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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 sees record employment for univ. graduates amid labor shortage

    19 May 2017 13:56 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A record-high 97.6 percent of new university graduates in Japan have landed jobs as of the April 1 start of the 2017 business year, government data showed Friday, reflecting demand from companies amid the nation's labor shortage.

    Source: http://asia.nikkei.com/

  • Can Japan, land of lifetime employment, handle the rise of freelancers?

    14 May 2017 13:35 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The rise of freelancing represents a significant shift from Japan’s traditional lifetime employment system. After serving as the main pillar of the postwar labor system for decades, lifetime employment has virtually collapsed amid the multiple recessions brought on by the bubble economy’s implosion in the early 1990s and the 2008 global financial crisis.

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

  • Govt names over 300 companies, in bid to prevent abuses and death by overwork

    13 May 2017 13:41 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO • The Japanese government has for the first time released a nationwide list of over 300 companies that have violated labour laws, hoping this name-and-shame tactic would help eliminate abuses and prevent "karoshi", or death by overwork.

    Source: http://www.straitstimes.com/

  • Companies squirm as tricky labor law revision on switching employment status closes in

    08 May 2017 13:37 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The issue of whether to give nonregular workers permanent status has bedeviled companies and employees alike, especially with the end of a five-year waiting period on a labor law revision looming in less than a year.

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

  • Survey: Female workers in managerial jobs rise to 8.3%

    05 May 2017 12:31 | JHRS (Administrator)

    About 80 percent of major companies in Japan have increased the proportion of female employees in managerial posts — meaning section chief or higher — since the Law on Promotion of Women’s Participation and Advancement in the Workplace was enforced in April 2016, according to a Yomiuri Shimbun survey.

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

  • Most nonregular workers ignorant of new labor rule allowing for indefinite employment: survey

    05 May 2017 12:29 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Most nonregular workers are unaware of a new rule that enables them to work until mandatory retirement age after spending five years at the same company, an online survey has shown.

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

  • Yamato to hire 9,000 new workers, covering payroll costs through fee hike

    03 May 2017 12:27 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Leading parcel delivery provider Yamato Holdings Co. is aiming to hire about 9,200 new workers in the current year through next March to reduce overtime among delivery personnel, company sources said Wednesday.

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

  • Japan – Labour shortage fuels growth in permanent workers

    03 May 2017 12:25 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The number of permanent jobs in Japan grew by 260,000 in March when compared to a year ago, rising for the first time since the global financial crisis and outpacing growth in temporary jobs over the past two years.

    Source: http://www2.staffingindustry.com/

  • Job openings ratio increases to highest level since 1990

    29 Apr 2017 12:59 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry reported Friday that the country’s average ratio of job openings to seekers in the year that ended last month rose 0.16 points from the previous year to 1.39, the highest score since it hit 1.43 in fiscal 1990, when Japan was still in an asset bubble-led boom.

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

  • 71% support equal pay for equal work

    25 Apr 2017 13:00 | JHRS (Administrator)
    Seventy-one percent of poll respondents think equal compensation should be paid to those who have the same ability, performance and length of service as other employees, regardless of their employment status as regular or non-regular workers, according to a Yomiuri Shimbun survey conducted between mid-March and mid-April by mail.


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

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