In Japan, viele Einzelpersonen– Besonders Frauen – Führen Sie diese Gesellschaft und Arbeitsplätze ein bevorzugen diejenigen mit FamilienEinzelpersonen mit Personen mit Weitere Verantwortlichkeiten Und Weniger Vorteile.
💬 Was alleinstehende Frauen sagen:
- Eine Frau teilte ihre Frustration anonym mit: „Einige Leute nehmen lange bezahlte Mutterschaftsblätter, kehren niemals zurück und stehen vor keinen Strafen. In der Zwischenzeit muss der Rest von uns die Lücke aufnehmen. Das fühlt sich nicht fair an.“
- Ein anderer kommentierte das Neue „Kürze für Kinder, verkürztes Arbeitszuschuss“was hilft, den Einkommensverlust während der kürzeren Arbeitszeit für die Elternschaft zu decken: „Warum sind es ihre Vorteile, die immer expandieren? Was ist mit uns, die ihre Arbeit abdecken? “
Sie argumentieren das:
- Diejenigen, die für abwesende Mitarbeiter abdecken, sollten auch zusätzliche Bezahlung oder Unterstützung erhalten.
- Vorteile sollten sein ausgewogenEs fühlt sich also nicht so an, als würde eine Gruppe immer verlieren.
🧾 Was ändert sich eigentlich?
Einige Unternehmen in Japan geben jetzt zusätzliche Zulagen An Kollegen, die für die Mutterschafts- oder Vaterschaftsurlaub abdecken. Die japanische Regierung hat ebenfalls angefangen, das Angebot zu erhalten Subventionen Um diese Unterstützungssysteme in kleinen Unternehmen zu finanzieren.
Trotzdem fühlen sich viele alleinstehende Menschen Soziale Systeme ignorieren sie:
🌏 Was andere Länder tun:
In Südkoreawo Geburtsräume noch niedriger sind als Japans, haben einige Unternehmen eingeführt „Leistungen der einzelnen Mitarbeiter“ -unverheiratete langfristige Arbeitnehmer Bargeld oder Waren anbieten, um das wachsende Gefühl der Ungleichheit zu verringern.
🔍 Ansicht des Soziologen:
Soziologe Masahiro Yamada (Professor an der Chuo University) weist auf eine kulturelle Kluft hin:
- In Europa und die USAnehmen die Leute an Systeme können geändert werden.
- In Japanviele nehmen das System an kann nicht geändert werdenAlso beschuldigen sie sich gegenseitig anstelle des Systems.
Er warnt:
Schlüssel zum Mitnehmen:
Japans Arbeitsplatzsystem, das in alten Annahmen über Ehe und Familie verwurzelt ist, ist zunehmend nicht mit der modernen Realität einzelner Arbeitnehmer hinausgegangen – und es sei denn, Unternehmen werden das Ungleichgewicht, Ressentiments und Abteilung weiter wachsen.
https://dot.asahi.com/articles/-/260617?page=1
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I can relate to this. Even with men taking paternal leaves, those who are at the office end up taking up all the work. Unfortunately, in the current Japanese structure, those who end up taking the work aren’t paid more. It’s nice that parents want to work remotely so they can be with their children more often and be able to attend school events, but their work don’t disappear and the company aren’t hiring more people because of it either.
The people left at the office have to attend all the off-line meetings for them and do all the jobs that can’t be done remotely. In some cases, that accounts for over 90% of the job while those working remotely are just holding online meetings with each other.
OK, I’ve been living and working in Korea for years now.
My last company I worked for here was a US company with regional offices in over 60 countries. But since this company was in Korea, they had to follow the Korean labor laws.
So, at that time (some years ago), when female employees got pregnant, they got paid maternity leave (90 days for 1 newborn, 120 days for twins) and the fathers got automatic paid paternity leave (10 days? 13 days?). I think it’s more nowadays.
Then, there’s also a paid parental leave. It means mothers and fathers each can take off 1 year per one child.
So, if a couple has 2 kids, that’s 4 years in total.
And they can take that 1 year off anytime they want as long as the kid is under 8 years old.
For example, you, as a parent, can take 6 months off when the baby is 2 years old and the other 6 months off when they baby is 4 years old. Or 4 months here and 8 month there, or however you want it.
And you get paid directly from the government for these paid leaves, not the company, so no hassle with the company.
Also, parents in Korea get paid about $1,000 per month per child from the government and ALL KINDS of children/parents/family benefits : free child care, free after school child care, free education, scholarships, half college tuition, housing advantages, all kinds of prenatal care/benefits, post birth care/benefits, etc, etc, etc.
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Anyway, when the female head of my department went on an 8 month parental leave, the company made me take on her duties on top of my own duties.
It was the first time that kind of thing ever happened to me, and at that time, I was younger and so naive and stupid that it didn’t occur to me to ask for a raise and get the agreement in writing in advance.
So, I did two people’s work for 8 months and only after she returned, I emailed the Asia regional office (that oversees all reginal offices in dozens of Asian countries) and the US headquarters with the list of all the extra tasks I had to do and how much overtime I did and asked for financial compensation.
And I so naively thought they would just pay it because I obviously did two people’s work for 8 months. It was only fair.
But it became back and forth, back and forth with tons of emails and skype messages for months with the US headquarter people, and eventually, they said they won’t pay me because there’s no written agreement saying the company would pay me for any extra work.
I got totally screwed.
I felt so stupid and used and learned a life lesson the hard way.
I somehow thought a US company must be progressive and fair and treat their employees well because, you know, the US is supposed to be an advanced, progressive, the fairest, the most democratic, the richest country in the world. lol
I only realized later if the company didn’t have to follow the Korean labor laws, there would be no paid maternity/paternity/parental leave or no mandatory 3-4 weeks vacations or no mandatory severance pay and no cheap healthcare and other benefits.
My only consolation is, soon after I quit the company, it was sold and acquired by its biggest rival company (a Korean media company). So, now this huge international company doesn’t even exist anymore. Ha.
I mean… To be fair, it is the employer who should be dealing with the need for more staff. Not to force their work onto other people.
But… That isn’t going to happen isn’t it 🤣
Damn even other women are hating on women that take off for maternity leave
• In Europe and the U.S., people assume systems can be changed.
• In Japan, many assume the system can’t be changed, so they blame each other instead of the system.
Damn, I’ve lived here for years and this is the first time this thing that’s been smacking me in the face all the time has been articulated so simply and clearly.
Congratulations complainers, you have successfully been divided and fallen to infighting YET again.
The issue isnt parents vs singles, men vs women etc etc its US vs a social/financial system which is fundamentally inflexible and unsuitable to deal with the issues of a collapsing population
It is pretty simple here in Germany.
If employees are absent due to parental leave, the employer! is therefore obliged to distribute the work in such a way that no overtime occurs and that the employees work in the specialist area for which they were contractually assigned. So, he either has to hire part-time workers or an additional employee.
So, if he can not do this… that’s not my fu@king problem. I don’t have to, and he can not fire me. Worker protection law! fu@k yeah! That’s what they need. Real protective laws.
> Favor those with families
WELL FUCK I WONDER WHY
I’m not entirely sure single women complaining about about less benefits in the workplace and looking to the government for support Will is gonna go far in countries where population decline is threatening the very fabric of those societies.
It also depends on the attitude of the workers. When I work and another takes a sick day, it does mean I work a bit harder because Im dealing with more customers. However, I still only work 8 hours. Meaning any unfinished work will just remain unfinished. Its up to the boss to hire more staff to get that work done.
I honestly don’t mind. Im still only at work for 8 hours.
I never understand the belly aching from single people.
1.)
You NEED children to be born, so when you are older there is a younger generation to work and support the economy, which will in turn support you in old age and provide services.
Raising children takes a metric fuck ton of money and time, of which you will “pay” none, since you don’t have children. So you get all the benefits of the next generation to support you, while baring none of the major/intensive costs of raising them.
And you complain about working parents getting some benefits / help
2.)
Only people with no kids thing “reduced working hours” somehow equals “time off / relaxation time”. Yes, when people with kids get home the first thing they do is chill out and relax for 2 hours 😂. It’s the second shift of their 2-job life, they are still working hard.
Disagree. One person is doing the country a service by bringing someone into the world who will help fund their pensions. The other will probably complain that their pension will be even worse when they retire. It’s the companies responsibility to make it a non issue.
The system is completely understandable once you realise that the government benefits from people having families. Creating incentives may be seen as unfair, but that doesn’t make them unjustified. Raising children is labour as well, and one that the state massively benefits from in the long run. Much more than from current overtime