Japanese companies have been told to wake up and treat their female employees better.
To maintain a quality workforce amid the shrinking labor pool, firms must put an end to unnecessarily long overtime and stop making it difficult for employees to take child-care leave, an OECD official in charge of social policy said Tuesday.
Willem Adema, project manager of the OECD family-friendly policy reviews, presented a report on how taxes, social benefits, child care and employment policies affect the lives of working parents and influence the formation of families.