Abe urges Japanese companies to raise wages for workers to beat deflation
Abe urges Japanese companies to raise wages for workers to beat deflation
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is urging business leaders to raise wages, saying it could help stimulate domestic demand and beat chronic deflation.
“We’ll ask for the cooperation of companies whose performance is improving” in a bid to boost national income through wage increases, Abe said during a meeting Tuesday of the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy, the government’s key economic panel.
It is rare for a prime minister to directly put pressure on business circles to raise wages. Pay is usually determined through negotiations between management and labor.
Akira Amari, economic and fiscal policy minister, said at a news conference after the meeting that the government has also started to consider effective measures to promote business spending and to bolster employment of women, as well as young and elderly people.
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