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A spokesperson for Kobe-based Kenmin Foods Co, which gave its staff an allowance, the amount of which was determined by the size of the employee’s household. With the prices of daily commodities surging in Japan, a growing number of companies are paying inflation allowances to employees to support their daily lives.
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Sven Asai
That’s not even correlated, expenses and family size. Otherwise they would have enormous costs in African big sized families and a single company manager here would live from only 1500 yen a day. Neither is the case, the African big family has almost no expenses and the manager has enormous costs for household helper, home office staff, swimming pool cleaner, yacht captain and helicopter or business jet gasoline, for example.
kohakuebisu
I thought allowances like this, called "teate", were already widespread at old-fashioned companies.