※2024/7/30 10:15 Asahi Shimbun Regarding the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare’s Central Minimum Wage Council’s decision to raise the national weighted average minimum wage (hourly wage) by 50 yen (5.0%) to 1,054 yen, Shimane Governor Tatsuya Maruyama pointed out at a regular press conference on the 25th that small and medium-sized enterprises “do not have the financial strength to respond.” He sharply criticized the move, saying, “He seems like an evil magistrate, like a demon.” Governor Maruyama said that raising the minimum wage amid continuing rising prices is “the goal we should aim for.” On the other hand, he cited a survey by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare that found that wage increases this year for small and medium-sized enterprises with fewer than 30 employees were 2.3%, and said that a 5% increase would be “a wage increase that exceeds the financial capacity of small and medium-sized enterprises. This could lead to a decline in profits and even a loss.” Continue reading below
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It’s a message from the government that companies that can’t do that should go under. It’s true that the number of companies will need to be reduced as the workforce decreases.
The big corporations that are friends of the LDP and donate to them can raise wages because they make money from tax money, but everyone else has to pay for it out of their own pockets. It’s pretty unfair.
Even with a minimum wage of 1,000 yen, the annual income doesn’t even reach 2 million yen, so do small and medium-sized businesses think they’re operating as slave traders if they can’t even make that much?
>>16 People who work for the minimum wage are not productive, so that’s the hourly wage they get. It’s not that they can’t make it, it’s just that the hourly wage is commensurate with their abilities.
If a company can’t pay personnel costs and has to terminate employment, it will lose its strength… It’s cruel to ask a company to cut staff even further when they’re already short on manpower after promoting parental leave so much.
Even if we don’t grow without raising wages, other countries will grow and raise labor costs, so we’ll just die from the cost of materials. There are almost no industries that can be fully covered domestically.
“I pull him up knowing that he will suffer if he does it. This is a political responsibility. The biggest problem is that they are forcing it through despite not creating an environment in which it should be done,” he emphasized, calling for the early realization of an environment in which small and medium-sized enterprises can pass on price increases. Price pass-on?
What’s more of a burden than the minimum wage is universal health insurance, pensions, and other taxes. Even if your annual income is around 2.5 million, your take-home pay is only about 1.4 million. Even if the government takes a million and your company covers it, this is what you get.
Over 10 years of unprecedented monetary easing have resulted in the yen falling to a historic low, and while foreigners are buying up Japanese land and women and drinking on the streets as if they own the place, Japanese people are suffering from the weak yen and high prices, and even school lunches for children are becoming poorer. The weak yen is only making profits for big corporations and foreigners at the expense of the majority of Japanese people.
>>27 But Japanese students have such poor English skills that they can’t find work overseas Korean students are still more successful overseas Their education is also at an end.
This is the price we pay for not strengthening small and medium-sized businesses. Japan is definitely heading in the direction of destroying rural areas and small and medium-sized businesses, but at the same time, that means the decline of the nation.
>>34 Up until now, Abenomics has been pampering small and medium-sized businesses too much with its extraordinary monetary easing and subsidies. In the first place, there are too few business closures in Japan. Productivity and wages don’t rise because worthless companies that should go under don’t go under. The same goes for the rural issue. It’s a choice between making the most of people or making the most of the region, and since Kakuei Tanaka it’s always been the latter, but from now on we should change to a people-centered approach.
>>37 There are many different types of small and medium-sized businesses in rural areas, and it depends on the industry and size of the company, but aren’t the owners of zombie businesses working for less than the minimum wage? Like convenience store owners.
The ones who will suffer the most are the incompetent employees who have been slacking up until now. If the minimum wage goes up, there will be no room to be nice to employees.
Isn’t it the local government’s labor committee that decides the minimum wage? The figures from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare are only a guideline, and if the local government committee doesn’t like it, they can just not raise it, so isn’t it out of place to tell the national government?
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