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This news service contains Japan-related HR news that matter in a nutshell. Guaranteed less than 50 words linked back to its original news source. Great for busy HR pros like you!

  • Japanese least satisfied with work environments amid pandemic: survey

    29 Jul 2020 14:04 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Japanese employees were the least satisfied with their work environments in terms of novel coronavirus measures according to a soon-to-be-released six-nation survey, which Jiji Press reported Wednesday.

    Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/

  • Japan retailer pushes limit of retirement age, making 80 the new 65

    26 Jul 2020 14:09 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- Electronics retailer Nojima has decided to let employees work until they are 80 years old if they choose to, raising its retirement age from 65 to retain experienced workers in a graying Japan.

    Source: https://asia.nikkei.com/

  • Cardboard shields Japan's workers where telework is not an option

    25 Jul 2020 14:12 | JHRS (Administrator)

    OSAKA -- When 15 employees in the credit risk analysis division at Kansai Mirai Bank returned to their downtown Osaka office for the first time in three months on July 10, they sat at desks separated by cardboard partitions.

    Source: https://asia.nikkei.com/

  • 32,000 workers in Japan fired amid pandemic

    07 Jul 2020 19:43 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Ministry officials counted 32,348 such workers from the end of January through last Friday. Some 4,000 were added over the past week. The figures were taken from job placement agencies nationwide and other sources.

    Source: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/

  • Shift to online recruitment sees Japanese students spend less on job hunting

    06 Jul 2020 19:44 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Students spent an average of about ¥29,000 on job hunting between March and May, about a third of last year’s amount, as the move to online recruitment amid the coronavirus pandemic cut their related transport and accommodation expenses, a survey has showed.

    Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/

  • Japan's single mothers, female nonregular workers hard hit by virus

    04 Jul 2020 19:41 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Based on a labor market survey by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications in April, the employed population of women dropped by 530,000 from the same month the previous year to 29.30 million -- the first such downward shift in over eight years.

    Source: https://japantoday.com/


  • Japan pandemic jobless data masks woe of millions, experts say

    03 Jul 2020 19:40 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Unlike most major global powers, Japan has been spared an explosion in unemployment during the coronavirus pandemic, despite the world’s third-biggest economy suffering its first recession in more than five years.

    Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/

  • Japan's airport quarantine workers to get special allowance for high-risk work

    03 Jul 2020 19:39 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The National Personnel Authority plans to pay a special allowance of up to ¥4,000 per day to government employees who were involved in quarantine work at two airports earlier this year in response to the coronavirus outbreak, it was learned Thursday.

    Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/

  • Japan's single mothers and female workers hard hit by coronavirus

    03 Jul 2020 19:22 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Based on a labor market survey by the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry in April, the employed population of women dropped by 530,000 from the same month the previous year to 29.3 million — the first such downward shift in over eight years.

    Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/

  • Tokyo abandons numerical targets to fight coronavirus

    30 Jun 2020 19:34 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike on Tuesday unveiled a new coronavirus warning system that is based more on the advice of medical professionals instead of relying heavily on specific numerical targets, as the capital grapples with a recent uptick in the number of new cases after business and social restrictions were eased about a month ago.

    Source: https://english.kyodonews.net/

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