Yamato Transport Co.'s management and labor union have agreed to amend the company's parcel delivery time slots to improve work conditions for its drivers, sources have said. The leading door-to-door parcel delivery firm will in June scrap the noon to 2 p.m. slot to make ...
Toyota Motor Corp. and its labor union effectively agreed Sunday on a pay-scale hike of ¥1,300 per month in this year's shunto wage negotiations. The deal means the leading automaker, which is regarded as a pacesetter in shunto negotiations, will offer a base wage hike ...
Annual spring wage negotiations between companies and labor unions got into full swing Wednesday with unions from Japan's major automakers demanding the same base wage increase as last year despite concerns about the industry's earnings prospects. The unions of Toyota Motor Corp. and Fuji Heavy ...
Japanese companies should consider ways to raise employee pay on an annual basis in this year's shunto spring labor-management wage talks, Yasumi Kudo, vice chairman of the Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, said. "It's natural for companies with strong earnings to conduct wage hikes, mainly ...
Sadayuki Sakakibara, chairman of the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren), urged member companies Monday to increase pay on an annual basis, including bonuses and allowances, as part of this year's spring wage negotiations, known as shunto. Following the 2015 Christmas Day overwork-related suicide of a 24-year-old ...
The Keidanren business lobby plans to urge its member companies to raise incomes on an annual basis in this year's shunto (spring wage talks) between labor and management. This will be the fourth consecutive year that the nation's biggest business lobby has made such a ...
This year's shunto spring wage talks should focus on raising monthly pay rather than annual pay, Rikio Kozu, president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo), said in an interview Thursday. Keidanren called on member companies to raise annual pay, including bonuses and allowances. Kozu said ...
Many major firms notified their labor unions Wednesday that they will raise pay scales to conclude this year's spring wage negotiations, responding to strong calls from the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to help end long-standing deflation. Toyota Motor Corp., which has huge influence ...
Shunto is in full swing. Or so it should be. Or so they say. Shunto is the Japanese word for the annual spring round of wage negotiations conducted between big business and trade unions. This "spring offensive" used to feature large in the annual ...
Unions are adopting robust demands for this spring's annual "shunto" wage talks, with those of Toyota Motor Corp. considering an average ¥2.3 million annual bonus and the electronics industry its first basic pay hike in five years. For the talks, the 600,000-member Japanese Electrical, Electronic ...
Despite signs that Japan Inc. may be ready to accept the prime minister's call to raise wages next spring, it's questionable whether the hikes would offest higher prices and taxes.
For the first time since the 2008 failure of Lehman Brothers triggered the financial crisis, the wage situation for Japanese workers has brightened.
