賃上げ、７年ぶり２％割れ　「官製春闘」以前の水準に―連合集計

　連合は１３日、２０２０年春闘で傘下の労働組合が経営側から受けた回答の第１回集計結果を発表した。基本給を底上げするベースアップ（ベア）と定期昇給を合わせた引き上げ率は平均１．９１％（５８４１円）。政府による要請を受け賃上げが進んだ「官製春闘」以前の１３年（１．７４％）以来、７年ぶりに２％を下回った。
　１３日午前１０時時点で回答があった５７７組合を集計。このうち組合員３００人未満の中小労組は２．０５％で、２年ぶりに全体の平均を上回った。大手で賃上げの勢いが失速した一方、格差是正に向け中小の賃上げが進んだ。（2020/03/13-19:03）

Wage increases offered by Japanese companies to labor unions so far in "shunto" spring negotiations averaged 1.91 pct, failing to reach 2 pct for the first time in seven years, the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, or Rengo, reported Friday.
    Such a slow rise has not been seen since 1.74 pct in the 2013 shunto, held before the government started demanding firms actively increase wages under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Abenomics reflationary policy.
    Rengo's first tally of wage hike offers, reported by 577 unions, also showed that small and medium-sized companies with unions having 299 or fewer members proposed to raise wages by an average 2.05 pct, suggesting that the pay gap between large and small businesses shrank.
    At a press conference, Rengo President Rikio Kozu said the ongoing coronavirus crisis is believed to deal a severer blow to the global economy than the collapse of major U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers in 2008.
   Then he blamed leading automaker Toyota Motor Corp. for offering no pay-scale hike.