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Japanese firms brainstorming ways to keep staff with cancer active, productive under new law

People swap business cards while wearing both work and latex gloves in Tokyo in October at an event organized with the aim of improving understanding of the problems faced by cancer patients, including finding their limbs have become numb from cancer drugs. | LIFENET INSURANCE CO. / VIA KYODO

Kyodo

Jan 11, 2018

Corporate Japan is striving to make it possible for employees with cancer to continue working as usual while undergoing treatment.

The effort has gathered steam following the revision in December 2016 of a law designed to help fight cancer. The legislation requires companies to do all they can to keep employees on the payroll if diagnosed with cancer.

With advanced therapies leading to an increase in survival rates, many companies are looking into how to keep workers involved and productive to help both their bottom line and their employees.

Japanese firms brainstorming ways to keep staff with cancer active, productive under new law

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