Japanese local governments are trying to make up for their business losses by cutting salaries for all city hall employees


(0)A waste of 400 million yen due to a design mistake overflowing with sewage in the sewerage system, reducing the salary of “all city employees”
to fill the hole…City Council passed
1215th, 2009 Delivery 13247 DOL

(1)A revised ordinance to reduce the salary of all employees was approved by the city council on the 15th to fill a part of the 400 million yen cost incurred by the design mistake
in the sewage project in Hitachi Ota, Ibaraki Prefecture From January next year to March 2024, the monthly salary and term
end of work allowance will be reduced by 1 to 2
for special employees, including the mayor It is unusual for the All-Japan Federation of Local Government Workers to pay for the expenses incurred by mistake by all employees

(2)According to the city, sewage overflowed from manholes in April because of a miscalculation of the sewage throughput when ordering sewage works for a housing complex were ordered In June, the cost of re-examining or repairing the design by the miss found to be the same in the land under construction of the city amounted to about 400 million yen
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(3)The city decided to pay part of the total amount with about
560 employees, such as not being able to gain citizens’ understanding

(4)About 60 million yen will be paid by the revision of the ordinance, and about 5.8 million yen will be paid by special staff or staff members. The city council will reduce the number of 17 council members by 2 on the 15th

(5)Mayor Tatsuo Miyada said, “I wonder if the council understood the purpose of the ordinance and took responsibility for explaining it to the citizens.”

Sewage overflows in manholes due to a mistake in calculating sewage throughput during a sewage project in Hitachi-Ota, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
Since then, the same mistake has been found in other businesses, and the total loss has reached 400 million yen
The city council approved an ordinance to cut the salary of all city hall employees, saying that public criticism cannot be avoided if they cover it with taxes
From January next year, the mayor and high-level salary will be reduced by 1 to 2 general employees for 1 year and 3 months
The salary of city council members was also cut by two, but the amount that can be covered by this is about 68.35 million yen
In an unprecedented situation, Internet comments criticize the joint responsibility
Controversy is brewing over whether the responsibility is the city hall or the business operator

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