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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!

  • Subsidies eyed for companies promoting women’s employment

    10 Apr 2015 12:39 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The labor ministry is considering rewarding small and medium-sized companies with subsidies of up to ¥600,000 ($4,997) for achieving numerical and other targets for women’s participation in the workforce, sources said Thursday.

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

  • Japan Inc says sayonara to culture of long working hours

    07 Apr 2015 12:46 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Japan’s salarymen are saying sayonara to the country’s culture of overwork — with the backing of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

    Source: http://www.ft.com/


  • All together now as Japanese start careers

    05 Apr 2015 12:27 | JHRS (Administrator)

    With crisp new suits and fresh haircuts, thousands of Japanese 20-somethings started their first day on the job on Wednesday in an annual ritual that traces back to the country's fast-disappearing jobs-for-life work culture.

    Source: http://www.timeslive.co.za/

  • Legions of new recruits start first day on the job in Japan

    01 Apr 2015 23:48 | JHRS (Administrator)

    With crisp new suits and fresh haircuts, thousands of Japanese twenty-somethings started their first day on the job on Wednesday in an annual ritual that traces back to the country’s fast-disappearing jobs-for-life work culture.

  • More career-track wives working away from families

    01 Apr 2015 00:03 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Tokiko Nakayama speaks to her 6- and 3-year-old sons via her computer at a company apartment for 20 to 30 minutes before going to work every morning.

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

  • Japan's full-timers put in most overtime on record in 2014

    31 Mar 2015 23:52 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The average Japanese full-timer worked 173 hours of overtime last year, according to the Monthly Labor Survey compiled by the labor ministry. That is seven hours longer than in 2013 and 36 more than the tally two decades ago.   

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

  • Japan Post Group to boost hiring in fiscal 2016

    25 Mar 2015 13:44 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Japan Post Group is likely to be Japan's biggest employer for fiscal 2016, with plans to hire about 6,500 new graduates to bolster its short-handed distribution business.

    Source: http://asia.nikkei.com

  • Japanese Companies Grant Biggest Pay Raises in Years

    18 Mar 2015 13:41 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Major Japanese manufacturers lined up Wednesday to give their employees bigger pay raises starting in April, a move that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hopes will rejuvenate his campaign to boost growth and defeat deflation.

    Source: http://www.wsj.com/

  • Govt approves bill so firms can patent employees’ inventions

    14 Mar 2015 12:16 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The government adopted at a cabinet meeting Friday a bill to revise the patent law to allow companies to obtain patents on inventions by their employees. At present, the right to obtain patents belongs to inventors, not to the companies where they are employed.

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

  • Japanese workers could soon be FORCED to take holidays

    14 Mar 2015 12:13 | JHRS (Administrator)

    In Japan working yourself to death is so common they even have a name for it - karoshi. Now the government is trying to cut the number of people who drop dead at their desks by making holidays compulsory.

    Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk

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