Usually, it is organized and covered by your company and the results are sent straight to the company, with all the results of all the exams you have passed. If you do it separately you have to send them the results anyways, the law says they have to keep your results for 5 years.
As far as I know, it started from a good intention. Because too many companies were abusing their workers, the government made companies responsible for the health of their employees. But that was creepily applied as having the company know everything about your health so they can push you do do more health exams, get treated and change your lifestyle.
I guess it’s part of the philosophy of putting the group before the individual.
While it seems most companies are respectful and will not check for anything not strictly necessary for the job, there are, as expected, horror stories of employees getting discriminated based on health results, for exemple missing a promotion because there’s some warning in the results. There are also people who do a “healthy month” before the checkup so the company will see better results than reality.
I did check if the GDPR could protect me, but no, it only applies when you reside in EU.
The exam itself at the clinic was very professional and efficient.
Interesting. When it happens in Europe, the occupational health center is not sharing anything with the employer besides “able or not to perform their duties”. The company department than manages this in Japan companies is not isolated at all?
the occupational health center is not sharing anything with the employer besides “able or not to perform their duties”.
Yeah, that’s the rational solution and what I was expecting. I learned when I changed company and they asked me my result, and I was shocked. In the previous one, the clinic shared without me knowing.
No, it’s not isolated, it’s normal HR. I asked if it was possible to strictly shared with the company physician, and they said no, they have to keep it themselves.
