{"id":81584,"date":"2013-09-05T16:05:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T07:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=41744"},"modified":"2016-04-01T02:55:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:55:48","slug":"despite-increase-kyushu-minimum-wages-still-low","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/despite-increase-kyushu-minimum-wages-still-low\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Increase, Kyushu Minimum Wages Still Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the announcement of the minimum wage by the Miyazaki Prefecture Labor Bureau\u2019s Regional Minimum Wage Council on Sept. 3, minimum wages for all seven of Kyushu\u2019s prefectures have been released. All seven prefectures have boosted their minimum wages across the board by \u00a511, the second highest hike since the \u00a512~13 increase in 2010, and these will go into effect starting in mid-October. Aside from Fukuoka\u2019s \u00a5712, minimum wages in Kyushu are some of the lowest in the country, ranking alongside Kochi and Shimane prefectures, and have yet to reach the national average of \u00a5763. One employer involved in the wage deliberations reacted by saying, \u201cIt\u2019s odd to have a double-digit increase despite a stalled economic recovery. The amount was politically motivated by the mood of the Abe administration.\u201d Source: Nishinippon Shimbun. 9\/4<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-41749\" alt=\"r332648_1502287\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/r332648_1502287.jpg?w=640\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/r332648_1502287.jpg?w=840&amp;ssl=1 840w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/r332648_1502287.jpg?resize=300%2C196&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the announcement of the minimum wage by the Miyazaki Prefecture Labor Bureau\u2019s Regional Minimum Wage Council on Sept. 3, minimum wages for all seven of Kyushu\u2019s prefectures have been released. All seven prefectures have boosted their minimum wages across the board by \u00a511, the second highest hike since the \u00a512~13 increase in 2010, and these will go into effect starting in mid-October. Aside from Fukuoka\u2019s \u00a5712, minimum wages in Kyushu are some of the lowest in the country, ranking alongside Kochi and Shimane prefectures, and have yet to reach the national average of \u00a5763. One employer involved in the wage deliberations reacted by saying, \u201cIt\u2019s odd to have a double-digit increase despite a stalled economic recovery. The amount was politically motivated by the mood of the Abe administration.\u201d Source: Nishinippon Shimbun. 9\/4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6391,"featured_media":41749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-81584","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-society","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/81584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}