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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!

  • Japanese firms encourage their dozy workers to sleep on the job

    18 Aug 2014 12:20 | JHRS (Administrator)

    In Japan, where workers get less sleep on work nights than those in other countries, more and more companies are encouraging employees to sleep on the job, convinced that it leads to better work performance.

    Source: http://www.theguardian.com/

  • Nonprofit group aims to help female students meet their potential

    18 Aug 2014 12:17 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Tokyo-based nonprofit organization Hanalabs is offering female college students in Japan a chance to advance their careers by devising solutions to social problems affecting communities in need of revitalization.

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

  • Nissan Japan Employees Join Habitat for Humanity in Tohoku

    15 Aug 2014 11:52 | JHRS (Administrator)

    20 Nissan employees in Japan are hard at work in the Tohoku region of Japan, working with Habitat for Humanity to restore the region to a state comparable to that prior to the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

    Source: http://thenewswheel.com/

  • Division between temporary, regular employment should be addressed

    14 Aug 2014 12:10 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Regular workers on the corporate payroll are afforded employment security, despite often being required to work overtime and accept job relocation. Meanwhile, nonregular employees are poorly paid in many cases, and their employment status is unstable.

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

  • 70% of university graduates have found employment

    12 Aug 2014 11:39 | JHRS (Administrator)

    According to the education ministry’s preliminary School Basic Survey report released Thursday, 372,662 graduates, or 65.9 percent, are regular employees while more than 100,000 new graduates are working as part-timers or temps or have no jobs.

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

  • 8% of employees in charge of corporate data admit mismanagement: Trend Micro poll

    04 Aug 2014 11:27 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The survey was conducted from June 23 to 25 on corporate employees in charge of data management, given the recent case of Benesse Corp. in which personal information on millions of customers was illegally stolen by a man with access to the company’s database.

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

  • Firms’ employee health criteria for diabetes vary

    02 Aug 2014 11:30 | JHRS (Administrator)

    About one-third of companies do not know whether their employees have diabetes. Each company also has different criteria regarding the results of health checkups when encouraging employees to consult with doctors, according to a survey conducted by a doctor and others.

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

  • Japan’s workers still wait for wage boost

    31 Jul 2014 11:34 | JHRS (Administrator)
    Six months after Japanese workers were told by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to prepare for a “wage surprise” many are still waiting, seeing incomes eaten away by the fastest inflation in more than three decades.


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

  • Japan's June unemployment rate rises to 3.7 pct

    29 Jul 2014 12:08 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Japan's unemployment rate in June rose 0.2 percentage point from the previous month to 3.7 percent, marking the first rise in 10 months, the Japanese Internal Affairs Ministry said Tuesday.

    Source: http://www.shanghaidaily.com

  • It’s a Woman’s World in Japan’s Jobs Recovery

    29 Jul 2014 12:04 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has trumpeted the need to get more women in the workforce as key to putting the world’s third-largest economy on the path to long-term growth. The proportion of females in Japan’s overall labor force lags many other rich nations and with the population rapidly aging, economists say maintaining growth will depend on getting more women working.

    Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/

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