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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 workers take only half their paid vacation, survey finds

    18 Dec 2018 18:57 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- Japanese workers took the fewest paid holidays among 19 countries and regions, and only half the time off to which they are entitled, according to an annual survey published Monday by online travel agency Expedia Japan.

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

  • Tokyo to prevent foreign hires from displacing Japanese workers

    14 Dec 2018 18:58 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- Japanese employers can hire foreign-born workers on the condition that they retain current employees doing the same job, according to forthcoming government rules meant to address concerns about recently passed work visa legislation, Nikkei has learned.

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

  • Japan plans to make regional labor markets accessible to new foreign workers

    13 Dec 2018 19:01 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The government plans to take measures to make regional labor markets accessible to foreign blue-collar workers to avoid them concentrating in large cities such as Tokyo when the country starts admitting them under the new visa system next year, the government’s top spokesman said Thursday.

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

  • Japan eyes accords with 8 Asian nations on foreign workers

    11 Dec 2018 19:03 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- The Japanese government will seek bilateral agreements on foreign workers with eight Asian countries, including Vietnam, the Philippines and Indonesia, under a new type of visa to be introduced in April.

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

  • Japan prepares support for incoming foreign workers

    11 Dec 2018 18:12 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- Japan will assemble a package of measures to support an influx of foreign workers following Saturday's passage of a watershed revision to the immigration control law.

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

  • Japan to seek bilateral deals on accepting foreign workers

    11 Dec 2018 18:11 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- The Japanese government will seek to sign bilateral deals on conditions to accept workers from eight Asian countries, taking advantage of a new visa status to be introduced next April.

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

  • In-house lawyers becoming more common in Japan, and nearly half of them are women

    11 Dec 2018 18:05 | JHRS (Administrator)

    In-house lawyers are becoming more common in Japan as a result of judicial system reform that was aimed at boosting the number of legal professionals and companies’ growing need to strengthen their legal work.

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

  • Tokyo firm to help non-Japanese find work under new visa category

    11 Dec 2018 18:04 | JHRS (Administrator)

    A company called one visa Inc., which supports online visa applications, has announced plans to launch new services for foreign workers hoping to come to Japan under a newly created visa category.

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

  • Language skills among foreign care workers a concern for nursing home officials

    10 Dec 2018 18:13 | JHRS (Administrator)

    While a new visa system approved by the Diet, set to take effect in April, has been welcomed by Japan’s labor-short nursing care businesses, questions remain about how to provide sufficient Japanese-language education for foreign workers.

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

  • Japan’s Labor Reform Caps Overtime in a Bid to Curb Karoshi

    10 Dec 2018 18:06 | JHRS (Administrator)

    From low productivity to the death of citizens by overwork, Japan’s labor practices have long maintained a complicated relationship with the country’s workforce. The problem of death by overwork is so prevalent the Japanese have created a word for it: karoshi. On June 29, 2018, Japan passed the “Work Style Reform Law” (the Law) to address some of these issues.

    Source: https://www.natlawreview.com/

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