Recently, a business has become big news in Japan, announced the news to give employees a raise. The convenience store chain Lawson announced that the new year from April 2013 onwards, the age of the average annual income of the 20-year-old to 40-year-old official trade union will increase about 3%, and improve part will be reflected in the bonus for the month of May and November. This measure will allegedly the employees annual income increased ¥ 150,000.
Not long ago, Guangdong Province announced that starting in May this year, a nearly 20% increase in the minimum wage, compared with a 3% gain on the Chinese, then I think it would be difficult in the news, and even some readers may suspect you less write a zero. Rosen pay up the reason why the big newspaper special newspaper, because in Japan so generous enterprise is too small.
Look at the statistics from the Japanese Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the total wages of employed persons in Japan after 1998 all the way down. In the past, every year in reference to the inflation rate adjustment of the basic wage, but in the last decade, Japan has been in a state of deflation and inflation-linked salary adjustment mechanism is no longer applicable, and a result, many companies stop raising the basic wage level. More importantly, the sharp decline in the profitability of Japanese companies, in order to cope with competition from emerging countries, only to drive down labor costs to survive.
During the "lost 20 years", the Japanese have also appeared in several economic situation, but even money, the enterprises to enhance the basic wage is also very cautious, with wages declining in total contrast to the retained earnings rising. At the most multi-point bonus so the performance is good, to maximize basic wage. Because the various social welfare insurance cost will be a corresponding increase in the basic wage increase.
More importantly, if poor management, bonuses less fat or not employees can accept, but if you want to cut the basic wage that is not an easy thing. I have a friend in a small company when the boss, because the performance of the company the landslide forced to make a decision cut basic wages. When one by one to notice, usually you reverent staff, or fly into a rage threat that I was going to find a lawyer to sue you in violation of the labor law, either burst into tears telling less than the mortgage, in short, no one is a fuel-efficient lights. Friends sigh to the next life will never be the boss.
In fact, far more than a friend, headache, and one in the spring, can be said of all the boss of Japan headache, because Japan is now in the Shunto season. Shunto the spring struggles acronym capitalists rose wages and improve working conditions, both sides began negotiations to negotiate a new annual basic salary or annual bonus.
Shunto scale but in recent years, more and more small, demanding a wage voice getting lower and lower. Trade unions such as the automotive, appliance and other industries each year are Baotuan negotiations with employers this year, Sharp's union announced its withdrawal from the unity of the appliance manufacturing industry "Shunto is said to be the first time ever. Sharp in distress is a symbol of Japan's employment environment changes.
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi took office in 2001 after deregulation, companies can more easily commissioned a large number of temporary staffing agency recruiting contract workers. Most of the Japanese companies focus on hiring full-time staff, misdemeanors unless the company closed down or I, once hired the company must be raised to the regular employees retired. Recently, some enterprises in order to achieve the purpose of layoffs, deliberately let some employees sitting on the bench, some people can not stand the mental torture to resign.
In contrast, contract workers to respond to the call that the marching orders to go, do not have to bear the burden of social insurance and other enterprises can timely adjust staffing based on short season. Result, more and more contract workers, of course, also pulled down wages Quotes. So, the unions know that if capitalists hurry, either go to contract workers, or entire factories migrate to lower labor costs in Asia. The latest statistics show that the first fifty years of the Japanese manufacturing employment fell below the 10 million mark rose sharply, while the number of employees hired overseas.
However, over the years, not a raise with Japan plunged into a vicious cycle of deflation caused to become one of the main reasons for the "lost 20 years" but it is an indisputable fact. After the collapse of the bubble emerge, grow the enterprise have a common characteristic is to provide cheap goods and services.
Get a haircut before spend two or three thousand yen, even wash with scraping plus to pinch shoulder, service TKK now 1,000 yen, 10 minutes to get, but only cut does not wash. Go to the furniture store "like a bird", the single life, the most basic furniture ¥ 10,000 full-carry back, of course, need your own back slowly assembled. The Uniqlo, a dozen years ago, when wearing for fear that others recognize, a lot of people behind the trademark of the collar torn off, now become a "national service, family men and women, inside and out are" Uniqlo library a lot of people. To overseas travel, eat and drink to live less picky encountered off-season, 5,6 million yen on the United States for a trip is not a problem.
Initially, the Japanese people feel cheap price days quite moist, especially pensioners, the elderly are more crowed, because the pension is raised and not only in line with inflation over deflation, deflation equal pension worth more. Similarly, ordinary people mostly prefer the appreciation of the yen, critics claimed survived thanks to the appreciation of the yen rely on cheap imported goods in Japan talent deflation. As everyone knows, the cheaper the price the enterprises involved in endless price war, many companies can only do puerile, of course, belongs to expect to ask for a raise. The lower prices also followed wages continue to fall, so a vicious cycle to see less than the light of day, and resulted in economic stagnation.
During this period, a large number of department stores were forced to go out of business, golf courses, ski resorts and other entertainment for Petty pastime continue to disappear. Tokyo may be the best in the world to call a taxi in the city, running the streets empty. It is no exaggeration to say that deflation biggest drawbacks is almost collapse of the middle class in Japan, which is the Japanese society to maintain long-term stability of the foundation. Shake the foundation, various issues also will be out of the past three years, the LDP lost power on behalf of the middle class is also a matter of course.
LDP to regain power in the bitter experience of the Prime Minister Abe at the expense of the independence of the central bank is determined to let the prices in Japan rose 2 percent, to rid itself of deflation. But many nationals began to doubt the only rise in prices does not pay up, equal to 2% decline in real wage amount, it might as deflation.
In response, Prime Minister Abe invitation Keidanren, economic Doyukai will master the giants of Japan's economic lifeline to the prime minister's residence to drink coffee, to request that they consider to give employees a pay raise, and where a salary increase enterprise can enjoy tax reduction incentives. According to media reports, completely standing capitalists stand LDP initiative (to ask for a raise) it is rare for the working class pay talks. However, the less optimistic outlook remains cautious, to improve the basic wage level can only promise the results will consider bonus prevarication about good corporate giants.
Read here, readers and friends may understand mentioned at the beginning Rosen salary increases will become big news why? Rosen boss Sina just Mr. Shi early 50s belonging to a new generation of entrepreneurs, smart, the Abe Cabinet to hire one of the members of the organization is to improve industrial competitiveness. Rosen salary increase to Mr. Sina lead by example and to promote other enterprises, but even if Rosen did not mention whether the adjustment of the basic wage, because many Japanese companies have to give up a big pot-wage system.
Bold financial easing, massive fiscal spending to revive Japan's competitive development strategy, Prime Minister Abe took office after three fire ignited the Japanese stock market, but in the final analysis, depends on everyone's income not rise up. If you do not rise, the Abe Cabinet the good times do not grow.
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