岸田首相、政労使会議の月内開催調整　春闘の賃上げ呼び掛け

　岸田文雄首相は１７日の政府・与党連絡会議で、政府と労働界、経済界の代表による「政労使会議」の開催を調整していると明らかにした。首相周辺によると月内に開く方向。春闘を見据え、「物価上昇を超える賃上げ」を呼び掛ける。６月には定額減税を実施する予定で、支持率が低迷する中、政権浮揚につなげたい狙いもあるとみられる。
　政労使会議は昨年３月と１１月に続き、岸田政権で３回目。連合は春闘で昨年を上回る「５％以上」の賃上げを要求する方針を掲げている。
　連絡会議で、首相は「官民が連携し、賃金が上がり可処分所得が増える状況を今夏には確実につくる。国民の実感を積み重ね、社会全体の意識を変えていく」と強調。医療、介護、障害者福祉の団体に対し、近く賃上げを要請する意向も示した。（2024/01/17-19:59）

Arrangements are underway to hold a meeting of representatives from the Japanese government, business and labor communities, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Wednesday.
   Kishida is expected to call for wage hikes that exceed the inflation rate at the meeting, ahead of this year's "shunto" spring labor-management wage talks.
   The prime minister apparently wants to boost his administration, which plans to implement fixed-amount tax cuts in June, at a time when its approval rating is sluggish.
   The planned meeting will be the third such tripartite gathering, after ones in March and November last year. The Japanese Trade Union Confederation, or Rengo, the umbrella body of labor unions nationwide, plans to seek a wage hike of at least 5 pct in the upcoming shunto.
   "Under the cooperation between the public and private sectors, we'll make sure to create this summer a situation in which wages are raised and disposable incomes grow," Kishida told Wednesday's liaison meeting between the government and the ruling bloc.