one, on June 22, 2010. Toshiaki Hikiji, who has been arrested, told the police he was fired by Mazda in April and had a ''grudge'' against the company.
            1 dead as alleged ex-Mazda temp hits 11 with car

            1 dead as alleged ex-Mazda temp hits 11 with car

            HIROSHIMA, Japan - Reporters gather at a site at a Mazda Motor Corp. plant in Hiroshima where an alleged former temporary worker there hit 11 employees with a car, killing one, on June 22, 2010. Toshiaki Hikiji, who has been arrested, told the police he was fired by Mazda in April and had a ''grudge'' against the company.