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2022.02.01
- Revision to the labor laws and regulations
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Childcare Leave Law revision from April 2022
Dear all As you know, the revised Childcare Leave Law will be in effective in two parts, in April and October. PMP has prepared a set of documents necessary for the revised Childcare Leave Law from April2022. If you are interested, please fe…
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2021.10.29
- Revision to the labor laws and regulations
Childcare Leave Law -Japan’s overly complicated system-
Here is a general overview of the Childcare Leave Law in Japan. You can easily find just a simple English summary of childcare leave in Japan, but there should be little or no information in English that covers the matters set forth in the Childcare…
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2021.03.05
- Revision to the labor laws and regulations
Announcement of mid-career recruitment information in Corporate HP – starting April 1
The revised Law for the Comprehensive Promotion of Labor Policies will come into effect on April 1.The purpose is to promote mid-career hiring. PMP Note) The background of this law revision is as follow; - The labor market liq…
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2020.10.05
- Revision to the labor laws and regulations
Child and Family Care Time Hourly Increments #2
As per the PMP Newsletter on January 22 https://www.pmp.co.jp/english/revision_to_the_labor_laws_and_regulations/602/ , the changes to the Child and Family Care Leave Act are effective from January 1, 2021. Hence prior to January 1, please do …
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2020.02.18
- Revision to the labor laws and regulations
Measures to prevent “Power Harassment”
Although Power Harassment has been a major social problem for a while now, there has been no clear legal standard as to what actually fall under “Power Harassment”. As a consequence, the actual situation was that claims for damages, obligations …
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2020.01.22
- Revision to the labor laws and regulations
Child and Family Care Time Hourly Increments
Effective January 1, 2021 there is an amendment to the Childcare and Family Leave Act, that allows for hourly usage of the Childcare and Family Care Time. The aim of this amendment is to allow workers greater flexibility around the taking of bot…
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2019.12.27
- Revision to the labor laws and regulations
Power Harassment – Draft Guidelines Announcement
During the most recent sitting of the Diet the enacted changes to the Labor Laws that have received the most attention is with regard to Power Harassment. The amended and now entitled “Comprehensive Promotion of Labour Policy, Stabilisation of W…
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2019.04.25
- Revision to the labor laws and regulations
Changes to the Labor and Industrial Safety Acts – Part 1 Understanding Working Hours
The changes to the Labor and related Laws that were effective April 1 has seen increased consultations around the approaches that need to be taken to ensure Compliance here in Japan. There has been significant interest in the revised 36 Agreemen…
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2019.04.02
- Revision to the labor laws and regulations
－Revised Labor Standards Act – Annual Leave
With regards to the changes to the Labor Law regarding paid annual leave, if you are to summarise it would be, for those workers who are granted 10 days or more of paid annual leave, it is now a requirement for the Employer to ensure that the wo…
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2019.03.25
- Revision to the labor laws and regulations
– Revised Labor Standards Act / Revised Industrial Safety Act – 36 Kyotei Administration Part 2 (Special Provisions)
The previous PMP newsletter covered the changes to the administration of 36 Kyotei. In this newsletter, we will focus on “36 Kyotei with Special Provisions, coming into effect April 1, 2019” (hereinafter referred to as “36 Kyotei-SP”) It is b…