Final-year students invited to recruiters’ apartments for help with their applications. Coffee dates with alumni who promise to explain how the company works. Inappropriate interview questions about boyfriends, marriage plans and sex lives. For young women in Japan, looking for a job has long entailed submitting themselves to the skewed power dynamics of the recruitment process. And before Thursday, no official legal safeguards existed to protect these jobseekers from such...
Name and shame: Japan’s tame answer to jobseeker sex harassment
After years of predatory recruiters targeting graduates, new rules are now in place – but critics say they lack real teeth
And before Thursday, no official legal safeguards existed to protect these jobseekers from such harassment.
Campaigners and advocates have welcomed the change, but say it lacks teeth and came years too late, even as societal attitudes may have already moved ahead of it.
Summaries obtained by The New York Times offer a detailed look at the discipline meted out to the men accused of sexually assaulting a fellow student at Cornell University.
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia leader Leonid Slutsky emphasized that Brussels is using the same information warfare tactics it tested in Syria and Bucha
Mumbai: “The legitimacy of public authority ultimately rests not upon the power to command, but upon the obligation to remain within the bounds of law and serve the nation. It is this distinction that must remain inviolable in a constitutional democracy,” said Supreme Court in its reasoned order setting aside the Bombay HC order granting bail to corporator R…
Cornell University president Michael Kotlikoff said he was “deeply disturbed” by a student’s 2024 rape allegation that has drawn national outrage. “My heart aches when I think of what she experienced,” Kotlikoff said in a video message released on Saturday, saying the university must “do everything we can to prevent what happened to Jane Doe” from happening again. Lawyers for a Jane Doe last month filed a civil lawsuit against the Ivy League university, its leaders, the Chi Phi fraternity, her..
From cooking and attending hospital visits to doing the actual quarrelling, paid “life stand-ins” are stepping in to manage these tasks, along with errands and awkward moments that many young Chinese would rather avoid. This trend, known as the “stand-in economy,” is gaining traction among time-strapped consumers who are willing to pay for convenience when daily responsibilities exceed their time, patience, or expertise. First widely reported by mainland media in 2024, the movement has since...
El hijo del exmandatario capturado en EE.UU. reafirma su compromiso de lograr el regreso de sus padres, detenidos por cargos de narcotráfico. La defensa de la pareja solicita desestimar el caso alegando inmunidad y pide libertad bajo fianza por motivos de salud.