愛知縣雇員減薪

Recently Mainichi News reported the following:

愛知県は１４日、一般職員の給与を１０年度から４％削減する案を県職員組合など１３の職員団体に提示した。２８００億円に上る財源不足を受けたためで、実施されれば、２年連続で給与の抑制となる。 県人事課によると、対象は行政職員、警察官、教員などの計約７万４０００人。０９年度に比べ、４％が削減されると、一般職員の平均で給与が年１７万円、期末手当７万円がそれぞれ減額される。職員は既に１０年度から地域手当の１．５％削減が決まっており、合わせると、１０年度から年３３万円の減少となり、全体では３０８億円の抑制効果があるという。愛知県の１０年度予算は０９年度比で、県税収入が１０８０億円の減収を見込んでおり、社会保障費の増額など歳出も膨らむことが予測されることなどから、現段階で２８００億円の財源不足となっている。県は県債の大幅な発行などで改善に努めていたが、歳出抑制策として職員の給与削減が避けられないと判断した。

On the 14th, Aichi Prefecture presented to 13 prefecture faculty union employee organizations about the idea of reducing regular employee's salary from 2010 fiscal year by 4%. Salary control was carried out 2 years in a row because it had a funding shortage up to 280 billion yen. According to the prefecture personnel division, the target of this reduction was 74,000 people in total which would include administrative staff, policemen, and teachers. On average for a regular employee, when a 4% salary reduction was made compared with fiscal year 2009, a reduction of 170,000 yen of yearly payment and 70,000 yen of the end of the term payment would be achieved respectively. Adding to the 1.5% reduction in regional subsidies that had already been decided since 2010 fiscal year, the staff might suffer a cut up to 330,000 yen a year in 2010 fiscal year, and as a whole producing an effect of controlling the amount to 30.8 billion yen. In Aichi Prefecture, compared with fiscal year 2009, prefecture tax revenue had a forecasted decrease of 108 billion yen, while the annual expenditure like the increase of cost of Social Security etc. had contributed to the annual expenditure increase, thus creating a 280 billion yen budget shortage in 2010 fiscal year at the present stage. As an annual expenditure control plan, the staff salary reduction was judged to be unavoidable, although the prefecture was seeking improvement by the issuing prefecture bond in great number.

From the above, it seems that many Japanese are still struggling with a tight budget.