| From The Newspaper (40) Job 2 |
July 7th, 2023
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| About GBER, he learned that besides Fukui Prefecture, Setagaya Ward in Tokyo, Kashiwa City in Chiba Prefecture, Kumamoto Prefecture, and Kamakura City in Kanagawa Prefecture also introduced GBER. He checked each website of these four municipalities, but he couldn't get any concrete information : how many people registered, what type of jobs from companies and households were offered. So, he continued to check on the internet whether there were some informational research by researchers about GBER, but he couldn't find any. When he was searching, he found that GBER was being used by a human resource association for elderly people, called Silver Human Resources Center, in a city in Kyushu. In this case, "silver" means "elderly people". There is a nationwide system of this Silver Human Resources Center in this country. As the information from the National Human Resources Center Association, there are 1,303 Silver Centers, the rate with all municipalities is 83% (4 out of 5 municipalities have this center.). 60 year olds and older can apply for the center in their residential municipality, companies and households in the municipality can offer jobs that suit elderly people: temporary, not too hard and not dangerous. He had known about this system because his city has this. If he was correct,  weeding, snow shoveling were popular, janitors of company buildings, carpenters (for only simple work), drivers for kindergartens, childcare in nursing schools were also popular. So, when he came to know about GBER, he wondered how they differentiate from this Silver system. GBER started in 2016. Now 7 years has passed, but only several municipalities introduced it. It might be some conflicts of interest between GBER and the Silver system. "But...", he came up with the idea and searched. The participation rate for Silver Human Resources Centers was just about 2%. Some websites pointed out some reasons ~ mismatch of jobs (seekers tend to want office jobs, but there are few office jobs) and aging of the members. He could guess that there is no retirement age. He also thought that older members wouldn't work as much as or as fast as the younger members, although everyone would be over 60, and, in this case, the quality of each job will vary. With that, he thought about how does GBER guarantee the quality of the job? Maybe municipalities don't have manpower for this. So, in Fukui Prefecture's case, they use GBER in part of their welfare service which they had had, in Kyushu's case, a Silver Human Resources Center used it. If one can't guarantee the quality of a job, nobody will ask someone to do a job. After all, an entity who wants to use GBER would have to train the workers and assign the workers suitably. If they can't work in the same way, they will have to evaluate each worker's job, and pay money depending on their working contributions. This seems not to be so simple. He recently heard from his friend that in his town an elderly woman was working three jobs by three different companies. She worked one day each for a food company, a hotel, and a nursing school. This might be reasonable because the three different companies know about her well, so it's easier for them to ask her to work in an emergency, or rest for a time because of their business reasons. But in cities, it's difficult. So, city people and companies register with the Employment Bureau in each municipality, whether it is for regular or temporary jobs. Each company will decide by resumes and job interviews. Another way in which people find work is Temporary Staff Agencies, companies that have with licenses to dispatch workers. But in this method, where are GBER's and Silver Human Resources Center's original purpose? (To be continued) |
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No. 527
*temporary :一時的な
*janitor :管理人
*differentiate :差別化する
*entity :主体
*dispatch :派遣する