A man who had his 6.5 million yen annual salary stolen by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government says that it was a power harassment interview where no matter what he said he would deny it. In modern Japan, income disparities are rapidly widening due to the expansion of non-regular employment. What we have here is a “poverty-enforced society” from which it is difficult to escape once one falls into the poverty trap. Tomoaki (pseudonym, in his 50s) had his employment as a school counselor (SC), a non-regular public servant in the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, terminated in March of this year. I have been working there for about 10 years. He was in charge of a total of three schools and his annual income was approximately 6.5 million yen. That was a huge loss of income all at once. From April onwards, the situation has changed and rent payments are also required. For details, see source 2024/12/12.
>>1 The non-regular government employees who work at government offices are just part-timers. Even if you work at a school, you’re extremely lucky if you earn that much.
The widespread use of temporary, non-regular employment contracts is also a distant cause of this country’s decline, and the government-created working poor should be the ones taking the lead in improving the situation, but they’re not doing anything about it.
6.5 million yen as a non-regular worker is a blessing. While you’re still blessed with it, you need to remember that you’re a non-regular worker and start preparing for the next step. Even as a regular worker, it’s hard to find a job that pays 6.5 million yen.
I think he’s not a part-time employee but a contract employee. He’s much better off than someone who makes 1000 yen an hour, but I guess it’s still a shock to him. I wonder if he’s done graduate school or something.
> Tokyo’s SCs were originally part-time special positions, but following amendments to the Local Public Service Act, from fiscal 2020 they have been transitioned to fiscal year appointed employees with terms of up to one year. The Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education has set a limit of four times for the number of times that fiscal year contracts can be renewed for employees. >The workplaces are public elementary, junior high and high schools in Tokyo, with each person responsible for one to three schools and working 38 days per year per school.
If non-regular workers in the ice age are earning this much, then the premise we’ve been making such a fuss about up until now falls apart lol. And if they’re earning that much, they must have plenty of contributions.
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