In this bulletin…
- “Special grant of 1 trillion yen can be used to compensate for closures”: government changes policy
- Employment adjustment subsidies to see further expansion
- Companies to be required to let pregnant women take time off, based on doctor’s judgment
- Fuji Soba, with sales down due to COVID-19, gives full compensation for cut shifts in response to union demand
- NOVA insists teachers come to work, even for online lessons — teachers may strike
- Dispatch and contract employees “no choice but to come in to work”: more and more complaints during COVID-19 crisis
- Man punished for attending meeting without a mask because he “wasn’t able to buy one”
- Government assess economy to be “deteriorating” for the first time in 11 years
- 260,000 fewer non-regular workers due to coronavirus: record drop
And more!