The public approval rating for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet has dropped 2.7 points to 48.1 percent, with nearly 70 percent of respondents seeing no need for passage of a labor reform draft bill in the current Diet session amid a scandal over flawed data, a Kyodo News poll showed Sunday.
The support rate in the nationwide survey, conducted Saturday and Sunday, compares to 50.8 percent in the previous survey taken in February.
The disapproval rate stood at 39.0 percent, up from 36.9 percent in the previous poll.