This year's spring labor offensive has virtually started on the 23rd, but the focus is on how far the wage increase movement will spread.
When a Shinkin bank in Tokyo conducted an interview survey of more than 700 small and medium-sized companies that it does business with, it was found that more than 70% answered that they had no plans to raise wages.
In this survey, the person in charge directly visited and interviewed 738 small and medium-sized companies with which the Jonan Shinkin Bank, which has 85 stores in Tokyo and Kanagawa, has transactions from the 10th to the 13th of this month.
According to this, when asked about plans for future wage increases,
▽ 537 companies, or 72.8%, answered that they have no plans for wage increases.
SMEs reportedly
complained that "business performance has not improved and it is difficult to forecast" and
"the price of purchased parts has risen significantly
. "
In addition,
▽ 198 companies (26.8%) answered that they were planning to raise wages.
When we asked this company about their outlook for the rate of wage increase,
35.4% answered that they would be in the ▽1% range,
followed
by 27.8% that were in the 2% range, and
13.6% that were in the 3% range
.
The Jonan Shinkin Bank, which conducted the survey, analyzed that ``It is difficult for small and medium-sized enterprises at the end of the supply chain to pass on the increase in costs due to price increases, which is a factor that does not lead to wage increases.'' I'm here.