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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 warns firms not to fire pregnant foreign trainees, as interns fear impact on work status

    14 Mar 2019 16:03 | JHRS (Administrator)

    SAPPORO - The government has warned companies against dismissing or unfairly treating foreign trainees who get pregnant while working in the country, officials said Thursday.

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

  • Japan employers propose smaller pay rises for 2019

    13 Mar 2019 16:05 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Announcing their response to union demands in the annual “spring offensive” wage negotiations, Honda proposed a basic wage hike of ¥1,400 per month compared with ¥1,700 last year, while a swathe of electronics companies responded with ¥1,000 compared with ¥1,500 a year ago.

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

  • Cautious Japan Inc offer smaller wage hikes as economy wobbles

    13 Mar 2019 15:49 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO (Reuters) - Big Japanese firms offered smaller pay increases at annual wage talks on Wednesday as the economy sputters, tempering hopes that domestic consumption will offset external risks to growth.

    Source: https://in.reuters.com/

  • Companies offer smaller pay increases amid sputtering economy

    13 Mar 2019 15:48 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Major firms are set to raise wages for a sixth straight year as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe kept up the pressure on businesses to boost pay in an effort to beat deflation that has dogged Japan for nearly two decades.

    Source: https://japantoday.com/

  • Japan to require foreign workers arriving on new visas to submit medical certificates

    11 Mar 2019 16:10 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The Justice Ministry plans to require foreign workers entering the country using new working visas to submit medical certificates, sources with knowledge of the matter have said.

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

  • Japan to step up oversight of employers hiring foreign interns

    10 Mar 2019 15:50 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- Japan will strengthen monitoring of businesses that hire foreign workers under a government-administered technical training program, moving to crack down on illegal overtime hours and nonpayment of wages amid a labor shortage.

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

  • Job-hunting begins for Japan's spring 2020 graduates amid labor crunch

    01 Mar 2019 15:57 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Companies started Friday to offer employment seminars for third-year university students due to graduate in spring 2020, marking the opening of the last job-hunting season under the rules set by Japan’s biggest business lobby.

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

  • January jobless rate edges up as more Japanese women quit jobs to look for better opportunities

    01 Mar 2019 15:56 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The unemployment rate edged up 0.1 percentage point from the previous month to 2.5 percent in January, reflecting a rising number of women quitting their jobs for better positions amid the tightest labor market in decades, government data showed Friday.

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


  • No systematic cover-up of faulty jobs data at labor ministry, investigative panel says

    27 Feb 2019 15:54 | JHRS (Administrator)

    A panel investigating faulty jobs data denied Wednesday that there had been a systematic cover-up at the labor ministry, saying top bureaucrats had been unaware monthly labor surveys were “conducted improperly” for almost 15 years.

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


  • Japan to ease language requirements for foreign nursing care trainees amid sluggish growth in applications

    21 Feb 2019 15:56 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The central government plans to ease language requirements for foreign technical interns in the nursing care sector as part of its efforts to bring in more laborers from abroad, government sources have said.

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

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