“The right to disconnect?” Thinking about email responses outside of working hours
◆What is “the right to disconnect”? “The right to disconnect” is the right for workers to be able to refuse [...]
The consciousness of companies regarding the “Work Style Reformation Act”
En-Japan Co., Ltd, the recruiting agency, performed a survey of managers and human resources representatives regarding the "Work Style Reformation [...]
What kind of welfare policies do employees want? Results of a study into corporate welfare policies
Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT) has announced the results of its study into corporate welfare policies. This [...]
Are you here for health insurance? Investigative survey for foreigners
◆Did you come to Japan for the health insurance? There are about 2,560,000 foreign residents. But fraudulent use of the [...]
Popular fringe benefits that are a part of health management (Food & Beverage Edition)
◆ What is health management? The health maintenance of employees is considered to be one of the tasks of company [...]
Enabling the long-term employment of foreign nationals under a new residency status
◆ Draft of the Big-boned Policy The government has concluded the draft of the Basic Policies for Economic and Fiscal [...]
Reducing disparities between non-regular employees and regular employees by lowering allowances for regular employees
◆Lowering allowances for regular employees to achieve “equal pay for equal work” The Japan Post Group will abolish residence allowances [...]
Year 2017 “No Overwork Campaign”: The Results of the Focused Supervision
◆65.9% of all supervised businesses violated the Japanese Labor Standards related laws According to the results of focused supervision during [...]
Elimination of the M-shaped Curve? Working Women in their 30s are Increasing in Japan
◆ Employment Environment Still Good In January of this year, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications published the "Labor [...]
Measures that employers should take to prevent “power harassment” (workplace bullying) presented at the the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare review assembly.
◆ Discussion of prevention measures in progress Regarding the government's "plan to implement reform of the work style" (decided March [...]