Retainer Contract

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Advisory Retainer Contract

We provide professional HR and labor advisory services through retainer contract.

-Features of Our Services

Advisory retainer contract is our main services as well as the most popular contract type.Labor adivisory is the key service of this contract type. Also, we deal with document filings of labor and social insurance with authorities on a spot basis upon request.

【Typical Advisory】
1. Update the work rules and salary rules, etc. according to the legal updates or policy change.
2. Review/advise on the client’s material for senior management to to better explain the labor risks or the market practice.
3. Review if there is any risk to administer the fixed overtime allowance.
4. Make legal review of the employment agreement template.
5. Advise the considering points when introducing an employee referral program.
6. Advise if there is a legal risk with the ‘same wage for same job’ policy.
7. Support explaining to the management team the change of legal update.
8. Support preparing side-job policies.
9. Advise how to deal with an absent employee due to mental health issue.
10. Advise how to deal with when manager takes childcare leave.

There are many cases where an appropriate judgement is difficult if we take into account the legal updates only. We provide custom-made advisory identifying the root issues and organization culture of each client.

Administrative Support Retainer Contract

We provide outsourcing service of labor document filings.

We contribute to improve the efficiency of labor document filings.

Consuming your time with administrative work decreases the efficiency and may come up with the lack of time for management work. Outsourcing such clerical work improves your company’s management efficiency. We support your company as a labor consultant certified by Japanese government.

We contribute as a discussion partner for any HR challenges.

It is our strength that we can support not only labor document filings but also providing professional advisory for any HR challenges foreign companies tend to face. We provide advisory from both legal compliance and an appropriate people management perspective taking into account both global and local policies.

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We deliver monthly newsletter where an up-to-date information on legal revisions and a market practice, etc. Reading this will help you understand the local market circumstances on a timely manner. (Monthly newsletter is issued in Japanese only as of Mar. 2024)

HR Consulting Retainer Contract

We provide professional advisory for C&B programs’ operation

We provide advisory services after introducing/updating HRM systems.

This is the contract type for the clients where we support designing/implementing the new HRM systems. We provide professional support so that the expected effect will be achieved on a continued basis on an administrative phase after new HRM implementation.

【Typical Inquires】
・We want to revise the merit increase rules including no increase or decrease options.
・We want advisory on promotion and demotion.
・We want to understand the impact on overtime pay calculation when introducing new allowance.
・ We want you to help us to integrate performance evaluation criteria.
・We want to improve the deviation of actual rating of performance evaluation.
・We want to revisit the number of job grades.

This contract type applies for the companies who retained us for HRM designing in general. For other companies, we will propose how we could support upon hearing your needs and expectation.

Overview of Retainer Contract

Key Services by Contract Type

Labor Advisory Retainer Cotnract Admin Support Retainer Contract HR Consulting Retainer Contract
  • Basically providing HR and labor advisory support
  • Clients proceed with labor document filings by themselves.
  • Possible to support document filings on a spot basis
  • File with the authorities the labor documents on behalf of the clients
  • Possible to provide advisory services also.
  • This contract type is exclusively for clients we support HRM systems designing.
  • For other companies, propose what we can do upon hearing the circumstances.
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Recommend when the companies want to retain HR advisor or consultant Recommend when the companies want to improve labor documents efficiency as well as to retain HR advisor or consultant Recommend when the companies want to maximize the effect of HRM programs’ revision