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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 unemployment rate falls to 22-year low of 2.8% in February

    31 Mar 2017 13:44 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Japan’s unemployment rate fell to 2.8 percent in February, the lowest in more than 22 years, offering a positive sign for the country’s economy, government data showed Friday.

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

  • Japan’s foreign residents offer up insights in unprecedented survey on discrimination

    31 Mar 2017 13:42 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Rent application denials, Japanese-only recruitment and racist taunts are among the most rampant forms of discrimination faced by foreign residents in Japan, according to the results of the country’s first nationwide survey on the issue, released Friday.

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

  • Japan looks to reward 'good' employers of foreign trainees

    27 Mar 2017 23:10 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- The Japanese labor ministry will lengthen the internship period for foreign technical trainees from three years to five at employers with good track records, seeking to improve a program marred by poor working conditions.

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

  • 84% of Japan’s top companies rethinking their working hours

    27 Mar 2017 23:06 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Seventy-two of 86 major Japanese companies are changing or re-examining their working hours, a survey on work-style reforms revealed Friday. The survey by Jiji Press found that tackling the issue is a pressing challenge for corporate Japan. The rethink was spurred by recent revelations that many firms force employees to work illegally long hours.

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

  • Holiday loophole allows employers to circumvent overtime limits

    23 Mar 2017 23:12 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Despite an agreement reached by the government, businesses and a labor union that caps annual overtime at 720 hours, there apparently is a loophole that allows up to 960 hours of overtime if employees work on holidays.

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

  • Part-time wages surging in Japan amid worker shortages

    22 Mar 2017 23:29 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- Japan's part-time wages are on the rise, with the February hourly average breaking the 1,000 yen ($8.94) mark, as companies sweeten offers to recruit restaurant workers and administrative staff in a tight labor market.

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

  • Corporate Japan test drives internships in race for talent

    21 Mar 2017 23:25 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- Employers in Japan are stepping up recruitment via internships to secure young university-trained prospects as competition in the domestic labor market intensifies.

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

  • Subsidized child care slightly raises women's employment in Japan

    21 Mar 2017 15:26 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe began a campaign called "womenomics" in 2013 in a bid to empower women and boost the economy by increasing female participation in the labor force. Womenomics has been an integral part of Abe's policy package, dubbed Abenomics, and one of its three main goals is to push up the birthrate to 1.8 by providing 500,000 additional child care slots from 2016 to 2018.

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

  • Japan’s college graduates have rare luxury of too many jobs available

    20 Mar 2017 13:22 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Graduate recruitment in Japan looks a bit like a scene from the movie The Matrix. Hordes of students dressed in identical black suits and white shirts make the rounds of seminars, tests and interviews. Even as jobs outnumber applicants, these “Agent Smiths” still fight it out for coveted positions at big-name companies, while leaving smaller employers out in the cold.

    Source: http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/

  • Push for foreign students to stay on to work in Japan

    17 Mar 2017 13:14 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Japan is hiring foreign talent and it is now a top priority that international students attending Japanese universities stay on in the country, with the government offering new incentives such as subsidised company internships, help with finding jobs on graduation, stepped-up Japanese language courses and more streamlined processes for work visas after graduation.

    Source: http://www.universityworldnews.com/

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