Youth job support program to cover unemployed Japanese up to 50 years old
The labor ministry has decided to expand the scope of its youth job support initiative to cover people up to age 50 to cope with an increase in middle-aged people out of work, according to informed sources. The ministry now finds it necessary to give ...
Recession signs stoke concern for Trump as 2020 election fast approaches
U.S. President Donald Trump is warning of an economic crash if he loses re-election, arguing that even voters who personally dislike him should base their ballots on the nation's strong growth and low unemployment rate. But privately, Trump is growing increasingly worried the economy won't ...
Why normal times will not return
The tiny silicon chip has placed power in mass hands to an unprecedented degree, and drastically weakened old political hierarchies in both democracies and autocracies alike.
Mississippi poultry plant axed workers left after immigration sweep, advocates say
A Mississippi chicken processing plant fired most of its remaining workers after nearly 100 accused of immigration violations were arrested last week, witnesses said, an indication that the crackdown could make finding work in the state's poultry industry more difficult for Latino immigrants. Terry Truett, ...
U.S. businesses have cautious expansion plans as economy weakens
Ron Pierce has one eye on expanding his information technology business and the other on something he can't control: the economy. "I'm not afraid to expand my company, but I realize that a recession may be coming and that any expansion could have me reducing ...
Lacking in-house role models, Japanese women in management have to look elsewhere for advice
In Japan's largely male-dominated industries, women who have been promoted to managerial posts are increasingly seeking job advice from external female mentors because of a lack of in-house role models. Momoko Kubota, a 33-year-old section chief in a sales department at SoftBank Corp., is one. ...
Flexible work style — can it be sustainable?
We see signs of what can drive a transformation of the way people work in Japan. What we need is to make these moves and developments sustainable.
Scandal-hit Yoshimoto Kogyo urged to sign written contracts with its 6,000 entertainers
Scandal-hit artists' agency Yoshimoto Kogyo Co. is being urged to exchange written contracts with the comedians, actors and athletes on its books. The recommendation came after the first meeting of a management advisory panel that Yoshimoto set up after the revelation that several of its ...
Japan's civil servants get nod for sixth consecutive wage hike
The National Personnel Authority has advised the Cabinet and Diet to raise salaries and bonuses for national government employees in fiscal 2019. It will be the sixth consecutive pay hike for civil servants. The agency on Wednesday called for raising monthly salaries by an average ...
Womenomics 20 years on: Has anything changed?
The desire for greater work-life balance is no longer just for women, but for all of Japanese society.
Japan Post to end Saturday standard mail delivery due to job crunch and drop in demand
A government panel decided to end Saturday delivery for standard mail due to a labor shortage and a drop in demand because of increased use of the internet.
White House chief's comments confirm agency transfers to Kansas are meant to cut ranks, union says
A federal employees union charged Tuesday that recent comments by acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney confirm the Trump administration's "grand strategy" to cut the federal workforce by relocating agency offices out of Washington. Mulvaney said last week that the U.S. Department of ...
