Taxi firm fires entire workforce; says drivers better off collecting unemployment japantoday.com

By SoraNews24Tokyo-based car-hire firm Royal Limousine has seen its fortunes completely reversed in the span of a few months.
Seeing the writing on the wall, Royal Limousine decided to make a drastic preemptive move by firing everyone.
Their logic is that in doing so, all the employees could collect unemployment insurance and potentially get more money that they would during a lengthy period of paid leave.
As the coronavirus has spread, the daily take which was once around 70,000 yen gradually went down to 50,000 yen, then 30,000 yen.
“That’s smart.”“Isn’t this unemployment insurance fraud?”“They’ll all get that extra 300,000 yen for getting their income reduced too.