The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare publishes leaflets to provide law amendment information and explain about labor management or social insurance systems with the aim of promoting understanding of employers and workers. In recent years, the Ministry has also been providing useful tips in videos. This article picks video contents in three areas.
[1] Childcare leave benefits
Recently, the Ministry has added the “parental/childcare leave support benefit” and the “benefit for reduced working hour for childcare” to the benefit program of the Employee Insurance system to support workers with children. Since the requirements or procedures to apply for the benefits are complicated, it is helpful for employers and workers to have accurate understanding about the system.
The Labour Ministry’s video provides an outline about the system. Its digital pamphlet also shows how to use the system to support workers.
[2] Workplace harassment
The Labour Ministry offers various information in the website dedicated to prevent harassment at work. It contains training videos for employers and personnel in charge of consultation about measures to prevent workplace harassment, harassment by customers or harassment relating to recruitment activities.
With the Ministry due to require companies to implement measures against customer harassment in the future, the website takes up the supermarket industry as an example and shows a video about the prevention of customer harassment.
[3] Mental health
The Ministry has also launched a special website to support workers’ mental health. The short videos in the website feature various themes relating to workers’ psychological well-being, such as self-care, care by family members or colleagues, measures to promote mental health at work and stress check.
Even if companies hand out leaflets to workers, they do not necessarily read them or fully understand the information. Please make use of the Ministry’s website to help their understanding about various issues. The videos are available from the links below.
[Reference]
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, “Childcare leave benefits”
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/seisakunitsuite/bunya/0000135090_00001.html
“Promotion of pleasant workplace atmosphere –training videos for the prevention of harassment”
https://www.no-harassment.mhlw.go.jp/events
“Listen to your mind – 5-minute training videos”
https://kokoro.mhlw.go.jp/fivemin/
*The information is based on laws and regulations as of the date of the original article.
