I interviewed with this company and was hired. I asked if I could apply as a seishain after a few years and they said that the position is seishain but with yearly contracts. I was under the impression that a seishain is a permanent employee with indefinite term of employment. I asked how this is possible and she said she couldn’t explain it well but assured me it is a seishain position. I have been reading other posts and some articles but it’s still not clear to me. My current job is a contractor but I do get all the pension, health insurance deductions and twice a year bonuses so I am not completely sure what this all means. Thanks to anyone who can clarify.
Edit: I see. Thanks for the clarification everyone. I understand it better now.
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If the contract has an expiration date, then it’s keiyakushain, not seishain.
Do you have a copy of your job contract or offer letter in Japanese? It should say it on there.
Seishyain by definition has no period of employment.
Maybe a dispatch or outsourcing company?
My company used to have a certain segment of seishain sign a contract every year which stipulated their mission for that fiscal year. It could be something like that. (I haven’t done it since I moved departments 9 years ago).
Or not, it depends on the company.
If you are on a yearly contract, you are a keiyakushain.
If you’re not sure, try getting a home loan from a bank. I bet you wouldn’t be able to currently.
That is kind of true but. If your salary increases a bit every year you need to sign a new contract. (Usually) but you shouldn’t be worried about a non renewed contract.
Some companies have seishain that are on ‘automatically’ renewing contracts. If you have to sign yearly, that’s not seishain.
Seishain basically means permanent employee.
I signed a contract just once and that was Seishain role.
Havent signed any documents after that.
Renewed my visa twice ( three years and 5 years recently), I just had to ask some documents to HR department, and they provided it for visa extension application.
Like other said, your position sounds like keiyakushain .
By the way congratulations on your new job
Is it possible that they also do dispatching business?
It sounds similar to my experience. I was interviewed by this company and they said I will be seishain, which I am. But what they didn’t say is that I will be a dispatched employee somewhere else so I don’t actually work for the company that hired me. I was taken aback at first because being a dispatched employee in another company, you will be treated differently than seishain of that company despite that’s where you mainly work at.