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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!

  • Sharp reportedly axes 5,000 employees, shifts focus to smartphone displays

    10 May 2013 10:43 | JHRS (Administrator)
    Sharp will reportedly be laying off 5,000 employees as part of a three-year recovery plan to turn the company around. According to The Asahi Shimbun, the number of directors and advisory positions will be cut in half, and the number of employees at Sharp’s main office in Osaka, Japan will be reduced by 50%. Additional layoffs are also expected in China and Malaysia. In an effort to increase profits, the company will be revising its focus to producing smartphone displays, large-sized HDTV sets and 4K TVs. Sharp will reportedly announce its three-year recovery plan next Tuesday.

    Source: http://news.yahoo.com

  • Yahoo! Japan to offer employees one-year sabbaticals

    02 May 2013 13:09 | JHRS (Administrator)
    Yahoo! Japan President Manabu Miyasaka announced at a recent press conference that the company would introduce a new system by the end of the current fiscal year which allows employees to take up to one year off from their jobs. The system, which is based on the concept of sabbaticals, allows employees to spend up to one year freely pursing whatever they desire, albeit without pay. Though fairly common in the West, offering such a system of leave is very rare for a Japanese company.

    Source: http://www.japantoday.com/

  • Japan's jobless rate drops

    30 Apr 2013 13:03 | JHRS (Administrator)
    Japan's unemployment rate dropped 0.2 percent to 4.1 percent in March from 4.3 percent in February, said Japan's internal affairs ministry Tuesday in a preliminary report.

    Source: http://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/

  • Japan manufacturing, hiring rise in March

    30 Apr 2013 13:01 | JHRS (Administrator)
    Japan manufacturing and employment showed slight improvements in March, buttressing hopes that the economy may be headed for a moderate recovery.

    Source: http://news.yahoo.com/

  • Japan To Increase Foreign Workers: Official

    30 Apr 2013 12:43 | JHRS (Administrator)
    The Japanese government is considering increasing the number of foreign engineers and researchers into the country to 100,000, Japan's JIJI Press reported, quoting Senior Vice Minister at the Cabinet Office, Yasutoshi Nishimura, as saying Monday.

    Source: http://www.bernama.com

  • UNIQLO introduces equal pay system across its stores worldwide

    26 Apr 2013 13:56 | JHRS (Administrator)
    Tadashi Yanai, chairman and director of Fast Retailing and the main force behind the expansion of Japanese clothes retailer UNIQLO, has recently made public his intentions to introduce a worldwide universal wage system for shop managers and high ranking employees.

    Source: http://www.japantoday.com/

  • Gov't plans to increase number of foreign English teachers to 10,000

    24 Apr 2013 14:00 | JHRS (Administrator)
    An advisory panel to the Education Ministry has recommended to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) that Japan increases the number of foreign English teachers at schools to 10,000 from the current 4,360 by reviving the JET program.

    Source: http://www.japantoday.com/

  • Firms vexed on older workers

    24 Apr 2013 12:37 | JHRS (Administrator)

    According to the survey on the revised Law for the Stabilization of Employment of Elderly People, which was put into force this month, many companies have taken measures to reduce labour costs, such as making large cuts in salaries of employees aged between 60 and 65 compared with those approaching retirement. Some companies have started to curb new hires and cut salaries of employees aged under 60.

    Source: http://www.asiaone.com/

  • Japan’s Abe: Too few women in boardrooms

    19 Apr 2013 18:01 | JHRS (Administrator)
    The request was polite and the scale was hardly European in ambition, but Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe moved Friday to compel corporate Japan to promote more women to executive roles, asking business leaders to set a target of at least one female executive per company.

    Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/

  • Japan Steel Works Falls as Employees Take Time Off: Tokyo Mover

    15 Apr 2013 18:11 | JHRS (Administrator)

    About 500 workers, or 70 percent of the total workforce at the Muroran plant on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, have accepted a proposal by the company to take about two days off a month for the six months starting mid April, spokesman Akito Aiuchi said today by telephone, confirming the Nikkei newspaper’s report on April 13.

    Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/

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