In this bulletin:
- Bonuses to be increased for non-regular staff at local government offices: aim is to start in 2024
- Digital wage payments: MHWL planning to set up specialist department
- “Fee amounts must be clearly indicated” to protect freelance workers: Cabinet decides on a bill, with fines for non-compliance
- “Central Minimum Wage Commission Plenary Meeting Report on Guideline System”, Feb. 27, 2023, 9th Plenary Meeting on Guideline System
- “Pay an appropriate wage”: part-time teacher at Kakegawa Nishi H.S. sends prefecture a Request for Measures
- Modern artists form union, seeking improvement in exploitative situation
- “All my classes and seminars were taken away”, Osaka Sangyo U. lecturer complains; result of his pointing out dean’s mistake?
- Professors file complaint: “negotiation attitude lacking good faith”–prefectural Labor Commission orders Matsuyama U. to “deliver a letter of apology”; unfair labor practice recognized
- CPI up 4.2% year-on-year: biggest rise in 41 years, 4 months
- Welfare benefit applications up for third year in a row; main causes may be inflation and end of COVID-19 relief
- Domestic companies’ ordinary profit down 2.8% in last quarter of last year
And more!!