The uneasy state of Japan’s welfare system
The LDP and business community have been undermining Japan's lifetime employment system in order to make it easier for employers to hire and fire, and to set salaries to their liking.
Retroactive aid payments eyed for big Japanese firms' nonregular workers
"We'll take into consideration a series of requests that were made in the run-up to the emergency declaration," labor minister Norihisa Tamura said.
Labor ministry to expand scope of virus relief to cover nonregular workers
The proportion of such workers who did not receive compensation despite being told to take time off due to the pandemic was more than double the figure for regular staff.
The number of foreign workers in Japan hit a record high of 1,724,328 as of October 2020, increasing 4.0% from a year earlier.
Nissan to promote Japan-based contract workers to full-time status
About 800 contract workers will become full-time employees from April, as the firm looks also to abolish its system of hiring contract staff.
Japanese government conducts unified tests to hire workers from 'ice age' generation
It is the first such tests to be conducted as part of efforts to support people in their 30s and 40s who struggled to land jobs after Japan's economic bubble collapsed in the early 1990s.
Hitachi Metals to cut 1,000 jobs through voluntary redundancy
Including through attrition and cuts in nonregular workers, the company plans to slash about 3,200 jobs, or nearly 10% of its total workforce.
Japan's top court rules against denying allowances to fixed-term employees
The top court's judgment in favor of nonregular workers came two days after its rulings against them in two other cases.
Japan's top court backs no bonus payment for employee on hourly wage
The Supreme Court ruled that treating an employee on a short-term contract with an hourly wage differently to a regular employee was not unreasonable.
Foreign workers in Japan seek help as pandemic worsens job situation
The pandemic had eliminated more than 50,000 jobs for workers from overseas by the end of August.
Japan pandemic jobless data masks woe of millions, experts say
Analysts point out the low rate does not account for millions — especially women — who gave up their job during the pandemic to care for family.
Japan's single mothers and female workers hard hit by coronavirus
As nationwide unemployment continues to rise, 710,000 of the 970,000-person decrease in nonregular workers compared to last April were women.
