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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's construction sites seek to be foreigner-friendly workplaces

    06 Sep 2018 15:50 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- Japan's construction businesses appear headed for an even deeper labor shortage despite government efforts to attract foreign workers, unless the industry takes steps to make its jobs more appealing.

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

  • Proposed new residency rules allow work outside their field of study

    06 Sep 2018 15:49 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- Japan will open up a wider path to residency status for international students as soon as next spring, allowing them to work in any field after graduation as long as they clear an annual income threshold of 3 million yen ($26,900).

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

  • Government agencies allegedly padded hiring stats for disabled workers by over 3,000

    25 Aug 2018 14:05 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Government agencies may have padded their hiring records for people with disabilities by well over 3,000 people, informed sources said Saturday.

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

  • Japan firms welcome skilled foreign workers, frown at unskilled laborers: Reuters poll

    20 Aug 2018 14:45 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO (Reuters) - Most Japanese companies support loosening the country’s tight immigration system to cope with a severe labor shortage, but they favor skilled workers who can fit into the workplace, not an influx of unskilled laborers, a Reuters poll shows.

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

  • Japan firms welcome skilled foreign workers, frown at unskilled labourers: Reuters poll

    20 Aug 2018 14:07 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The labour market in fast-ageing Japan is its tightest in nearly half a century and the government has cracked open the door to allow foreigners to work in such areas as farming, at car factories and in convenience stores.

    Source: https://www.moneycontrol.com/

  • Japan probing ministries over padded employment rates of disabled

    17 Aug 2018 14:44 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan has begun investigating ministries and agencies suspected of having padded its employment rates of people with disabilities for over 40 years to match a legal requirement, government sources said Thursday.

    Source: https://mainichi.jp/

  • Japan might give Monday mornings off to workers

    13 Aug 2018 14:38 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The Japanese government is mulling over plans to give Monday mornings off to its workers to fight overwork. The government plans to enact “Shining Monday” – where once a month, workers will get to have a lie-in on Monday morning, and only clock in after lunch.

    Source: https://www.peoplematters.in/

  • Companies across Japan take action to protect employees from unruly customers

    13 Aug 2018 14:37 | JHRS (Administrator)

    A campaign is underway among Japanese companies to clarify rules that protect employees from unruly customers as labor shortages drive public-facing industries to improve their work conditions.

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

  • Japan June real wages rise at fastest pace since 1997

    07 Aug 2018 13:59 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese workers' inflation-adjusted real wages rose in June at the fastest pace in more than 21 years, fuelled by an increase in summer bonuses, government data showed, in an encouraging sign that consumer spending and inflation will pick up.

    Source: https://www.firstpost.com/

  • Japan urges overworked employees to take Monday mornings off

    03 Aug 2018 13:56 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Japan’s government is to urge companies to give employees Monday mornings off in its latest attempt to improve the country’s poor record on work-life balance.

    Source: https://www.theguardian.com/

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