日本政府考虑延期劳动法改造

Japan-Government considers delaying labour reform after admitting to flaws in work hours survey (Japan Today)

Japan's government is considering postponing the implementation of parts of a labour reform bill after it admitted to flaws in its work hours survey, reports Japan Today.  Opposition parties have accused the government of deliberately designing the survey to make it look like expanding the "discretionary labour" system would help lessen Japan's chronic overwork problem and argue it could have the opposite effect. Under the system employees are given a fixed number of overtime hours and are paid on the assumption they worked those hours, meaning any further overtime goes unpaid. The survey on working hours concluded that the average worker on a discretionary labor contract generally works shorter hours than one on a conventional contract. But the Labour Ministry said this week that it used two different methods to collect the respective data, making the survey statistically unsound.

今日日本报道：日本政府在发现对工作时间的调查中出现错误后，已经开始考虑推迟实行部分劳动法改造法案的进行。在野党指责政府是故意设计了此项调查，使其看起来像在扩张"可自由支配的劳动"系统，但这项调查却产生了相反的结果。在这套系统下，员工的超时工作时间被记录并根据他们假设的工作时间支付其工资，这意味着更多的超时工作时间是没有报酬的。此项调查得出这样一个结论，中等熟练程度工人的自由支配劳动的合同通常工作时间比传统的合同要少。对此调查结果，劳工部长发表声明称这份调查并不健全，因为在收集数据时使用了两种不同的方法，因此有误差。

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