According to the latest statistics released by the authorities, Japan is still the country that employs the most seniors. As the government keeps increasing retirement age, a lot of businesses don’t want these older workers and are trying to get rid of their “big salaries,” even if it means forcing them to quit or increasing their precariousness.
A lot of businesses rejected the increase in retirement age decided by the government in 2013. Indeed, retirement age has been constantly increasing: up to 62 in April 2006, up to 63 between 2007 and 2009, up to 64 between 2010 and 2012, and then to 65 in 2013. According to a survey by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the number of workers aged 60-65 had also gone up before the 2013 reform (+9.3 percent in 2008 and then another 4 percent in 2012). With 77 percent of people aged 60-
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