Japanese video game company Nintendo has introduced changes in its internal regulations to extend the labor rights of those who enjoy heterosexual marriages in the company at same sex couples and the de facto unions.
The developer and distributor of video game explained in an update to its strategy for corporate social responsibility published this week March 2021 introduced a “union system” which “ensures that employees who form a domestic partnership with a person of the same sex have the same benefits than employees in a marriage of the opposite sex.
The unions established as de facto couplesregardless of sex, will also “have the same consideration as a legal marriage”, despite the fact that currently this type of conjugal unions are not legalized in Japanexplain the guidelines.
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The company has also reviewed its codes of conduct to include the explicit prohibition any discrimination either bullying Because of sexual orientation and gender identity“as well as revealing someone’s sexual orientation against their will.”
Nintendo is the latest major company to join this trend that began several years ago in Japan led by panasonic and to which signatures such as Sony, IBM Japanese either soft bank.
The japanese law does not contemplate marriage between same-sex couplesalthough several cities in the country currently emit civil union certificates that grant these couples some comparable rights to those of heterosexual liaisons.
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The systems are not, however, binding at the national level, so any legal battle for these rights is usually a losing battle, given their current illegality before the State.
There are some ongoing lawsuits in the country that question the constitutionality of the rejection of the Government to the legalization of these unions.
Two courts have so far ruled with opposing sentences, while three other lawsuits are still unresolved. None has reached the Constitutional Court so far.
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Source: Eluniverso
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