Labour and Social Insurance Consultant in Kutchan / Niseko
Keep your HR running smoothly, even without in-house HR staff.
We back up your in-house HR and administration as an outside team of experts. From day-to-day labour management to streamlining work and building systems, we support an HR setup that fits your company.
We especially support many workplaces that need specialist care, such as employing foreign staff and seasonal employment.
Do any of these sound familiar?
✓ With no HR staff, owners and managers spend too much time on paperwork for new hires and leavers.
✓ HR staff come and go, and work stops every time someone leaves.
✓ Staff numbers jump in the winter season, and contracts and paperwork can't keep up.
✓ You hire working holiday makers and other foreign staff, and aren't sure about Japanese rules.
✓ You want proper employment contracts and work rules in English.
We take on the HR work that keeps you from running your business.
Why COUNT
01 Support that understands the challenges HR staff face
Employing foreign staff, and working in a resort area where staff numbers change greatly with the seasons, bring challenges that differ from general HR and labour management.
Our staff understand these realities, work alongside your HR team, and respond carefully to everyday questions and difficult decisions.
02 Experts in foreign and seasonal employment
We have handled the paperwork for many companies that hire working holiday staff and see big seasonal changes in headcount. We also prepare employment contracts and work rules in English.
03 Experience with labour disputes
As a labour consultation officer at a Labour Standards Inspection Office, our representative attended many mediation sessions. As a Specified Social Insurance and Labour Consultant, she can also represent you in mediation.
More than a paperwork service
We don't just file documents for you. As part of your HR team, we stay involved — from daily procedures to employment contracts, work rules and preparing for sudden changes in staff numbers.
We turn procedures and paperwork into clear systems, so that HR keeps running even without specialist staff or when people change. We also suggest tools and attendance or HR management systems that suit your company.
Our services
Labour and social insurance procedures
We handle time-consuming labour and social insurance procedures — enrolment and withdrawal when staff join or leave, benefit claims and more. From checking documents to electronic filing, we take care of everything, so your staff don't have to research each procedure themselves.
Annual labour insurance declaration and social insurance base report
We take on these complex yearly filings. We check payroll data and other information, prepare the calculations and documents, and file them on time — so your staff no longer have to struggle with them every year.
HR consultation
Ask us anything, from everyday questions like "How should we handle this?" to difficult cases such as disputes with employees, mental health issues, leave of absence, return to work and resignation.
As an outside expert you can consult at any time, we help you sort out the situation and decide on concrete steps as a company.
Work rules
Work rules set clear rules between the company and its employees, and are an important foundation for preventing disputes.
We carefully prepare rules that fit how your company actually works, taking into account your working styles and employment environment. We also prepare work rules in English.
Support for employing foreign staff
We support you from hiring to leaving, with attention to the procedures and labour management points specific to employing foreign staff.
From preparing employment contracts in English to joining and leaving procedures for working holiday staff, we help with the many issues that arise in foreign employment.
Government subsidies
As we support our advisory clients over the long term, we suggest subsidies and support schemes that suit their situation and initiatives.
Rather than hunting for subsidies to apply for, we make use of schemes that genuinely help your company, alongside your day-to-day HR management.
*Generally for advisory clients only.
Payroll
Overtime and holiday work, allowances, variable and flexible working-hour systems — payroll requires professional judgement based on labour law and your work rules.
Using an attendance management system, we calculate pay correctly according to your working patterns and rules. We also review calculation methods and respond to system changes, helping prevent risks such as unpaid overtime.
Efficiency consulting
While supporting your daily HR work, we identify tasks that burden your staff or are inefficient, and suggest improvements.
From systemising joining and leaving procedures and employment contracts to choosing, introducing and running the right systems and tools, we help make HR work simpler and easier to manage.
Mediation
Handled poorly, labour disputes put a heavy burden on both the company and its employees. Drawing on first-hand experience of mediation, our Specified Social Insurance and Labour Consultant clarifies the facts and helps both sides reach a solution through discussion.
When problems arise, we respond quickly and aim for an amicable resolution.
Our plans
Choose from three advisory plans to suit how your company works.
Advisory Plan
HR consultation only
For companies that handle procedures in-house and want expert advice when labour issues arise or a decision is difficult.
Standard Plan
HR consultation + procedures
In addition to HR consultation, we handle joining and leaving procedures, social and labour insurance filings and more, to lighten your HR workload.
Total Plan
HR consultation + procedures + payroll
From daily labour management to procedures and payroll, we support you continuously as your outside HR team.
We work online
Meetings are held online. Based in Kutchan / Niseko, we work with companies all over Japan to the same standard, with no travel time or scheduling hassle.
You can contact us at any time. If owners or managers are based overseas, we can work with you by email.
*If you would prefer to meet in person, please let us know.
Our commitment
A firm our clients are proud to have as their advisor.
We started as a local labour consulting office, and today we support companies of all kinds, both Japanese and international. Our goal is to be the best in client satisfaction. We keep our original spirit, keep improving our service, and grow together with our clients.
We work alongside your HR team, thinking and moving forward together — from small daily questions to building company rules.
About us
COUNT Labor Consulting opened in Niseko in 2016. Our representative, Emi Niimi, is a licensed HR and labour law consultant (Sharoushi). She previously did HR and office work at an international hotel in the Niseko area, and worked as an advisor at a government labour office (Labour Standards Inspection Office).
Office: Niseko-cho, Abuta-gun, Hokkaido ｜ Hours: weekdays 10:00–17:00 (JST)
Contact
Please contact us through the contact form or by email.
Office hours: weekdays 10:00–17:00 (JST) | Email: info@sr-count.com