TOKYO -- An increasing number of Japanese companies are hiring foreign employees who have the knowledge and experience to immediately generate results.
Source: http://asia.nikkei.com/
Japanese employers most friendly toward lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) workers were honored at the Pride Index Report awards ceremony, the first of its kind in the country.
Source: http://www.asahi.com/
A government annual survey has found that 31.9 percent of people who started work just after graduating from a university in March 2013 left their job within three years, the labor ministry said.
Source: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/
A Tokyo-based job-matching company is pairing students from Southeast Asian nations, including Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam, with Japanese employers via an online service.
In an effort to overcome a shortage of caregivers at nursing facilities by increasing the number of foreign workers, bills to revise the immigration control law and establish a new law regarding foreign technical trainees are expected to pass during the current Diet session.
Source: http://the-japan-news.com/
TOKYO—Two deaths linked to long job hours at one of Japan’s largest companies have revived concerns over the country’s struggle to curb an excessive work culture.
Source: http://www.wsj.com/
The government plans to expand public support for elderly job seekers by increasing the number of specialized consulting counters for them at Hello Work public job placement offices from the current 80 to about 200 nationwide by fiscal 2020.
Working mothers in Japan are jettisoning their careers and resorting to contract work amid laws that fail to support shorter hours long term. The child care and family care leave law obliges employers to reduce working hours to six a day in principle for those taking care of children under 3 years old and offer them an exemption from overtime work on request.
TOKYO — Working mothers in Japan often change their jobs and turn into contract employees after they become ineligible for shortened working hours at their workplaces, as many of them have a hard time managing child-rearing and long hours of work at the same time.
Source: https://www.japantoday.com/
Six months have passed since a law to promote the active engagement of women in society took effect. About 98 percent of target companies have drawn up an action program to promote women’s careers and have already implemented measures based on those programs, but the remaining companies have yet to submit their plans as the law requires.
Source: http://www.the-japan-news.com/