The number of foreign workers in Japan reached a new high, underscoring the country’s growing reliance on people from overseas to address its chronic labor shortage. Japan had a record 2.3 million ...

Getting sick or injured while doing your job qualifies you for workers’ compensation, which covers your treatment expenses, as well as a portion of lost income. However, because of the myriad of ...

Workers with full schedule flexibility report 29% higher productivity and 53% greater ability to focus than workers with no ability to shift their schedule, according to a just-announced report from ...

Starting this year, foreign workers are also eligible to receive income deductions for housing savings in their year-end tax ...

If it feels like you’re working longer hours for less money than your parents or grandparents did, it’s because you probably are. Adjusted for inflation, average hourly wages have actually fallen ...

*11:20JST フォーバル---「Well-Being Workers Awards 2025」にて健康経営推進部門優秀賞を受賞 フォーバル ＜8275＞ は19日、ラフール（本社：東京都中央区）が主催するイベント「Well-Being Workers Awards 2025」で、健康経営推進部門優秀賞を受賞したことを発表した。 ラフールが主催する「Well-Being Workers Awa ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Deborah D'Souza is the former news editor at Investopedia. She also writes articles that bring together information from across different financial fields. Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of ...

Almost all states in the US require businesses to take out workers’ compensation insurance and for good reason – accidents can happen at any workplace, even the ones with the necessary safety ...