Comments on: Civil servants are different, especially when it comes to social security http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/yen-for-living/civil-servants-are-different-especially-when-it-comes-to-social-security/ How to make, save and spend money in Japan. Mon, 20 May 2013 22:43:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Marie http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/yen-for-living/civil-servants-are-different-especially-when-it-comes-to-social-security/comment-page-1/#comment-90545 Marie Mon, 05 Mar 2012 03:57:26 +0000 http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/yen-for-living/?p=3374#comment-90545 Though cuvil cervants (or could I also say public officers’) pension has become a much-talked-about topic recently, there is almost no talk about the endless working hours and the excess amount of overtime work these people do.
I am really tired of hearing and reading about how unfair it is.
Yes, it does look unfair if you do not look under the surface.
As in private companies, after being promoted to certain positions, civil cervants lose the right of receiving the overtime work payment.
The difference, however, is in the number of overtime work hours.
There are many who score nearly 200 hours of overwork per month, every month, regardless of the fact that they do not get paid.
I wonder how many of the people complaining about the kyousei pension system work that hard throughout the year.
I do believe that there are only few employees in private companies who would do that (except for company owners, of course). And I accept the fact that part of my tax money is used for kyousei nenkin which is remuneration for the endless, excessive overtime work of those people.
Also, the media usually fail to point out the difference between the ministry workers and the local civil cervants – try and check how much different they are in terms of amount of work and its weight.
I am a foreigner who lives in Japan and pays tax here, but I am fed up with the populist policy of the current governemnt trying to avoid criticism towards itself by setting the public officers, including those in the ministries, in the spotlight. Unfortunatley this policy has been supported quite light-heartedly by the media in this country.
Get real and try to look deeper than just the surface!
And try not to be manipulated so easily by the people in power.

]]> By: Miko http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/yen-for-living/civil-servants-are-different-especially-when-it-comes-to-social-security/comment-page-1/#comment-90438 Miko Sun, 04 Mar 2012 02:20:02 +0000 http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/yen-for-living/?p=3374#comment-90438 I don’t know much about the system, but I do know two women who made a point of marrying civil servants precisely because they were assured of a stable income and a guaranteed pension. With these new changes in the pipeworks, the women are fuming and talking about divorce. It goes without saying that they have always detested their husbands, and only married for the security.

Women are scary!

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