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 [...]
Domestic Hiring of Foreign Workers is at a Record High
◆ System of Reporting Employment of Foreigner Workers According to the Employment Measures Act, all companies are obligated to report [...]
Current Status of Work Style Reform and Jita Hara
◆ A year and a half since the launch of Work Style Reform Almost a year and a half has passed [...]
Efforts from companies to reduce passive smoking
◆More than half have “Complete smoker separation” As the country is striving to reduce the impact of passive smoking, companies [...]
Unpaid overtime payments (2016 fiscal year)
◆Announcement for the outcome of the supervision and guidance by the Labor Standards Office The Ministry of Health, Labor and [...]
Job-Seeking Students of Today Attach Importance to “Atmosphere at Work”! An Approach to Eliminate Manpower Shortages
◆“Manpower shortages” are growing more severe According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the Job-Offers-to-Applicants Ratio for April [...]