I’ve been advised when changing jobs, to keep the last day/first day continuously to minimize paperwork needed due to nenkin/health insurance related (whether it is covered by the employer or individual, in the case you are unemployed even due to a few days gap, for example).
I was wondering whether anyone has first hand advice/experience in this topic? My goal is to indeed put in some gap prior to my next employment.
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Personally, I prefer to keep the employment continuous, at least on paper.
I have taken my days off at the end of the employment. So for example, I’d work my last day on May 14, then have 2 weeks of vacation, and my last official day employed being May 31st, with my first day at the new company on June 1st. This allows you to have a break in between jobs, while not needing to do all the extra paperwork.
If it’s a longer gap you’re aiming for, the paperwork may not be a big deal, but for a couple of days/weeks I’d rather not want to bother.
The only problem is that you have to go to city hall and sign up and pay for health insurance and pension for the period in between. It’s not really a big deal.
There’s also residence tax, but city hall will send you those bills when they realize your company no longer pays for you, then you give those bills to the new company and they sort it out.
Echoing what other said, it’s better to have continuous employment. Health insurance is not calculated on daily basis, so yeah even 1 day equals to 1 month of NHI and national pension payment. So if you were already paying your shakai hoken for that month, you might suffer a loss.
It might be worth it if you quit at 31st, and has a gap between the next month (1-30), and start at new company the next month after. (If you have a working spouse, you can choose to be their dependent during the gap, and you will save a lot. My wife did this once).
I still would prefer a continuous employment even with lesser time off though. But in the end it’s your choice.
This is a non-issue at the end of the day. Some paperwork.