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How Japan has avoided the gaming industry’s persistent layoffs (www.theverge.com)
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[-] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

one of the key provisions of the country’s employment law, specifically on the “doctrine of abusive dismissal,” is that “employers can’t just shed employees.” They can only do so, says Matanle, “when the employer can prove that the organization would go bust.”

Should a Japanese company be found to break the law by, say, reducing its workforce to cynically juice the numbers of a quarterly report, dismissed employees are liable to be reinstated. “You can imagine the relationship problems,” says Matanle, “of staff who have won a court case against the organization for aggressive dismissal.”

Sure would like some of those employment rights here in America right about now.

[-] steeznson@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Obviously Japan has got their employment rights policies more correct than the US but there are some trade-offs to having policies like this. The main one would be that employers are less likely to "give a chance" to a candidate who has limited experience entering an industry if it is difficult to fire them when if it doesn't work out.

Economists have pointed to this being a factor in high youth unemployment rates in countries like France and Spain.

[-] drasglaf@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Indeed. Every job requires experience, but you have no chance of earning that experience unless you already have it, so no there's way of getting that job.

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