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Seven-Eleven steps up work-life support for foreign workers
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sakurasuki
That's the actual reason behind this.
ooly
Who would pen such an unnatural sentence? This article is, plain and simple, propaganda.
Truthmaster
"The programs will be led by Seven Global Linkage, an organization the company set up last year to realize a society where Japanese and foreign nationals live harmoniously."
A pipe dream. Soon AI and robots will make foreign workers unnecessary.
2 Year Old
Maybe some of them then won’t have to also work a second job at a ‘Massage’ place to help make ends meet.
They need to up the wage to ¥250,000 per month, for a 40 hour work week.
Who can really live even decent on 1000 yen per hour in Tokyo? Yet alone but a house?
sf2k
where foreign nationals will never become Japanese
garypen
People for whom English is not their first language?
Pukey2
And they lived happily ever after.
JeffLee
Pay them more followed up by periodic raises. Then watch your retention problem quickly and mysteriously disappear.
David Brent
Japan doesn’t have a labor shortage. What is does have is a lack of decent jobs paying a living wage. Raise wages and all these positions will be filled the next day.
GBR48
-to establish a database that will compile information on them.
No more accidental overstaying.
JeffLee
That's not true. A bigger and bigger share of national income of advanced countries is going to the rich and less to low-wage earners. One big reason is that labor unions have steadily lost their power, resulting in working class people losing their ability to negotiate their wages. All this, while corporates have been raking in the highest profits in human history.
dagon
The programs will be led by Seven Global Linkage, an organization the company set up last year to realize a society where Japanese and foreign nationals live harmoniously.
Sounds like copy from an ad agency tasked with showcasing the "diversity" of a corporation.
There is not a labor shortage, this fake narrative being pushed here and abroad, there is a jobs paying a living wage shortage.
And in case you need reminding, it was reported here and in other news outlets Seven-Eleven Japan Co had been shortchanging staff on wages for years and apologized for "errors", so they are guilty of gross wage theft too.
Kiwikid
I appreciate the company trying to help their people. But this is just putting a plaster on a gunshot wound.
Instead of helping them get through a broken system. Use your company to advocate change.
OzSamurai
I feel like many in the Japanese government have this idea that they want to increase immigration to counteract the ageing population but only want the very "best" immigrants that will magically come to Japan, invest a billion dollars and create 10 Softbanks while speaking fluent Japanese. The reality is Japan won't be able to attract these Silicon Valley types because they'll all be headed to the more traditional routes of well, Silicon Valley and other anglo-countries. The language barrier, wages, and work-life (im)balance are all massive inhibitors. So if Japan really does want to reserve its demographic decline then it'll have to have to make do with allowing lower skilled immigrants to come with their families in the hope that they'll assimilate with subsequent generations. If it means we have to bring in thousands of 7-11 workers every year then so be it - Japanese people aren't having more babies, it's time to move on from natural population growth. Even Son-San is a naturalised Japanese and look what he's achieved. Yanai (although Japanese) was a burakumin. Maybe it's time to create "The Japanese Dream" so we can stop sleepwalking in this economic nightmare?
kurisupisu
Change the immigration and labor laws and there wouldn’t be a need for ‘programs’ for foreign workers!
If only Japan could really change to allow cultural and social differences to become accepted-what a dream!
Having low skilled workers for a limited period of time to do the jobs Japanese do not want will not benefit anyone at all.
Who wants to be a ‘throwaway’ human being?
The underlying problems are not being addressed.