Failure to Pay Fees under Human-Resources Database Agreements
First written in FY2023-Q3. 1 of 3 entries say "Materialised", first in FY2023-Q3. Latest entry: FY2025.
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- FY2025DroppedAnnual reportThis individual case of omitted commission payments under a talent database agreement is not stated in this annual securities report.
- FY2023MitigatedAnnual report
「The Group began addressing this direct cause in January 2023, and as of the end of the consolidated fiscal year had established a system capable of appropriately recording cost of sales.」
The Group states that it began improving the inadequate process for identifying payees to talent database operators in January 2023 and had established a system capable of appropriately recording cost of sales as of the end of FY2023. - FY2023-Q3MaterialisedAnnual report
「Some job seekers were registered across multiple talent databases. When such a job seeker joined a company to which the Group had introduced them, the contract terms required commissions to be paid to all of the operating companies with which the job seeker had had contact. However, the Group incorrectly operated on the basis that, for a single completed transaction, it would pay only one operating company—the company contacted by the Group representative who supported the job seeker through to joining the company.」
The Group incorrectly identified the payee under its agreements with talent database operators and, for transactions requiring commission payments to multiple operators, had actually operated by paying only one operator.