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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!

  • Labor costs hit 16-year high as Japan pays workers more

    06 Jul 2018 11:53 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- Personnel expenses at Japan's large corporations have grown to their highest level in 16 years as a deepening shortage of workers has forced them to increase pay for part-timers.

    Source: https://asia.nikkei.com/

  • Survey begun to aid pregnant employees

    06 Jul 2018 11:50 | JHRS (Administrator)

    The health ministry began its first-ever national survey earlier this month on the working conditions for pregnant women employed by small and medium-sized companies, as part of efforts to implement work style reforms to support them, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.

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

  • Death by overwork: Japan's Parliament tightens limits on overtime hours

    04 Jul 2018 17:36 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Japan’s Parliament tightened limits on overtime hours, responding to concerns about karoshi, or death by overwork, and seeking to improve productivity in a country where long hours are often more a custom than business necessity.

    Source: https://www.business-standard.com/

  • Japan urges companies to invest more in their workers

    03 Jul 2018 17:27 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO -- Japanese employers and employees will have to work together to improve workers' skills or risk being left behind by the digital revolution, according to the upcoming Annual Report on the Japanese Economy and Public Finance 2018.

    Source: https://asia.nikkei.com/

  • Two Japan Supreme Court cases clarify when discrimination against fixed-term workers is OK

    24 Jun 2018 12:03 | JHRS (Administrator)

    June 1, 2018, is a day that will go down in Japanese labor law history. A single day saw two verdicts from two similar cases handed down by the Supreme Court, both based on the 2012 amendment to the Labor Contract Law.

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

  • Quarter of Japanese workers confess they want to kill their boss

    22 Jun 2018 12:08 | JHRS (Administrator)

    More than one-quarter of the Japanese workers taking part in a survey admitted that the thought of killing their boss had crossed their mind on at least one occasion, underlining the stresses that employees here are often under.

    Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/

  • Second jobs, once rare in Japan, are reshaping attitudes about work

    15 Jun 2018 13:47 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Workers are signing up for second jobs in record numbers to earn extra cash as wages stagnate, stirring hopes of a rise in consumer spending but adding to fears of overwork in a society notorious for long hours.

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

  • Japan set to loosen immigration rules for guest workers

    13 Jun 2018 13:41 | JHRS (Administrator)

    Japan is poised to adopt a new approach to immigration that will allow up to 500,000 guest workers into the country to ease labour shortages.

    Source: https://www.ft.com/

  • Undocumented workers in a constant state of uncertainty

    09 Jun 2018 13:54 | JHRS (Administrator)

    People who live in a state of daily desperation sometimes react to their circumstances with violence against others or themselves and, while such actions are a manifestation of frustration, they can also alert the larger world to that frustration, even if it wasn’t intended.

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

  • Surveys find young generation in Japan positive about changing jobs

    04 Jun 2018 14:12 | JHRS (Administrator)

    TOKYO--Japan's young generation is positive about changing jobs, recent surveys have found, highlighting a shift in attitudes as more employment opportunities arise.

    Source: https://japantoday.com/

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