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4 temp firms ‘in 300 mil. yen tax dodge’
Four temporary staffing agencies in three prefectures have been accused of evading more than 300 million yen in consumption tax by establishing dummy companies to which they pretended to outsource job placements, The Yomiuri Shimbun learned Thursday. The revelation comes at a time when the national tax authorities have been stepping up investigations into evasion…
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Recruiter held over dispatch of trainee
Police on Wednesday arrested the representative director of an Okayama-based recruitment cooperative on suspicion of illegally dispatching an Indonesian trainee to an unauthorized local factory. The Okayama and Hiroshima prefectural police jointly began investigating Keisuke Tsuruno, 60, the representative director of Sanyo Intec, earlier in the day on suspicion of violating the Immigration Control and…
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Osaka Labor Bureau probes Yamada Denki
The Maebashi-based firm, one of the nation’s largest consumer electronics retailers, is suspected of ordering the salespeople to confirm and promise to follow 35 instructions on a checklist at the Labi 1 Namba outlet in Naniwa Ward, Osaka. The labor bureau will clarify the circumstances surrounding the dispatched salespeople. The outlet has not revealed how…
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Japan Mulls Importing Foreign Workers
The prospect of a shrinking, rapidly aging population is spurring a debate about whether Japan is so insular that it once barred foreigners from its shores for two centuries should open up to more foreign workers. Japan’s 2 million registered foreigners, 1.57 percent of the population, are at a record high but minuscule compared with…
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Japan salvages its older workers
Fears of a labour crunch and a deficit of skilled workers are growing in Japan as baby boomers start hitting the standard retirement age of 60 this year, in what Japanese media have dubbed the “2007 problem”. A decline in numbers of young workers is exacerbating the concern as the population ages at an unprecedented…
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A mobile, disposable work force
Indications of deteriorating working conditions are coming to light at workplaces across the nation as the result of a practice that has become a social issue: More and more manufacturing companies are bringing in contract workers (ukeoi) to have them work like temporary workers (haken) — as if dispatched from staffing agencies — but without…
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Hello Work violated temp staff law
Sixteen Hello Work job-placement offices under the jurisdiction of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry’s Osaka Labor Bureau have allowed employees from two organizations to engage in work performed by Hello Work offices, The Yomiuri Shimbun learned Tuesday. The employees of the Employment and Human Resources Development Organization of Japan (EHDO), an independent administrative institution…
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Ratio of dispatch workers to regular employees rises to 12.4%
The ratio of dispatched workers to regular corporate employees in Japan came to 12.4% last year, more than double the figure eight years ago, a government survey showed Monday. The data, compiled by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry, indicated corporate Japan is increasingly incorporating temporary workers to cut personnel costs following 1999 deregulation in…
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Firm punished over staff dispatch
The Osaka Labor Bureau slapped major subcontractor Collaborate Co. with a business suspension Tuesday for illegally sending its employees to clients as de facto temp staff. The Workers’ Dispatch Law prohibits the practice, which amounts to subcontractors acting as temporary staff agencies. It is the first time in Japan for a company to be told…
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Temp staff violations to lead to suspension
A major Osaka-based subcontractor is facing a business suspension order after it continued to dispatch temporary staff in violation of the Workers’ Dispatch Law, sources said. They said the suspension order, to be served as early as this week, will cover all 84 offices of Collaborate Co., and will likely see the manufacturing subcontractor’s business…