[Michael_Voyageur]

MacDonald's Japan et d'autres chaines de restauration s'opposent a la reforme du systeme des retraite japonais proposee par le 1er ministre Koizumi.
Cette reforme demanderait notamment une part de financement plus elevée de la part de l'employeur pour les contrats a mi-temps, or la restauration rapide est un tres gros employeurs de "part-timers" et autre employés temporaires etc (85% du personnel des 149 sociétés de la Japan Food Service Association serait en temps partiel)... Au total la reforme pourait couter plus de 235 millions de dollars a l'industrie de la restauration (cf article).

Source : Bloomberg
Vu sur : Bloomberg

McDonald's Japan, Rivals Oppose Koizumi's Pension Changes

Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- McDonald's Holdings Co. Japan Ltd., the country's biggest fast-food chain, and other Japanese restaurant chains staffed mostly by part-time workers say government plans to expand the country's public pension system are too expensive.

``We don't know exactly how much this will affect us, but it certainly won't be good,'' said Kenji Kaniya, a spokesman for the company. McDonald's Japan, which is half-owned by its Oak Brook, Illinois-based parent, employs 90,000 part-time workers at the non- franchise outlets it directly manages.

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has vowed to draft by year- end legislation overhauling the underfunded public pension system, to prevent deficits as the nation's population ages. Opposition from industry groups may make it difficult for Koizumi to win parliamentary support for the changes.

The Japan Food Service Association, representing McDonald's Japan and 149 other food firms, said it opposes bringing under the system part-timers who work more than 20 hours a week. Matching pension contributions by part-time staff would cost employers 25.5 billion yen ($235 million) a year, it said.

The association plans to forward to Health Minister Chikara Sakaguchi a 1.4 million-signature petition opposing the plan. About 85 percent of staff at companies in the group work part- time.

Koizumi's plan would raise pension contributions by full-time workers, in increments of 0.35 percentage point a year, to 20 percent of earnings by 2022. It would also trim pension payouts to help balance the books as the number of Japanese 65 or older swells to about third of the population by 2025, from 18 percent in 2001.

Last Updated: December 4, 2003 20:22 EST
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[Maitre K]

Je trouve cette idee de Koizumi excellente !

Beaucoup de societes profitent beaucoup trop des avantages qu'offrent le travail a temps partiel (arubaito) au point que cela non seulement porte prejudice a l'etat mais aussi aux travailleurs qui ne peuvent se contenter d'un contrat d'arbutaito.

Je rappel que ce type de contrat offre generalement un salaire jusqu'a 50% inferieur a celui d'un veritable employe, pas de bonus et pratiquement aucune prestation sociale.

Ce type de contrat est une tres bonne chose dans la mesure ou cela permet a certaines societe d'offrire a leurs clients des prestations qui demandent peu de qualifications. Ce type de contrat permet aussi a de noumbreux etudiant de financer leurs etudes. MAIS: la crise aidant, beaucoup de societe preferent utiliser des arubaito plutot que d'engager de vrais employes afin de faire des economies. C'est ce genre d'abus qu'il faut contrer et cette reforme va dans la bonne direction !
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