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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 labor crunch is reshaping how companies attract workers

    01 Aug 2018 14:00 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO (Reuters) - Misaki Harada wants to quit her job as a receptionist at a restaurant management company in Tokyo and move into marketing for an apparel maker.

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

  • Japan likely to raise bonuses for government workers for fifth year

    28 Jul 2018 15:47 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The National Personnel Authority is scrutinizing government survey data on private-sector bonuses for winter 2017 and summer 2018 before making recommendations on government pay revisions to the Diet and the Cabinet as soon as early August.

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

  • Fourth-generation Japanese descendants overseas seek to bring in families under new residency program

    20 Jul 2018 14:09 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The new residency program introduced last year to give fourth-generation descendants of Japanese overseas opportunities to live and work in Japan has raised hopes the government will ease the conditions to let family members come along — a privilege afforded to third-generation descendants.

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

  • Japan's 5-year worker visa extended to manufacturing

    20 Jul 2018 14:04 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- Japan's new residency program for overseas workers will be expanded to include key yet understaffed manufacturing fields that supply parts to automakers and other mainstay industries.

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

  • Number of nonregular workers in Japan hits record high in 2017

    14 Jul 2018 14:01 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- Japan had the highest number of nonregular workers in 2017, the government said Friday, reflecting the growing number of elderly people working after retirement.

    Source: https://japantoday.com/

  • Labor costs hit 16-year high as Japan pays workers more

    06 Jul 2018 11:53 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- Personnel expenses at Japan's large corporations have grown to their highest level in 16 years as a deepening shortage of workers has forced them to increase pay for part-timers.

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

  • Survey begun to aid pregnant employees

    06 Jul 2018 11:50 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The health ministry began its first-ever national survey earlier this month on the working conditions for pregnant women employed by small and medium-sized companies, as part of efforts to implement work style reforms to support them, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.

    Source: http://the-japan-news.com/

  • Death by overwork: Japan's Parliament tightens limits on overtime hours

    04 Jul 2018 17:36 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Japan’s Parliament tightened limits on overtime hours, responding to concerns about karoshi, or death by overwork, and seeking to improve productivity in a country where long hours are often more a custom than business necessity.

    Source: https://www.business-standard.com/

  • Japan urges companies to invest more in their workers

    03 Jul 2018 17:27 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- Japanese employers and employees will have to work together to improve workers' skills or risk being left behind by the digital revolution, according to the upcoming Annual Report on the Japanese Economy and Public Finance 2018.

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

  • Two Japan Supreme Court cases clarify when discrimination against fixed-term workers is OK

    24 Jun 2018 12:03 | JHRS (Administrator)

    June 1, 2018, is a day that will go down in Japanese labor law history. A single day saw two verdicts from two similar cases handed down by the Supreme Court, both based on the 2012 amendment to the Labor Contract Law.

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

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