Japan's Uber Eats delivery staff to get worker insurance coverage
Under current rules, delivery staff who work as sole proprietors may be unable to receive sufficient compensation if they are involved in traffic and other accidents during work.
Is a CEO worth 1,000 times the median worker?
What now gets disclosed is often subject to manipulation, presumably to make the numbers look better.
Government panel warns of widening gender gap in Japan due to pandemic
In a report, the panel of experts said the crisis has led to an increase in domestic violence cases and suicides among women, while also hitting them harder financially.
Young adults in Japan who grew up in foster homes facing 'severe financial difficulties'
First-of-its-kind survey shows 40% of demographic working as nonregular employees.
80% of workers in Japan's creative industries have been harassed within last decade
Some sexual harassment victims complained of unreasonable requests for nudity, while others said they were pressured to give sexual favors in exchange for jobs.
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.
