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Labor union withdraws support for white-collar overtime exemption

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so Rengo (controlled by Nippon Kaigie) don't want "another" exception aka, construction, transport, doctors...from the law allowing 100 hours overtime a month? This is so messed up. It's gotten so obtuse it's farcical. Meanwhile tax payers money gets waisted as endless meetings continue with no fathomable result, except we get whipped again.

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Suga said the government will "make efforts to gain understanding from concerned parties" to pass the labor standard reform bill during an extraordinary Diet session this autumn.

We all know what the LDPs "make efforts to gain understanding" means ( see Okinawa Base problems ): Force it through like without allowing any input.

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They should prohibit all OT unless you prove that you are above avg in production during the first 40 hours.

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Under the government proposal, certain highly skilled workers with annual incomes of at least 10.75 million yen ($96,830) would be exempted from work-hour regulations, including overtime pay. They would be paid based on performance, not hours worked.

LDP is so shameless, they already have allowed companies to exploit white collar workers by exempting managers from overtime regulations, how is this a reform?

Companies are fully taking advantage of Manager's exemption from overtime regulations, I don't get paid overtime as (It is included in my salary as manager), luckily I work under a good boss so I can still leave on time but I have heard about some Line managers forcing their workers to work "mandatory overtime" as it is included in their salaries.

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I should think workers earning "annual incomes of at least 10.75 million yen ($96,830)" are capable of taking their labour elsewhere if unhappy with their work conditions.

Don't both the government and Rengo have far more important areas to be focusing on rather than employment conditions for (what would appear to be) upper-middle class workers and above?

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The expression "performance-related pay" sounds good and in a genuine form is what Japan needs, but exempting managers from overtime limits just means more and more workers stuck in offices until late because bucho hasn't gone home.

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Those exempt from overtime payments should have the freedom to set their own working hours. If they do not have that freedom they should be paid overtime like any other worker. This is the current law, and I think McDonalds lost a claim by a "manager" for overtime on these grounds. Of course, in most cases companies ignore the law and never get taken to court.

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