http://www.mutantfrog.com Photos, Stories and articles on East Asia Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:58:45 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.mutantfrog.com/nakagawa-cautious-on-relaxing-wage-hour-regulations/comment-page-1/#comment-103889 Mutantfrog Travelogue » Blog Archive » “White Collar Exemption” and the danger to the LDP Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:53:18 +0000 http://www.mutantfrog.com/nakagawa-cautious-on-relaxing-wage-hour-regulations/#comment-103889 [...] Predictably, the opposition parties (who are backed by labor unions), and even some LDP and Komeito members, came out strongly against the new rules, forcing LDP Secretary General Hidenao Nakagawa to try and put the brakes on the laws with some comforting statements on popular talk shows. In the past few days, there’s been some confusion as to just what the LDP will do with this bill: yesterday, news reports indicated that Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki confirmed at a press conference that the kantei wants to submit the proposal in the upcoming Diet session, though at a higher salary threshold (9 million yen) than the original proposal, meaning that only about 20,000 people would be affected. It’s unclear how many people would have been affected under the original plan. But today, it looks like both the government and the LDP have agreed to postpone the decision as to whether to submit the bills in this session until after the budget for FY2007 is passed this spring. MLHW Hakuo Yanagisawa apparently exerted his influence after having a change of heart on the matter as supposed misunderstandings about the bill could pose a serious threat come election time. However, the government is likely to submit the bills late in the hopes of securing passing in an extraordinary Diet session in the fall. [...] [...] Predictably, the opposition parties (who are backed by labor unions), and even some LDP and Komeito members, came out strongly against the new rules, forcing LDP Secretary General Hidenao Nakagawa to try and put the brakes on the laws with some comforting statements on popular talk shows. In the past few days, there’s been some confusion as to just what the LDP will do with this bill: yesterday, news reports indicated that Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki confirmed at a press conference that the kantei wants to submit the proposal in the upcoming Diet session, though at a higher salary threshold (9 million yen) than the original proposal, meaning that only about 20,000 people would be affected. It’s unclear how many people would have been affected under the original plan. But today, it looks like both the government and the LDP have agreed to postpone the decision as to whether to submit the bills in this session until after the budget for FY2007 is passed this spring. MLHW Hakuo Yanagisawa apparently exerted his influence after having a change of heart on the matter as supposed misunderstandings about the bill could pose a serious threat come election time. However, the government is likely to submit the bills late in the hopes of securing passing in an extraordinary Diet session in the fall. [...]

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