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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!

  • Japan to Raise Ceiling on Employment Adjustment Subsidies

    03 May 2020 12:56 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Tokyo, May 3 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese government will raise the ceiling on employment adjustment subsidies given to companies that put workers on temporary paid leave, economic revitalization minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said in a television program on Sunday.

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

  • Japan to oblige employers to let pregnant women take virus leave

    01 May 2020 13:08 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Employers who deny pregnant women's requests to take time off during the novel coronavirus pandemic may be named and shamed under a new labor ministry guideline coming in early May.

    Source: http://www.asahi.com/

  • Go abroad: Japan employers and colleges eye globalized school year

    01 May 2020 13:04 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- Employers and universities have welcomed the growing debate on pushing back the Japanese academic year's start to September, hoping to encourage more students to study abroad and expand the nation's pool of globally competitive talent.

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

  • 30% of Japan job-seekers see coronavirus impact on unemployment: Mainichi survey

    29 Apr 2020 13:41 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- A Mainichi Shimbun survey of 100 people using services provided by "Hello Work" public employment security offices nationwide found that 30% of respondents believe "the spread of the novel coronavirus has had a great impact" on their unemployment status.

    Source: https://mainichi.jp/

  • Workers risking infection deserve payouts too, says Japan minister

    26 Apr 2020 13:21 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Supermarket cashiers who risk infection by going to work deserve government cash payouts just as much as those at home on furlough, said the minister leading Japan’s fight against the coronavirus in an interview with the Financial Times.

    Source: https://www.ft.com/

  • Japan to subsidize 100% of salaries at small companies

    24 Apr 2020 13:23 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- Japan is working on a subsidy to ensure that temporarily idled small-business employees receive 100% of their wages during the current state of emergency, Nikkei has learned.

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

  • Web-conferencing biz booming as pandemic sends Japan's workers online

    23 Apr 2020 13:20 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Japan’s biggest power producer, Jera Co., holds executive and other important meetings on the internet and, except for power plant personnel, about 1,300 of the 1,700 employees at its headquarters and branch offices worked from home last week in response to the government’s call to curb social interaction to slow the novel coronavirus.

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

  • Foreign graduates in Japan can't leave due to virus, can't work due to visas

    20 Apr 2020 16:29 | JHRS (Administrator)
    KOBE -- Foreign students who graduated from Japanese language schools in March are falling into difficult circumstances due to the spread of the novel coronavirus. With flight cancellations stopping them returning home, and the law forbidding them from work after graduation, many are stuck without a means to earn money to live. 


    Source: https://mainichi.jp/

  • Fears coronavirus taking greater toll on Japan employment than Lehman shock

    20 Apr 2020 16:27 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The economic fallout from the new coronavirus in Japan has triggered a sharp increase in nonpermanent workers seeking advice after losing their jobs, with some economists predicting unemployment could rise by over a million within a year, worse than the impact from the 2008-2009 global financial crisis.

    Source: https://mainichi.jp/

  • Income for Japan's nonregular workers falling fast amid virus crisis

    18 Apr 2020 16:38 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The coronavirus pandemic is reducing the incomes of a wide range of nonregular workers across the nation, according to a survey by the Research Institute for Advancement of Living Standards.

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

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