- Paternity leave to be established for husbands “directly after wife gives birth”, offering more generous benefits than childcare leave
- MEXT issues notice on schooling support for children of foreign nationality, with consideration to entrance exams, etc.
- Government considers extending special exemption for employment adjustment subsidy to October or later, due to lengthening coronavirus crisis
- National government asked to make sure dispatch companies keep dispatch workers employed
- “Terminated for unfair reason” – after-school care teachers file complaint at Labor Commission
- Rapid rise in number of companies inviting early retirement, with full-timers included in cuts
- Businesses asking about closing total over 70,000, increasing by 20,000 in a month, with further increase feared – MHWL
- Number of oath-declared couples breaks 100 in Yokohama City’s partnership system
- “Longest since the war” no more: economic expansion shorter than thought
- “M/F” disappearing from application forms as companies move to stop making distinctions based on gender
- 18.2% increase in number of new job seekers: June 2020 shows largest rate of increase since statistics have been kept
- Rate of parental leave taken by men at 7.48%, despite increasing over previous year
And More!
(Translated from Japanese)