This year, the organizations representing the 400,000 part-time employees of Aeon, Japan’s largest distributor, demanded a 5% pay rise. The management granted 7. 544474657/yu_photo – stock.adobe.com
Like Aeon, large Japanese companies have been competing in generosity in recent months.
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More effective than the union in Japan? The boss! This year, the organizations representing the 400,000 part-time employees of Aeon, the leading distributor in the Archipelago, had demanded a 5% increase in remuneration. Surprise: the management granted some… 7. One helping hand among others which has been making the gloomy Time.news for thirty years of the Japanese employee, a poor relative of the middle class in industrialized countries. “Japan was in a deflationary environment where management saw no need to raise base paysums up the managing director of the Japanese subsidiary of a foreign industrial group.
This apathy was accepted by the employees, in a weak position (40% are in precarious contracts), atomized into company unions without mass bargaining power. Conclusion: according to the OECD, a Japanese employee today earns 25% less than his French counterpart and 50% less than his American counterpart. “Polish wages are catching up…
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