Minimum wage increases.

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Prefectural minimum wage to rise by 50 yen to 985 yen.

On the 8th, the Gunma Regional Minimum Wage Council, which is made up of labor and management representatives and experts, submitted a report to Ueno Yasuhiro, Director of the Gunma Labor Bureau, on the revision of the prefecture's minimum wage, recommending that the hourly wage for fiscal 2024 be raised by 50 yen to 985 yen.
The 50 yen increase is the largest increase since fiscal 2002, when the current method of expressing the hourly wage was introduced, and marks the 21st consecutive year of increase since fiscal 2004. The hourly wage is the highest it has ever been.