Draft agreement calls for work-sharing to save jobs
TOKYO —
A draft of an agreement between representatives of the government, employers and workers calls for promoting Japanese-style work-sharing to maintain employment amid rapid deterioration in Japan’s job situation, sources close to the matter said Thursday.
Prime Minister Taro Aso, Japan Business Federation Chairman Fujio Mitarai and Japanese Trade Union Confederation President Tsuyoshi Takagi are scheduled to meet Monday to adopt the agreement as job security has become a key issue under the current economic crisis.
This will be the first agreement between the three parties on employment in seven years since they produced a pact on the definition of work-sharing in March 2002.
The draft says the three parties should cooperate in stabilizing and creating jobs.
Japanese-style work-sharing is defined as an effort to maintain employment through employee leave, overwork reduction or transfers.
The draft urges the government to expand subsidies to companies maintaining employment through leave and other measures and utilize fiscal expansion and tax incentives for creating jobs in priority areas.
It also seeks to promote vocational training and livelihood support for people struggling to find jobs.
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proxy
I applied for my 120 000 yen government gift today and plan on spending all of it; we have a shopping list.
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seesaw
120,000 yen gift?....I thought it's 12,000 yen.
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proxy
For each adult, kids get 20 000 and if three kids the youngest gets another 34 000.
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some14some
work sharing= legalized slavary, unless house rent and utility charges are reduced, workers will live below poverty line.
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seesaw
how do you make up for 120,000 yen..?
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proxy
Opps sorry I meant we get 36 extra for younges t child 12 + 12 + 20 + 20 + 20 + 36 + = 120
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smithinjapan
I'm willing to bet they do the same work and merely share the pay. They get two employees for the price of one and reap the profits themselves.
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mareo2
In my humble opinion, I think that some of us, still dont get the picture. There is no work to do. One of three workers got kubi, the survivors have nothing to do exept to clean the machines and try to no think to much what they are going to do if they join their ex-coworkers in the hello work office.
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sf2k
what's half of nothing?
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