[Grandpa Saw It!] Part 2: I Took a Look at Hello Work ~On the Status of Cooperation Between the National Government and Local Public Entities Regarding Employment~
I am Grandpa, a supporter of Generation Z and the future generation!
Well, this time I am looking into various things about local versions of Hello Work.
This is the second part. Part 1 will help you follow the story if you read it first.
4️⃣ The Emergence of Local Hello Work
Following a legislative measure with the long-winded name of the Act on the Arrangement of Related Laws for Promoting Reform to Enhance Regional Autonomy and Independence (6th Decentralization Omnibus Act) (Act No. 47 of 2016: Hello Work Decentralization Section), local versions of Hello Work emerged.
I currently go to Hello Work Chiba every month (or more precisely, every 4 weeks, at 28-day intervals) to receive certification for my unemployment benefits.
To receive unemployment benefits, you need to have two activities by the certification date.
Once, when I go to Hello Work Chiba on the certification date, I have a career consultation before leaving, but for the other time, I go for a career consultation at the nearby "Furusato Hello Work Inage".
I had no idea that there was a difference between the local version of Hello Work and the national Hello Work at those two locations.
To go through the procedures to receive unemployment benefits, you must visit one of the 15 Hello Work offices in Chiba Prefecture mentioned above. This is the national Hello Work that certifies the payment of unemployment benefits (implemented by local governments).
Hello Work Plaza is a Hello Work-related facility established as a branch office of Hello Work. They are located in convenient places such as in front of train stations in urban areas or in commercial facilities, making them easy for working people and busy individuals to use.
Hello Work Plaza is established as a branch office of Hello Work in convenient locations such as in front of train stations.
Mothers Hello Work is a Hello Work office for women who are looking for jobs while raising children. In some cases, they are independent facilities located in shopping malls, and in other cases, they are attached to Hello Work offices as a Mothers Corner.
The name and the number of locations speak to how heavy the burden is on mothers when it comes to raising children. Children won't be born in a society where the burden is so heavily placed only on women.
New Graduate Support Hello Work is for those who are planning to graduate from high school or university soon, or those who have just graduated and are not yet employed. Those who are looking for their first job often do not know how to look for job openings or companies, or how to handle interviews. It is a very convenient facility for such new graduates.
This is an administrative service that I would definitely recommend new graduates who want to find employment locally to visit at least once.Since it's free, you'd be losing out if you didn't use it.
Furusato Hello Work, also known as a Regional Career Counseling Office, is a facility that provides job and employment information in areas where there is no Hello Work office or where one is far away.
In order to establish a local version of Hello Work, known as Furusato Hello Work,budgetary measures by the local government are required. The establishment rate increases in prefectures where local governments are desperate to secure employment.
In the case of Chiba Prefecture,the establishment rate of local versions of Hello Work is 27th in the country.
5️⃣ Employment Countermeasure Agreements between the National and Local Governments
I introduced that the regional version of Hello Work appeared with the legal amendment in fiscal year 2016, but regarding the relationship between the national and local governments,the amendment of the Employment Measures Actforced local governments to choosewhether or not to conclude an employment countermeasure agreement with the national government.
If the employment countermeasure agreement was due to the amendment of the Employment Measures Act,the establishment of the local version of Hello Work was due to the amendment of the Employment Security Act.
As an example ofprojects implemented jointly by the national and local governmentsbased on the agreement,the case of Kumamoto Prefecture👇 is easy to understand.
6️⃣ Go for it, Local Hello Work
The local version of Hello Workis significantly different from private services like BizReach or Recruit becausethe private sector prioritizes economic rationality, so inevitablyregions that are not profitable get left behind, whereasthe local version of Hello Work, which can provide free job placement in local areasis an ally of the regions.
In 2016, the following legal amendment was made, and the local version of Hello Work, which was deregulated from the national government to local governments, was established.
✓ Can conduct free employment placement services as a public entity, with a position different from private employment placement agencies.
① Abolition of notification when starting a free employment placement business (notification only)
② Review of other various regulations (Abolition of advice, guidance, recommendations, collection of reports, and on-site inspections by the national government, abolition of business suspension orders, etc.)
✓ Online provision of job opening and job seeker information from national Hello Work offices if requested by local public entities conducting free employment placement (legalized)
• Online provision of job opening information (started in September 2014)
• Online provision of job seeker information (started in March 2016)
The national government would just say "you do it" to the local governments, and the local governments would do the same. It feels like that kind of administration has finally started to be able to coordinate a bit.
Why?
I think a big reason is the evolution of IT and DX for sharing data.
The standardization of systems that enables the kind of cooperation shown in the figure above is important.
If things are fragmented by region, cooperation is impossible, and each region will need its own system development budget.
If possible, regarding information linkage between local versions of Hello Work, if we can make employment placement involving relocation smoother, it will broaden the options for employees who are left stranded by factory closures, and since we can do web interviews now, it will be possible to consider options with less burden.
Honestly, current politics needs politicians with high IT literacy. To achieve that, politicians need to be young.
I really learned a lot this time.
Good luck, Gen Z!
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