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2009年05月11日 08時56分36秒 | 新聞記事から
夏ボーナス初の2ケタ減 15.2% 車・機械など2割超 通信・電力はプラス本社中間集計

According to a preliminary data on the fiscal 2009 summer bonus compiled Sunday by The Nihon Keizai Shimbun,the amount of bonus per person on average, scheduled to be paid in the season,is 15.2% decrease compared with that of a year ago. It is the first two-digit decrease since 1977,from which comparable data are available.

In the manufacturing sector, all the industries see their payments declining from the previous year's ones. Espacially, in export-dependent inustries like the automobile and machinery ones,the rates of their decrease of the payment is all more than 20%.

Meanwhile,some companies in the telecommunications and electricity power industries increase their payments of bonus to their employees.