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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!

  • 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/

  • Pandemic recession evokes fears of new lost generation in Japan

    18 Apr 2020 16:28 | JHRS (Administrator)

    OSAKA -- The economic upheaval caused by the coronavirus pandemic risks creating another lost generation of young Japanese job seekers graduating into a deeply scarred economy.

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

  • Japan’s big manufacturers to keep workers amid virus

    17 Apr 2020 16:48 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO: Japan’s large manufacturers will likely keep many of their workers on payrolls even though the coronavirus pandemic has dented automotive, electronics, metal and basic industries, the chief of the Japan Council of Metalworkers’ Unions said.

    Source: https://www.thestar.com.my/

  • Coronavirus hits hiring in Japan's crucial manufacturing sector

    03 Apr 2020 13:12 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The spread of the new coronavirus has begun to affect employment in Japan's critical manufacturing sector and is likely to put significant downward pressure on the economy.

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

  • Japan enacts legislation to facilitate employment until age 70

    01 Apr 2020 13:08 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO--The Diet enacted legislation on Tuesday to spur businesses to let employees work until age 70, in a bid to increase its working population to cover rising social security costs amid an aging and shrinking population.

    Source: https://japantoday.com/

  • More than 1,000 workers may lose jobs in Japan due to virus spread

    31 Mar 2020 13:10 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The number of workers in Japan who are expected to be fired or see their employment contracts not renewed due to the fallout from the outbreak of the new coronavirus is projected to total 1,021, the labor ministry said Tuesday.

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

  • 13% of employees in Japan telecommuting due to coronavirus

    24 Mar 2020 18:12 | JHRS (Administrator)

    About 13 percent of company employees across Japan are working remotely as part of measures to prevent the further spread of the novel coronavirus, the first time for almost half of them, according to the results of a study by a Tokyo-based think tank.

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

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