Japan's jobless benefit conditions worst among industrial nations: ILO

Thursday 26th March, 06:43 AM JST

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some14some at 07:14 AM JST - 26th March

News only because Japan is presumed to be Industrial/advanced nation.
Disillusioned at 07:35 AM JST - 26th March

How to become the second largest economy in the world:

Don't pay any welfare benefits.

Don't spend any money maintaining schools.

Keep public hospitals understaffed and NO maintenance.

Expect all your workers to do 10-20 hours a week of unpaid overtime.

Misuse as much public money as possible.

Don't finish highways and charge a fortune to use the ones that are finished (poorly).

Rip the country off blindly for health care and pension benefits.

And, keep smiling!
Simon_Foston at 07:56 AM JST - 26th March

Oh, and don't forget:

Rig the election system in favour of gullible hillybillies so that no one who wants to change anything can get elected.
tkoind2 at 08:46 AM JST - 26th March

The longer I am here the more I realize that Japan is like a brand girl. Very polished and perfect looking from a distance, obviously made up and decorated up close, flawed and imperfect like everywhere else and more or less empty inside.

The country has a pointless government that rule and manage things with little or not consideration for the general population. A system that prevents change. A culture that prevents significant action by the public to do anything about it and that prevents the development of free thinking people who could and should lead the country.

Japan is a modernesque facade over a crumbling medieval interior. And if it does not do something drastic to change soon, it will continue to decline economically, politically and socially.

Japanese people are wonderful and capable. But need to wake up from their comfortable slumber and get on with change.
Tahoochi at 08:46 AM JST - 26th March

Japanese labor ministry officials said the Japanese share may decline under employment insurance law amendments that are expected to pass the legislature within this month to ease regulations on unemployed workers’ eligibility to receive unemployment benefits.

I'll believe it when I see it happen.
noborito at 09:12 AM JST - 26th March

How many Nova Teachers got benefits? None! Because Nova told it's workers that they were not eligible. What about your school. Or your company. Were you told the same? Unemployment insurance is a requirement for EVERYONE. Most full time ALT's would pay 2000 yen a month. If after a year you find yourself out, that would give you benefits after 7 days. For 90 days you would receive 70% of your pay, while you look for a new job. Why don't companies abide by the law, because they have to pay 1/2 the premium. Those outsource companies are out 2000 yen for every employee. So, if you work at: Gaba, Interac, or anywhere for that matter, make sure you are paying into the system. If not, head down to your local Hello Work office to inform them. They will help.

That said, after 90 days, you are on your own in Japan. Sad to say, but they only think short term. If you can't find a new job within this time, you might be up a creek.
soldave at 09:46 AM JST - 26th March

But Japan won the WBC, which Taro Aso said makes it a global leader. Things like this are obviously irrelevant when compared to a WBC win.
medievaltimes at 09:57 AM JST - 26th March

tkoind2 - Best post I've seen in a while.
whitepocky at 01:17 PM JST - 26th March

Japan may be a first world country economically speaking, but I must say that the social make-up of this country is of a third world ilk. Only 90 days of benefits if you lose your job, 30% to be paid by hospital users etc. My native country, the UK, may be going through a rough patch of late with many a social problem, but I must say the day I need assistance from the state, I will be on the first plane home!!
Nessie at 01:25 PM JST - 26th March

Japan may be a first world country economically speaking, but I must say that the social make-up of this country is of a third world

Could we please retire this third-worldweary cliche?
whitepocky at 01:33 PM JST - 26th March

Could we please retire this third-worldweary cliche?

If you can show evidence as to why, then yes.
Brunobear at 02:07 PM JST - 26th March

If they paid unemployment benefits, they may not have the money to send a whaling fleet to search the Southern Ocean every year and kill whales for scientific research. A nation must have its priorities. Just because the unemployed are Japanese citizens, where is it written that you have to feed them. Japan as a result has plenty of frozen whale meat, but these unemployed just won't eat it. Check to see how Japan ranks on the world obesity index, much lower than those advanced protestant Christian countries that fully feed their unemployed. Should the Government stop building roads to feed the unemployed hungry? No! Japan chose cars, remote bridges and roads over food production decades ago. Are you saying that policy is wrong! The unemployed should do the decent thing and go on a hunger strike until rickshaws become fashionable again. Then they will be lean and ready to put in the miles and get the yen to eat. I just hope they have the manners to keep their skinny bodies out of sight so the well fed employed don't have to see them. It would put them off their food. Isn't their adequate vacant spaces in cemeteries for these unemployed people? Look at what they do to the unemployment statistics as well. They make them look terrible. Who are these unemployed people. Do they look like us? I bet some of them are old too.
Nessie at 07:25 PM JST - 26th March

If you can show evidence as to why, then yes.

Because it's such a cliche.
DentShop at 01:28 AM JST - 27th March

How many Nova Teachers got benefits? None!

Umm, I did and so did 4 of my colleagues who were in the same boat at the time. We all received about 70% of our former set salaries and it was all tax free. The pay slips that Nova sent out each month had a very clear entry for the Unemployment Insurance. I never thought about or cared about this amount because I never thought I would ever need it. In the end I was extremely grateful for this payment and I am happy to be contributing to this insurance again now. Please do some genuine research before ranting.
Castella at 12:28 PM JST - 28th March

Unfortunately, the worker in Japan is only a mere commodity for the Japanese employer. Use them and throw them away when your finished.

Five out of 690 Nova teachers is nothing to brag about.