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Japanese firms circumventing traditional hiring timetable to find quality recruits
It's a rite of spring: Major corporations hire fresh university graduates en masse every April, starting them all at the same salary with assurances of rising pay and lifetime employment. But lately, some companies, including Rakuten, SoftBank and Line Corp., are breaking with that tradition, ...
Regulations regarding employment of disabled workers to be strengthened
The government has decided to toughen regulations for the employment of disabled workers after ministries and agencies were found to have inflated their employment figures to meet legal quotas, sources close to the matter said Sunday. A bill to be submitted to the Diet next ...
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 mulls promoting telecommuting to hire more disabled people
The government will promote telecommuting to hire more people with disabilities, according to informed sources. The call will go out for ministries and agencies to consider measures by the end of March to make it easier for disabled officials to use telecommuting programs, mainly by ...
The problem with padding employment records in Japan
In August, it was reported that central government ministries and agencies, not to mention national legislative offices and local governments, have for years been fulfilling their legal responsibility to hire certain numbers of people with disabilities by fudging criteria for determining what qualifies as ...
Startup takes stress out of fed-up workers' exit plans
There was the 24-year-old insurance saleswoman who got sick of being yelled at when she couldn't reach her quota. Then there's the exhausted designer who clocked 160 hours of monthly overtime. And the ramen noodle shop employee who suffered stress to the point of ...
At least 11 Japanese local governments have been found to have padded data on the proportion of people with disabilities on their payrolls. The education board of Tochigi Prefecture said Wednesday they had included workers who were taking leave due to mental illnesses as employees ...
How three women shattered glass ceilings to become the first female chief economists at global banks
There's a particular telephone conversation that HSBC Global Chief Economist Janet Henry has down pat. Here's how it goes: "You get a call from a headhunter," she says. Then Henry inevitably finds herself saying, "No, I'm not interested." But it doesn't end there. "They always ...
Japan faces challenges as it moves to accept more foreign workers
Japan's move toward opening its doors to more foreign workers is widely seen as a must to better cope with an expected shrinkage in the working population. Potentially broadening the scope of non-Japanese workers accepted into a country that for years has kept a firm ...
U.K. Cabinet ministers were infuriated this week by an apparent government breach of a protocol that prevents ill or heavily pregnant politicians from being forced to attend Parliament to vote, to the disadvantage of a representative currently on maternity leave. Pro-EU Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader ...
Shareholder meetings: What's your version?
Regardless of our employment status, it is imperative for us to constantly think how we can increase our value.
Japan mega-bank MUFG considers job cuts in overseas brokerage business
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. is considering job cuts at its securities operations overseas to keep them profitable. The brokerage arm of Japan's biggest bank may reduce its head count in the U.K. and the U.S., reflecting market conditions, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings Co. CEO ...
