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Workforce Management Newsletter - January 2025
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has published Q&As on amendments to the Child Care and Family Care Leave Act that will come into effect in stages from 1 April 2025.
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Effective 1 November 2024, freelancers have become eligible to enrol in workers’ accident compensation insurance under a ‘special enrolment’ system, due to an amendment to the relevant law.
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An Act partially amending the Child and Childcare Support Act (‘Revised Childcare Support Act’) was promulgated on 12 June 2024.
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The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has published a circular regarding treatment of telecommuting allowance that may be included in calculating premium pay for employees.
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The ordinary session of the Japanese Diet is currently deliberating a bill to partially amend the Child Care and Family Care Leave Act and the Act on Promotion of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children.
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The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has published a new list of Q&As regarding expanding the scope of health and welfare pension insurance coverage for part-time workers effective from October 2024.
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The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has implemented a package seeking to mitigate the effects of existing ‘annual income ceilings’, which have thus far acted as a financial disincentive for part-time workers to work beyond a certain number of hours per year.
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Currently, employers in Japan must clearly indicate certain specific working conditions when recruiting workers. Effective from 1 April 2024, the list of items that must be indicated by employers will increase.
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This newsletter covers the topics such as amendments to the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labour Standards Act and related public notices,guidelines for teleworking after downgrading the legal status of COVID-19, and others.
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This newsletter covers the topic of digital wage payments, Guidelines on Respecting Human Rights in Responsible Supply Chains and others.
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Minimum wages for fiscal 2022 by region took effect on and after October 1. The national weighted average of minimum hourly wages became JPY961, an increase of JPY31 from the previous year.
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This newsletter focuses on expansion of health and welfare pension insurance coverage, disclosure of wage gap, and workmen's compensation for post COVID-19 condition.
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The government announced its policy to continue special measures for employment adjustment subsidies until September 2022.
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This newsletter highlights updates on employment adjustment subsidies, childcare leave, and the Japan-Sweden social security agreement.
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The maximum daily amount of Employment Adjustment Subsidies will be reduced in March 2022.
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It had been announced that the maximum daily subsidy amount under the Employment Adjustment Subsidy was to be reduced in stages from January 2021. The maximum daily subsidy amount for the Financial Assistance and Benefits for Absence from Work in response to COVID-19 will also be reduced from January 2022.
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This newsletter highlights subsidies and benefits related to COVID-19 infections, "Special Measures for Employment Adjustment Subsidies up to November" and "Subsidies and Financial Assistance for Elementary Schools Closure etc due to COVID-19 infections".
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This newsletter is an introduction to the latest status of the subsidies and benefits provided to help respond to the current COVID-19 situation, including the "Special Measures for Employment Adjustment Subsidies up to September 2021."
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On June 3, 2021, the Diet enacted a law to partially amend the Child Care and Family Care Leave Law and the Unemployment Insurance Law.
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With regard to the subsidies and benefits available for responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have provided the latest information along with updates on the systems that are available.
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We have summarized the latest labour-law related updates with regards to subsidies and benefits related to the response to COVID-19, and so on.
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Applications for subsidies and benefits in response to COVID-19 will be further extended.
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We have summarized the latest labour-law related updates with regards to applications for subsidies and benefits related to the response to COVID-19 were extended until December 31, 2020, and so on.
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We have summarized the latest labour-law related updates with regards to COVID-19 including the application process for the benefit payment system for workers.
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We have summarized the latest labour-law related updates with regards to COVID-19.
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We have summarized important information in employment issues related to COVID-19.
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The required measures to be taken by April 2020 in accordance with the laws on the workstyle reform are explained.
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Effective as of June 1, 2020, a partial amendment was made to the Law on Active Participation and Advancement of Women in the Workplace, which also includes the establishment of legislation to prevent power harassment.
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On August 30, 2019, the Ministerial Ordinance for Partial Revision of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Health Insurance Act, etc. was published to introduce the requirement to reside in Japan.
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