There are many businesses that pay different levels of wages for Japanese and non-Japanese employees. The government should establish a system to continually support foreign workers and check their wa

Let me guess. The foreign workers are paid less.

Very true. My American/and other non-Japanese international teacher friends make more than the Japanese national hired teachers.

Non-Japanese may get paid more per month but I bet they don't get twice yearly bonuses, either. When speaking to a Japanese co-worker, he automatically added in two bonuses to my salary, which per month was higher than his but per year worked out about the same. Because my employer assumed I would stay a year or two and then quit.

At a non-construction white-collar job. And I'm not from a 'lesser' Asian country. Those poor folks probably get paid a lot less.

Foreign workers are living away from their families and their home countries. For that you have to pay more to attract them. In some industries, this means paying more than the local Japanese. This is economics.

Stranger is correct. Expats make a lot more than JP Nationals

Stranger is correct. Expats make a lot more than JP Nationals

Not always. Go to a factory and they make roughly the same as locals.

Expats make a lot more than JP Nationals

That's the expat status anywhere. 98% of foreign workers are not expats.

Go to a factory and they make roughly the same as locals.

Or less. They tend to get the same as the lowest paid locals. In "good" cases, they are on baito contracts, or hired but outside the career track. And there are all those "trainees" and outstayers that are paid largely under the rate. Some factories work only with foreigners. My Asian friends would do occasionnal shifts in a food factory (making kombini bentos in a huge fridge at night). Their manager told me that if I had a hard end of month I could join even if that was not in the range of my visa... as he did not do any paperwork there, just gave cash at the end of the shift. So probably 1/3 of workers had no visa, but they had not been controlled since forever. Idem in building industry. The police is asked to not bother juicy businesses about petty rules.

The construction "trainees" I've mentioned in other posts make about 80,000 yen a month. Their Japanese coworker counterparts (entry level construction) make 300,000 yen working right along side them, doing the same thing. Is that fair?

First of all, Takashi Yamanoue, thank you for standing up for foreigners' rights.

There are many businesses that pay different levels of wages for Japanese and non-Japanese employees.

By and large, I'd say SOP.

The government should establish a system to continually support foreign workers and check their wages.

I'd say that is pretty obvious

The construction "trainees" I've mentioned in other posts make about 80,000 yen a month. Their Japanese coworker counterparts (entry level construction) make 300,000 yen working right along side them, doing the same thing. Is that fair?

Of course not.