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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!

  • How the coronavirus is changing working styles in Japan

    03 Jun 2020 15:23 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The coronavirus pandemic has opened people's eyes in Japan to the possibility of new working styles where working from home, staggered work hours, and even four-day workweeks could become the norm.

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

  • Single moms in Japan losing jobs due to virus crisis struggle to support their kids

    03 Jun 2020 15:20 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- The coronavirus crisis is having a direct impact on workers in vulnerable positions in Japan, such as people rearing children or those who don't have permanent employment arrangements.

    Source: https://mainichi.jp/

  • 6 million workers on leave in Japan as coronavirus takes toll

    30 May 2020 15:24 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- A record 5.97 million Japanese people were employed but not working last month, official data released Friday shows, as the private and public sectors try to shield workers from the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

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

  • Japan's elderly workers, once key to Abenomics, suffer as pandemic closes businesses

    22 May 2020 15:26 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO (Reuters) - On a recent Saturday in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district more than 100 people, many of them elderly men, stood close together in a long queue waiting for food hand-outs.

    Source: https://www.reuters.com/

  • Coronavirus might cost Japan over 1 million jobs, economists say

    14 May 2020 15:18 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The coronavirus is strangling the nation’s labor market, which just months ago was in desperate need of manpower, and may end up leaving a gaping scar.

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

  • Foreign workers in Japan hit hard by virus job losses need more help: support groups

    08 May 2020 12:58 | JHRS (Administrator)
    Employment conditions for Japan's foreign residents, many of whom work in nonpermanent or fixed-term positions, have continually worsened as the economy is taking a battering from the effects of the novel coronavirus. 


    Source: https://mainichi.jp/

  • Pandemic Driving Foreign Workers in Japan into Corner

    07 May 2020 13:10 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Labor shortages are becoming more acute in the elderly care and agriculture sectors as foreigners with certain skills who have acquired the new resident status introduced in Japan in April 2019 have been unable to come to the country due to entry restrictions the Japanese government has put into place in response to the epidemic.

    Source: https://www.nippon.com/

  • Japan weighs unemployment benefits for furloughed employees

    07 May 2020 13:03 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- Japan is likely to pay workers furloughed due to the new coronavirus crisis the same amount as regular unemployment benefits, Nikkei has learned.

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

  • Japan's foreign work force hit by 'coronavirus cuts'

    06 May 2020 13:00 | JHRS (Administrator)

    OSAKA -- COVID-19 is throwing growing numbers of foreign workers in Japan out of work, and leaving many in financially precarious situations with no solution in sight.

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

  • Japan's workers and parents feel the strain as Abe extends state of emergency

    05 May 2020 13:12 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Workers in hospitality, tourism and other industries affected by the COVID-19 pandemic as well as parents have appealed to the government for more financial and other support, after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe extended the nationwide state of emergency on Monday by over three weeks.

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

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