- Employment adjustment subsidies: ¥2.5 trillion paid to 2.1 million recipients
- List of public benefits for living support, including COVID-19 related
- For pregnant women taking time off, requirement of consideration extended through January of 2022–COVID infection fears
- Large companies to see maximum subsidy rate raised to 100%–employment adjustment subsidy special measures
- “Points for Attention Concerning Response to COVID-19 in Elementary, Junior High and High Schools with Reference to the Emergency Declaration Based on the Novel Influenza and Other Diseases Special Measures Act (Notice)”, Jan. 8, 2021 – MHWL
- “We are just disposable pawns”: Eight employees of Fuji Soba file for a labor tribunal seeking back-payment of overtime
- 38% of LGBT people have experienced sexual victimization: 10,000 people surveyed
- Leave payments given to only 30% of women working part-time, half as many as full-timers; many go unpaid
- Public high-school application forms in 41 prefectures abolish “sex”: “unrelated to selection process”
- Part-timers, etc., account for half of “COVID layoffs”: MHWL statistics make size of impact clear
- And more!
(Translated from Japanese)