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Elevating stagnant wages is Tokyo’s top priority and anti-deflation tool, necessary in creating a virtuous cycle of rising prices and incomes that boosts economic growth.
President Yoon Suk-yeol’s administration aims to remedy a chronic shortage of doctors in South Korea. Public opinion is firmly behind Yoon, but the KMA has enjoyed past success in…
SOUTH KOREA: Doctors' strikes will test health system
These changes, which focus particularly on casual workers, faced particular lobbying from parts of the business sector, which described them as costly and unnecessary, but they…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB282370
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Many of the changes were part of Labor’s election campaign in May, and others followed the government’s job summit in September, but last-minute changes involved multi-employer…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB274800
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INDONESIA: Wage move may be largely cosmetic
The regulation will need parliament’s endorsement by the end of its current session to become permanent legislation. In 2021, the Constitutional Court ordered the government to…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB275406
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INDIA: Protracted fight over labour reform will ensue
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES245405
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JAPAN: Jobs data adds to pressure for wage hike
Prime Minister Hun Sen says he is prepared to talk to the opposition, but that this must be in the National Assembly.