OSAKA -- All Nippon Airways was ordered Monday by the Osaka District Court to rescind its decision to dismiss a female flight attendant who had taken four years off due to work-related injuries.
According to the court, the airline tried to force 46-year-old Nobuko Ishitomi of Mino, Osaka Prefecture, to quit after she returned to work in 1995.
In handing down the ruling, Judge Tetsuou Matsumoto said the court did not "recognize that her work performance was any worse, and therefore (the company's decision was an) abuse of employment rights."