中小賃上げ、続く高水準　「価格転嫁」定着がカギ―連合集計

　連合は１８日、２０２４年春闘で、組合員数３００人未満の中小組合の賃上げ率（加重平均）が４．７５％（月額１万２１７０円）になったとの４回目の集計結果を発表した。１回目の４．４２％から高水準を保ち、賃上げが小規模事業者にも及んでいることが裏付けられた。この流れを維持するには、人件費を含めたコスト上昇分を価格に転嫁する慣習の定着がカギとなる。
　賃上げ率は基本給を底上げするベースアップ（ベア）と定期昇給の合計。大手を含む全体では５．２０％（月額１万５７８７円）と３３年ぶりの水準だ。
　記者会見した芳野友子会長は上昇を続ける中小の賃上げ率について、「心強く感じている」と述べ、価格転嫁の取り組みも「少しずつ前進している」と評価した。（2024/04/18-19:58）

Japanese companies with labor unions of under 300 members have agreed to raise monthly pay by 4.75 pct on weighted average in this year's "shunto" spring wage talks, the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, or Rengo, said in a survey report on Thursday.
   The survey, the fourth of its kind for 2024 shunto, showed that pay hikes are steadily spreading to small firms from larger companies. The first survey showed a 4.42 pct rise. The weighted average of wage hikes at all firms, including large companies, came to a 33-year high of 5.20 pct.
   Rengo President Tomoko Yoshino told a press conference that she feels encouraged by continued wage increases at small firms.
   Efforts by small firms to pass on higher labor and other costs to clients are "gradually making progress," she said. Progress in such efforts is considered essential to continued pay hikes at small firms.
   "There previously was a strong sense that (labor costs) were a matter to be dealt internally by companies, but that mood has started to change," Yasuhisa Hirohama, chairman of can parts maker Hirohama Corp., said, noting that an increasing number of firms in the industry are passing on the costs of wage hikes to clients.