Hello, asking for a friend who works at a large multinational corporation.
The company in japan have several thousand people working here.
They operate like a traditional Japanese company. Give yearly increases with some transparency and even have made public they are raising wages these past two years heavily due to high inflation.
I have no clue what the average rise is but I assume 5-7% for normal performance and over 10% for very high achievers.
Long story short my friend was locally hired, but she belongs to a small team that is governed by apac not the japan’s office although she is hired locally with local rules and regulations.
The reason is that the business unit belongs to a new software purchased by acquisition many years ago so the software is still being developed independently for a few more years.
Then this friend has been told that she and her team are subjected to the apac budget and that the salary increases in APAC are only 1-3%.
To me that sounds like this company is bypassing some local rules, expectations and maybe laws. They open a team in japan without clearly understand the rules and the need of a special budget and a special way of thinking for Japan.
But I can’t advise her anything since I’m not and expert in the area.
Can someone here let me know what are her option to raise this issue internally?
I just thought about unionizing.
Edit: I asked her to ask her Japanese colleagues from the same team how much they got and it was less than her. But she mentioned that her colleague was furious to rage level over it. I told her to ask someone from another team but that’s harder info to get.
Also from my experience in Japan:
Univ graduate: 150-300k 10 years exp: 300-600k 20 years exp: 600-1200k 30 years exp: 1200-2400k And that’s the cap as you hit 50.
So that’s were I drew my conclusions about salaries % as usually salary doubles every 10 years. It has also been my personal experience and I also do know the salaries of all my co-workers and their age.
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