MHWL releases Labor Market (payment) Statistics for December 2018

MHLW shares the once dishonest statistics on labor market situation again

After a few months of silence, the ministry resumes statistics sharing on the payments to the workers. The figure tampering seems not the monopoly of the neighboring great nation, anyway.

For Dec. 2018

https://www.mhlw.go.jp/toukei/itiran/roudou/monthly/30/3012p/dl/pdf3012p.pdf

Ministry of Health Welfare and Labor (MHWL)releases the statistics as under, saying that the paid amount for full time workers increased by 1.9% and for part time workers it increased by 0.4%, and part time worker’s hourly wage rose 2.5% when they are compared with the same month in2017

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For 2018 calendar year

https://www.mhlw.go.jp/toukei/itiran/roudou/monthly/30/30cp/dl/pdf30cp.pdf