Foreign workers should be taught Japanese, say lawmakers

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Main Points from the article:
1. Proposed legislation mandates companies to send employees to school
2. This draft bill requires government to ensure that foreign workers receive an adequate language education, such as by providing subsidies to localities assisting in such efforts and companies putting them on their payrolls.
3. setting rules for Japanese education for foreign workers, defining language teaching as a government duty for the first time.
4. They plan to push to pass this bill through current session of Japanese parliament.
5. The effort comes as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government looks to take in more foreign workers to ease the country’s labor shortage.
6. This setup is more geared towards the opening of foreign interns for jobs other than IT or high skills.
7. The move comes in response to growing concerns from localities that they will be forced to bear the onus of teaching Japanese to the mounting numbers of foreign hires. The proposal would share the burden with the corporations that benefit from the labor. Both local authorities and employers will get funding from the national government for the task.