Employers Misusing Medical Histories

[Mulboyne]

Mainichi: Employers denying jobs to applicants based on medical histories, gov't study finds
Some Japanese companies demand job applicants provide personal medical histories and deny employment based on their content, a Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) research group has discovered. The ministry has directed employers not to ask for medical information unrelated to the positions in question, citing a risk of employment discrimination, while the research group will distribute an awareness-raising booklet based on its findings...Two companies stated that they had rejected job candidates after checking their medical histories, while seven others and three local bodies said that there were internal rules forbidding employment for past medical conditions. Furthermore, there are confirmed instances of childhood cancer survivors being rejected for jobs with local bodies after being asked about their medical histories during job interviews...more...

[Coligny]

Mainichi: Employers denying jobs to applicants based on medical histories, gov't study finds
Some Japanese companies demand job applicants provide personal medical histories and deny employment based on their content, a Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) research group has discovered. The ministry has directed employers not to ask for medical information unrelated to the positions in question, citing a risk of employment discrimination, while the research group will distribute an awareness-raising booklet based on its findings...Two companies stated that they had rejected job candidates after checking their medical histories, while seven others and three local bodies said that there were internal rules forbidding employment for past medical conditions. Furthermore, there are confirmed instances of childhood cancer survivors being rejected for jobs with local bodies after being asked about their medical histories during job interviews...more...

Remember kids, if you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to hide...

humm... wait...

awwwww... shit... nevermind...

[Taro Toporific]

Remember kids, if you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to hide..

SHEEEEE-IT!
A significant point of my exile in Japan is that the Japanese National Health is supposed to make my "pre-existing condition" (paraplegia) irrelevant in the hiring process.

[Coligny]

SHEEEEE-IT!
A significant point of my exile in Japan is that the Japanese National Health is supposed to make my "pre-existing condition" (paraplegia) irrelevant in the hiring process.

I thought it wuz excessive baldness !?

[MrUltimateGaijin]

SHEEEEE-IT!
my "pre-existing condition" (paraplegia) irrelevant in the hiring process.

how would you know if that was the reason a company didn't hire you?

[Level3]

The moral of the story is to do exactly what US military recruits do.

Officially, almost any pre-existing condition (even if it is not debilitating) will probably disqualify you from enlisting, and they make you sign a contract stating you are being entirely truthful when you give your history.
But in a back room 10 minutes earlier the recruiter tells you to lie and not admit to such minor medical problems, because if everyone actually told the truth, nobody except a 1-in-a-million superman could enlist.

It's always harder to fire someone than it is to just deny a job. More paperwork. And going the extra mile to fire someone AND punish them for lying (and also figuring out how to prove it was intentional deception) is too much for 99% of civil servants, especially if most of them lied about their medical histories themselves.

DON'T lie (much) on your resume.
DO lie about your health.

Almost everybody has something wrong with them (and if you throw in psych evaluations, and someday DNA full-genome testing, that becomes 100%), it's just that some people haven't been diagnosed yet. Why should a "healthy" alcoholic with who'll need a liver transplant in 10 years, or a fit thin person with bipolar disorder who'll jump off a roof next Valentine's Day get preference over me if I have a peanut allergy or something?

But with the recent new J government health Nazi rule in which Japanese employers get punished with higher premiums if a certain percentage of their workers are "overweight" (defined as having a waist of over 34 inches for men, regardless of height, thus almost all tall gaijin are "overweight")
it would be pretty fucking hypocritical for the J government to suddenly be "concerned" about employers using health standards in hiring decisions.

Fuck you J govt health Nazi hypocrites.

[Coligny]

But with the recent new J government health Nazi rule in which Japanese employers get punished with higher premiums if a certain percentage of their workers are "overweight" (defined as having a waist of over 34 inches for men, regardless of height, thus almost all tall gaijin are "overweight")
it would be pretty fucking hypocritical for the J government to suddenly be "concerned" about employers using health standards in hiring decisions.

Fuck you J govt health Nazi hypocrites.

J-'scientists' seems to be backing down on all the BMI bullshit... admitting that it's as scientifically proved as the divine conception... But damn those fracking moron were annoying... Seems that every possible time they have an opportunity to lecture you they jump on the bandwagon like if the train was heading for free booty in Nanking...