The average wage earned by workers in May rose 0.6 percent from a year before to ¥268,389, up for the second consecutive month, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said in a preliminary report Tuesday.
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The welfare ministry is warning a national shortfall of around 377,000 care workers for the elderly is expected in fiscal 2025.
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A bill to revise the Worker Dispatch Law, over which the ruling and opposition parties confronted each other, passed the House of Representatives on Friday.
Opposition lawmakers walked out in protest as the Lower House on Friday passed a contentious bill to revise the worker dispatch law, ending a requirement that companies upgrade their temporary workers to fully fledged employees after a period of three years.
Those who hope to be promoted accounted for 25.7 percent of female regular employee respondents and 13.5 percent of female nonregular workers, the Cabinet Office survey showed.
Japan's total labor cash earnings increased at a slower-than initially expected rate in April after remaining unchanged in the previous month, a final report from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare showed Thursday.
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The government’s Regulatory Reform Council has called for discussions to begin this year among labor and management representatives and lawyers on a system that would provide financial settlements for unfairly dismissed workers.
Japan wants its workers to take more holidays and work fewer hours to cut down the number of people pushing themselves into an early grave.
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