Welfare pension application expansion Small and medium-sized business group “Effect of burden increase is great” November 5, 17:31
Liberal Democratic Party hearings on the expansion of the application of the Employees' Pension to short-time workers working in part-time, etc. There were a lot of opinions about the current status and a gradual reduction.
To join the Employees' Pension, a company with more than 501 employees is required to work for 20 hours or more a week and have a monthly salary of 88,000 yen or more. We are considering reducing the company-wide requirements to make it easier to join.
On this day, the Liberal Democratic Party's Social Security System Research Committee interviewed from organizations made up of SMEs.
Among them, the National Small Business Association Central Association, etc. demands that SMEs pay more than half of their insurance premiums, and that the burden of SMEs increases, so that the requirement of `` more than 501 employees '' should be maintained as it is. It was.
On top of that, even if mitigation was made, there was an opinion calling for a gradual reduction because it would have a significant impact if it expanded to 100 or 50 companies.
On the other hand, the Japan Chain Store Association and others indicated that it would be unfair that the membership conditions differ depending on the size of the company, and accepted the relaxed requirements.
The Liberal Democratic Party will continue to hear from related organizations and will put together concrete measures within this month.