Court orders Japan Post to close wage gap for contract workers

The three were awarded 80 percent of extra holiday pay and 60 percent of housing allowance, coming out to between about 40,000 and 500,000 yen each.

So one is getting 40,000, the other 500,000, does that mean the third one is getting 380,000?

That is a hell of a gap in compensation there? I wonder what the one getting 40,000 asked for in the first place?

@Yubaru - I assumed it meant the holiday pay was 40,000, the housing allowance was 500,000, so each person gets those two amounts, no?

Arguably the biggest capital holder in Japan, it is one of the miserly to its staff.....

Every Japanese company does this.

I hate these great behemoth Japanese companies - they sit on record amounts of mountains of cash and continue to exploit their workforce serfs as if they were born to rule Feudal lords. Stand up for yourselves workers of Japan and start striking.

Great news, JP has a massive income let's see that tricycle down effect before they change the Law...stupid poor people should get a break now and then.

Long past time to properly reform Japan's labour laws.

Great news, JP has a massive income let's see that tricycle down effect before they change the Law, JP is way too inefficient, needs to cut much of its office staff or put them into delivery. what many dont realize is JP doesn't charge any consumption tax as it is exempt from it being mostly government owned. This effectively gives them a 8% advantage over their other deliver rivals and they still cant be competitive.

Sounds like the perfect opportunity for JP to lower the wages and benefits of their full-time employees!

 JP doesn't charge any consumption tax as it is exempt from it being mostly government owned.

I'm pretty sure that they do; they had to start taking it when JP was privatized, which is why letters and postcards rose to 82 and 52 yen when the consumption tax went up. The numbers on the stamps include consumption tax:

https://www.post.japanpost.jp/question/23.html

I assumed it meant the holiday pay was 40,000, the housing allowance was 500,000, so each person gets those two amounts, no?

Good question, as they were only awarded a total of 920,000 between the three of them, which should average out to roughly 300,000 per person. Hence my initial remark.

The three only got a fraction of the 15 million sought, so who knows, poorly written article, that's for sure.