With Hong Kong and Singapore routinely topping the charts as the most expensive places to live and play, it may come as some surprise that Japan offers the best pay packets for expats in Asia. The average expatriate pay package provided by companies in Japan ...
Nissan's executive pay may have topped shareholders' ¥3 billion cap for fiscal 2017, sources say
Nissan Motor Co.’s executive remuneration for 2017 may have exceeded the nearly ¥3 billion cap set by shareholders, with a large sum going to arrested former Chairman Carlos Ghosn.
Gender inequality in the workplace could cost $160 trillion in lost earnings globally, a World Bank study showed Wednesday, as pressure to address the pay gap grows. That represents the difference between the combined lifetime income of everyone of working age in the world today ...
Japan Post must compensate nonregular workers on allowances but not pay: district court
In a victory for contract workers, the Tokyo district court rules that Japan Post must compensate those denied allowances given to full-time employees who performed the same work.
The disappointing results of the annual wage negotiations highlight the limitations of the Abe administration's drive to prod firms to raise wages.
The labor union of Mizuho Financial Group Inc. decided Wednesday not to request a pay-scale hike at this year's wage talks, given that the banking group has taken a battering from the central bank's negative interest policy, sources said. The union plans to gain members' ...
Wage growth outpaced inflation in April, first time in two years
Workers saw their wages increase faster than the cost of living in April for the first time in two years, as the impact of last year's sales-tax hike faded. Real pay rose 0.1 percent from a year earlier, the labor ministry said on Tuesday. Overall ...
Sierra Leone Ebola burial workers dump bodies in pay protest
Burial workers in Sierra Leone have dumped dead bodies in the street outside a hospital to protest authorities' failure to pay bonuses for handling Ebola victims, in the latest strike to hamper the fight against the worst known outbreak of the virus. A spokesman for ...
The Riken research institute has announced pay cuts for its top brass, in connection with an embarrassing international scandal over research on so-called STAP cells. Riken President Ryoji Noyori, a 2001 Nobel laureate in chemistry, will return 10 percent of his pay for three months, ...
Exec pay continues to reach new heights
While Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn was raking in around ¥1 billion last year, executives at other listed companies in Japan were also making more money than ever amid the economic recovery. Executive pay for fiscal 2013 announced as of Monday showed that Hajime Satomi, chairman ...
