Japan passes law to beef up checks on hiring of workers with disabilities after quota scandal
The Diet on Friday passed a bill to strengthen monitoring of the hiring of disabled workers after government ministries and agencies were found last year to have inflated their hiring figures to meet legal quotas for national-level public bodies. The revised law on promoting the ...
Record 35.4% of new hires for Japan's civil service are women, exceeding government target
The Japanese government hired 2,876 women in fiscal 2019, lifting their ratio to all hires beyond its previous high of 34.5 percent marked in fiscal 2016.
754 pass Japanese government's first unified hiring exam for people with disabilities
A total of 754 candidates have passed the government's first unified employment examination for people with disabilities, according to the National Personnel Authority. The examination started early last month and the list of successful applicants was announced Friday. They will start working as civil servants ...
The number of disabled employees at 35 of the 43 state institutions stood below the level required by law as of June 1 this year, the welfare ministry said Tuesday. The actual hiring rate for people with disabilities stood at 1.22 percent, falling short of ...
Japanese government starts accepting exam applications from people with disabilities
The National Personnel Authority began accepting applications on Monday for the first-ever unified examinations to hire people with disabilities as government workers. The exams will be conducted in the wake of an investigation that found central government ministries and agencies had padded the number of ...
An investigation uncovers evidence that the practice started decades ago.
The government is depriving depriving people with disabilities of the job opportunities they deserve.
Government agencies allegedly padded hiring stats for disabled workers by over 3,000
The number accounts for over half of the disabled people the government claimed to have hired to meet the legal ratio.
The revelation of government malpractice in the mandatory employment of people with disabilities should trigger more discussions on what's needed to promote hiring of these people so they can give full play to their potential in the nation's workforce.
The Kanpo: Where everything in Japan goes to happen (officially)
Read all about it in the government's daily gazette, from laws and notices of naughtiness to deaths and even poetry.
White House to propose merging Labor and Education departments: report
The White House plans to propose on Thursday to merge the U.S. Departments of Labor and Education, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Citing a person with knowledge of the proposal, the Journal said the plan follows a review of Cabinet agencies that looked ...
Japan OKs online action plan to streamline process for changing addresses
The government announced Tuesday an action plan focused on streamlining the process for residents to change their addresses with one-stop online access. The plan was adopted during a ministerial meeting on making the government more efficient in the internet age held at the Prime Minister's ...
