For details of the grant system for promoting continuous employment of the elderly over 65 site
Requests for counseling and applications for grants should be submitted to the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities Services Department of the respective JEED prefectural offices. (Business Handling Department in Tokyo and Osaka prefectural offices.)
*Name changed in April 2023 from ‘Employment planners for employment of the elderly over 65’
Considering the falling birthrate and aging population as well as a future shrinking labor force in our country, it has become increasingly essential for the elderly to play an active role in supporting our society.
Given the circumstances, in order to ensure employment until the age 70 with the aim of realizing a society with lifelong employment, JEED develops practical methods pertaining to the expansion of job categories and the
reexamination of wages, personnel management systems,and training programs while fully grasping the challenges and needs of companies and clarifying the solutions and areas of improvement that can be taken by them to ensure
that the elderly become a substantial part of the workforce.
Practical methods developed by JEED are compiled into reports, and summaries are provided on the website to be used in work settings as a reference for corporate approaches to the employment of the elderly. More so,
they are used by Employment Planners and Advisors as explanatory materials when conducting counseling and support activities at companies. Furthermore, Employment Planners and Advisors utilize these materials to improve
their knowledge and consulting/supporting skills.The reports are also utilized on TV, in newspapers, and in magazines as news or in commentary articles.
JEED collects and provides information on employers’ good practices in order to disseminate and promote the concept of companies where people can work regardless of their age and to further propose improvement of systems related to the extension of continued employment and raising the retirement age with the aim of securing employment opportunities for the elderly until the age of 70.
JEED accumulates companies’ good initiatives that will help to improve the work environment for elderly workers and holds contests to recognize the best practices, with the awards ceremony at the Forum for Companies Providing Successful Employment to the Elderly being held every year in October, the designated Elderly Employment Support Month. In the Forum, companies have opportunities to introduce their initiatives. In addition, JEED makes efforts to promote understanding aimed at realizing a society with lifelong employment through local workshops, held for companies to present their improvement initiatives and creativity as well as exchange opinions, and symposia, held under the theme Career Development and Health Care, etc.
Also, JEED makes efforts to collect companies’ various initiatives, including raising the retirement age with an aim to secure employment opportunities for the elderly until the age of 70. The information on their good practices in elderly employment as well as measures to address an aging society are to be broadly disseminated to the general public and companies through the website that introduces the employment promotion of the elderly until 70 and the relevant outcomes, with the aim of building national momentum towards realizing a society with lifelong employment.