{"id":18717,"date":"2020-07-24T07:59:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T04:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=18717"},"modified":"2020-07-30T21:44:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T18:44:57","slug":"japans-average-minimum-wage-should-stay-the-same-amid-virus-resurgence-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/japans-average-minimum-wage-should-stay-the-same-amid-virus-resurgence-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s average minimum wage should stay the same amid virus resurgence: panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>Japan&#8217;s average minimum hourly wage should be maintained at the current level, a subcommittee of the government&#8217;s Central Minimum Wage Council decided on July 22, in a rare move amid the economic downturn due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. The subcommittee of the panel to the labor minister drew up a report showing no benchmark for a hike in regional minimum hourly wages for fiscal 2020 in consideration of the pandemic-hit economy. &#8221;It is appropriate to maintain the current level,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Management representatives argued that the government&#8217;s state of emergency declaration over the novel coronavirus and requests for businesses to shut down temporarily to curb the spread of the virus specifically brought &#8221;a significant loss in demand.&#8221; They insisted that a wage hike would &#8221;drive small- and mid-scale companies and smaller businesses further into predicament.&#8221; Labor representatives, meanwhile, claimed that forgoing a minimum wage hike &#8221;would increase social insecurity and is tantamount to approving an economic gap&#8221; amidst the resurgence of coronavirus infections.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, experts representing public interest suggested factors including that the recent surge in the number of new infections following the lifting of the state of emergency &#8221;requires caution for its effects on the economy and employment&#8221; and concluded that &#8221;it is difficult to indicate a benchmark amount and maintaining the current levels is appropriate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/mainichi.jp\/english\/articles\/20200723\/p2a\/00m\/0na\/011000c\">Mainichi<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s average minimum hourly wage should be maintained at the current level, a subcommittee of the government&#8217;s Central Minimum Wage Council decided on July 22,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,76,40],"tags":[272,187,1184,2291],"class_list":["post-18717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-csr-news-en","category-recap-en","category-weben","tag-economy","tag-japan","tag-wage","tag-worklife","wpcat-32-id","wpcat-76-id","wpcat-40-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rsz_vaulogo.jpg?fit=100%2C58&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18719,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18717\/revisions\/18719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}