{"id":140902,"date":"2025-10-23T16:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T16:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/140902\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T16:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T16:31:15","slug":"japans-largest-union-group-rengo-seeks-5-wage-hike-for-the-coming-fiscal-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/140902\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s largest union group Rengo seeks 5% wage hike for the coming fiscal year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">Rengo is Japan&#8217;s largest labour union group and have announced that they would be seeking wage hikes of 5% or more in fiscal year 2026. That would see them try to target another bumper wage hike for a third year running. However, the big challenge this time around is that firms will have more difficulties in delivering that amid lower corporate profits from US tariffs. So, it&#8217;s going to be a challenge to see how they can keep up the wage momentum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">As a reminder, the figure in 2023 was 3.80%. In 2024, it was 5.10%. And in 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/news\/japans-largest-union-group-rengo-sees-final-average-wage-hike-of-525-this-fiscal-year-20250703\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article-link\" data-v-4026719d=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">it was 5.25%<\/a> &#8211; watered down from the initial figure of 5.46%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rengo is Japan&#8217;s largest labour union group and have announced that they would be seeking wage hikes of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,179,18,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-140902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115424440526844372","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}