The National Personnel Authority on Tuesday proposed cutting the salaries and annual bonuses of national civil servants for the second year in a row.
The personnel board proposed that the reductions focus on workers in their late 50s while keeping intact wages of young employees to forestall declines in their morale and in interest in public-sector jobs among new recruits.
In its recommendation to the Cabinet and the Diet, the board proposed an average cut of 1.5 percent, or ¥94,000, in the annual salaries of public servants for the year to next March 31, bringing them in line with the private sector.