A total of 40 education ministry bureaucrats landed post-retirement jobs at universities between January 2009 and last April, and half…
TOKYO —
A total of 40 education ministry bureaucrats landed post-retirement jobs at universities between January 2009 and last April, and half of them took up the positions a day after they left the ministry, government sources say.
As re-employment immediately after retirement from a civil servant post could violate the law, a team at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has started to investigate the matter, the sources said.
Under the national civil service law, government officials are banned from facilitating post-retirement jobs for other personnel and from job hunting seeking positions in the sectors they used to supervise while still working in government.
