[Column on Specified Skills System] Third: Registration support work and registration support organizations

“Registration support operations and registration support organizations”

▼ How to perform registration support work in-house

When hiring people with specific skills, it is necessary to establish a system to support them.
Although it is possible to request support services to a registration support organization, it is also possible to perform registration support services in-house.
To this end, it is important to determine whether the immigration authorities will approve your company's registration support services.
In principle,Only if the accepting company is capable of all registration support services and has a well-established acceptance system.,“Entrust everything to a registered support organization”Or"Partly outsourced"This is the option.

In order to be recognized by the Immigration Bureau as a registered support organization, the following conditions must be met.

1. ① “A company or corporation that has a track record of accepting working foreigners in the past two years”
2. ② "Corporate or individual who has experience in consulting with foreigners in the past two years"
3. ③ "The person in charge of support or the person in charge of support has been engaged in life consultation services for foreigners for more than two years in the past."

If you have not completed any of the above, you cannot register as a registration support organization.

In addition, whether you provide support in-house or outsource to a registered support organization,Support managerとSupport staffmust be provided.
inside that,The superior of a specified skilled worker is not approved as a support manager.That point must be kept in mind.
The support manager must be fair to both the company and the specified skilled foreigner.
This is because if the person in charge of support is a superior or company president, they will inevitably be biased toward the company, and their decisions will be seen as lacking in fairness.
In small and medium-sized companies, if the person in charge of support can only respond to his/her superior, he or she will be entrusted to a registered support organization.

In addition, language is also important. Most of the support workIt must be done in the foreigner's native language, a language that the foreigner can definitely understand.Therefore, if we cannot respond to this, we will not be able to provide support services.
This can also be handled by using an interpretation company.

With this in mind, you should consider whether or not you can handle the support work yourself.

▼ How to choose a registration support organization

Currently, the number of registrations of specific skills registration support organizations is increasing significantly, and the largest number of registrations are administrative scrivener offices like ours, supervising organizations, and paid employment placement companies.
On the other hand, many companies are taking advantage of the establishment of specific skills to enter businesses related to foreigners.
Even though they are registered as such registered support organizations, they may not actually know much about the support operations.

If you entrust support work to a registered support organization that does not have a firm grasp of support operations,Insufficient support for human resources with specific skillsThere is a risk of becoming
If the support services are insufficient, it is unlikely that you will be punished just by being pointed out by the immigration office once, but if you continue to use such agencies,Responsibility of accepting companyThere is a possibility that it will become.

Determining the registration support organization is very important for specific skilled workers to work and live in Japan.
To this end, it is important for the accepting company to understand the support operations to some extent, and then interview and judge whether the entrusted registration organization is capable of properly performing the necessary support operations.

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