Detailed attention to compliance with labour and employment laws is crucial for success in setting up business in a foreign country. This book -one of a series derived from Kluwer's matchless publication International Labour and Employment Compliance Handbook - focuses on the relevant laws and regulations in Japan. It is thoroughly practical in orientation. Employers and their counsel can be assured that it fulfills the need for accurate and detailed knowledge of laws in Japan on all aspects of employment, from recruiting to termination, working conditions, compensation and benefits to collective bargaining.
The volume proceeds in a logical sequence through such topics as the following:
- written and oral contracts
- interviewing and screening
- evaluations and warnings
- severance pay
- reductions in force
- temporary workers
- trade union rights
- wage and hour laws
- employee benefits
- workers' compensation
- safety and environmental regulations
- immigration law compliance
- restrictive covenants
- anti-discrimination laws
- employee privacy rights
- dispute resolution
- recordkeeping requirements
A wealth of practical features such as checklists of do's and don'ts, step-by-step compliance measures, applicable fines and penalties, and much more contribute to the book's day-to-day usefulness. Easy to understand for lawyers and non-lawyers alike, this book is sure to be welcomed by business executives and human resources professionals, as well as by corporate counsel and business lawyers.
Chapter 1. Legal Framework: Employment Laws
Chapter 2. Contracts of Employment
Chapter 3. Recruiting, Interviewing, Screening and Hiring Employees
Chapter 4. Managing Performance/Conduct
Chapter 5. Termination of Employees for Performance or Disciplinary Reasons
Chapter 6. Layoffs, Reductions in Force, and/or Redundancies as a Result of Job Eliminations or Other Restructuring
Chapter 7. Labour and Employment Law Rami.cations Upon Acquisition or Sale of a Business
Chapter 8. Use of Alternative Workforces: Independent Contractors, Contract Employees, and Temporary or Leased Workers
Chapter 9. Obligation to Bargain Collectively With Trade Unions: Employees' Right to Strike and a Company's Right to Continue Business
Operations
Chapter 10. Working Conditions: Hours of Work and Payment of Wages - by Statute Or Collective Agreements
Chapter 11. Other Working Conditions and Bene.ts: by Statute, Collective Agreements, Or Company Policy
Chapter 12. Workers' Compensation
Chapter 13. Company's Obligation to Provide Safe and Healthy Workplace
Chapter 14. Immigration, Secondment and Foreign Assignment
Chapter 15. Restrictive Covenants and Protection of Trade Secrets and Con.dential Information
Chapter 16. Protection of Whistleblowing Claims
Chapter 17. Prohibition of Discrimination in the Workplace
Chapter 18. Smoking In The Workplace
Chapter 19. Use of Drugs and Alcohol in the Workplace
Chapter 20. AIDS, HIV, SARS, Bloodborne Pathogens
Chapter 21. Dress and Grooming Requirements
Chapter 22. Privacy, Technology and Transfer of Personal Data
Chapter 23. Workplace Investigations for Complaints of Discrimination, Harassment, Fraud, Theft, and Whistleblowing
Chapter 24. Affirmative Action/Nondiscrimination Requirements
Chapter 25. Resolution of Labour, Discrimination and Employment Disputes: Litigation, Arbitration, Mediation and Conciliation
Chapter 26. Employer Recordkeeping, Data Protection, and Employee Access to Personnel Files and Records
Chapter 27. Required Notices and Postings
