Spread of COVID-19 casts shadow over Japan's shuntō wage talks
The widening outbreak of the new coronavirus originating in China has started to affect annual shuntō wage negotiations. Tougher wage talks are expected this year, with management increasingly cautious about agreeing to pay hikes amid growing concerns over corporate performance. The Japanese Trade Union Confederation, or ...
Japan firms slowly moving away from old ways on recruitment and pay
Japan's unique, long-held employment practices characterized by annual new graduate recruitment, lifetime jobs and seniority-based pay raises have helped support economic growth in the postwar period. But many major companies have begun to question whether to continue with the decades-old system at a time when ...
Japanese labor union federation to demand minimum hourly wage of ¥1,100
In talks slated to begin next month, Rengo will seek to narrow the wage disparity between regular and nonregular workers as well as between small and large firms.
Thirty years on, there remain many hurdles that Rengo must overcome.
Survey shows 11% of Japan firms have rules on the height of women's heels
In an apparently discriminatory practice, 11.1 percent of companies in Japan have in-house rules on the height of heeled shoes worn by female employees in the workplace, a survey by the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, or Rengo, has revealed. The survey results come at a ...
Japan union federation to demand minimum wage of ¥1,100, up from current average of ¥901
Japan's largest labor organization is set to seek a hike in the average hourly minimum wage at annual negotiations with employers next year in a bid to narrow wage gaps, sources close to the matter have said. The Japanese Trade Union Confederation, known as Rengo, ...
Japan's workforce can expect smaller raises this year as companies push back against Abe
Japan Inc. is pushing back after years of pressure to give bigger pay raises that has been a key part of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's campaign to restore stable economic growth. While wages have never reached the level sought by Abe, the results from annual ...
Abe wants foreigners to bolster Japan's shrinking workforce but finds vocal resistance
A strict immigration policy has helped make Japan one of the world's oldest and most homogeneous societies. Now, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's plan to invite as many as half a million foreign workers is testing the country's tolerance for change. Abe is preparing to introduce ...
Companies should share more of their earnings with employees as a strategic investment in manpower that supports their future business.
It's time for Japanese businesses to ask whether the collective form of annual wage negotiations serve their interests as they face increasingly tough global competition.
The Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) will request a pay scale increase for the fifth straight year during the 2018 shunto spring labor-management wage negotiations, according to sources. Rengo, the nation's largest labor federation, is expected to call for a pay scale hike of ...
Packaging firm Rengo focuses on innovations in cardboard to drive corporate efficiency
Cardboard box makers in Japan are coming up with innovative designs to ameliorate corporate labor shortages and to improve delivery efficiency. Market leader Rengo Co. is displaying such products at its showroom in Saitama Prefecture, including boxes that are easily opened and double as actual ...
