FUKUOKA, Sep 07 (News On Japan) –
The Fukuoka Prefectural Labor Bureau beneath the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare introduced a 51-yen enhance within the minimal wage for Fukuoka Prefecture, bringing the hourly wage to 992 yen, marking the most important enhance to this point.
The Fukuoka Labor Bureau introduced on Thursday the hike within the minimal hourly wage, which should be paid to all employees.
This enhance displays the rising price of dwelling and wage hikes seen on this 12 months’s spring labor negotiations, elevating the prefecture’s minimal wage from the earlier 941 yen to 992 yen.
The 51-yen enhance is the most important margin since hourly wages started to be tracked in 2002, surpassing the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare’s Central Minimum Wage Council’s advice of a 50-yen enhance.
The new wage will apply to all employees in Fukuoka Prefecture ranging from October 5.
Source: FBS福岡放送ニュース