The Japanese government plans to set up a new system of helping non-regular workers switch careers, reports The Japan News, citing press agency Jiji Press and a number of sources. The new system is aimed at making it easier for part-timers and dispatched workers in industry sectors hit hard by the Covid-19 crisis, including the hotel and restaurant industries, to make career transitions to sectors facing a shortage of labour, the sources said. The government will include the project in its economic stimulus package to be adopted on Friday. After fixing the details of the system, the government plans to earmark several tens of billions of yen in a fiscal 2021 supplementary budget to finance the system. The new system is expected to cover part-timers and dispatched workers who want to switch jobs as well as non-regular workers who have become unemployed. Staffing firms will organise short-term training courses for temporary personnel, including on computer skills, and dispatch them to companies as non-regular workers on a trial basis to encourage employment. The government will also shoulder fees for the training and provide financial incentives to companies that accept non-regular workers under the system. Economic and fiscal policy minister Daishiro Yamagiwa said on Tuesday that the government plans to spend several hundred billion yen over several years to implement the job transfer support project.