In a move that may affect the entire manufacturing industry, Hitachi Ltd. plans to introduce a new pay system based entirely on job performance and abolish seniority-based annual pay hikes.
Hitachi Vice President Takashi Kawamura said Monday the company aims to switch to the new merit-based system in October and have it fully reflected in salaries beginning in April 2004.
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