12/01/2022

Discretionary labor system

 Our MHLW is aiming to apply the discretionary labor system to more kinds of professions/labors. It is stated to let the workers work at their convenience. 


Actually, it was planned to have them work endlessly at low wage. The business executives would have them work long hours without paying overtime pay under the discretionary labor system. 


The tragedy is that the Labor Union is not against that "reformation". Our economy depends mainly on the domestic demand but not on export businesses. But the workers' income has been decreasing for the past 3 decades with substantial cut of the income for the workers. It has lowered labor productivity and caused very slow increase of GDP. 


This reformation or change of the work system may lead to further decrease pf labor productivity through lowered income. The top of Labor Union seems to belong to the politicians, burocrats and businessmen governening this country.


Ill health or even death from overwork among workers may be resulted by this socially unacceptable change in labor system. The executives who could improve labor productivity only through such a lousy change in labor system should be retired at present. 


I am wondering why the workers and/or the major opponent party won't oppose to such a slavery sytem in the modern world.

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