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2 unusual facts about Permanent employment


Permanent employment

Large-scale layoffs remain legally restricted and socially taboo in Japan; many large companies such as Sony, Panasonic, NEC and Toshiba deal with excess labor capacity by offering voluntary retirement programs and by sending unnecessary workers to "chasing-out rooms" where they are held with minimal work responsibilities until they decide to resign.

Queen of the Office

:Jang Gyu-jik works in the upper management of Y-Jang Food Company (his name is a pun on jung gyu-jik, the Korean phrase for permanent employee).



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Rodney Blackstock

He took various jobs ranging from a solar panel salesman to a window cleaner and eventually found permanent employment at Home Farm, working for the King brothers, Matthew King, Jimmy King and Carl King.

Rosemarie Lindt

By 1963, Lindt and her boyfriend Jacques Herlin moved from Paris to Rome for Herlin's permanent employment at Cinecittà and Lindt soon found minor roles in cinema, starting with La ballata dei mariti (1963) and later Hercules the Invincible (1964).