Wage in kind

Japanese: 現物給与 - げんぶつきゅうよ（英語表記）wage in kind

Also called a truck system. Wages paid in goods other than money, securities equivalent to goods, or coupons. It was seen in the 19th century British mining industry, Japanese mines before World War II, and in many countries around the world, including Japan, during World War II, where in-kind payment was widely used as part of wages due to shortages of consumer goods. This method hindered wage earners' freedom to purchase consumer goods, often resulting in a de facto wage cut, and had other disadvantages, such as unfairly restricting workers to their workplaces, so its abolition became an important goal of the early labor movement. Governments around the world also put effort into regulating it from an early stage, and in Japan, the Factory Act of 1916 prohibited it in principle, and after World War II, Article 24, Paragraph 1 of the Labor Standards Act prohibited in principle in-kind payment except in cases stipulated by labor agreement. Currently, in Japan, in-kind payment is rarely used, but some people believe that many of the welfare facilities at companies and other places that are an important part of working conditions are a type of in-kind payment.

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Japanese:

トラック・システム truck systemともいう。貨幣以外の物品や物品に相当する証券，金券などで支払われる給与。 19世紀のイギリス鉱山業，第2次世界大戦前の日本の鉱山などでみられ，また第2次世界大戦中に日本を含め世界各国で消費物資不足のため，賃金の一部に対して現物支給が広く行われた。この方法は賃金労働者の自由な消費物資購入を阻害し，実質的賃金切下げになることが多かったこと，労働者を不当に職場に拘束するなどの弊害があり，その廃止は初期労働運動の重要な目標となった。各国政府も早くから規制に力を入れ，日本では 1916年実施の工場法でその原則禁止を定め，第2次世界大戦後は労働基準法 24条1項において，労働協約によって定める場合以外は原則として現物給与を禁止している。現在日本では現物給与はほとんど行われていないが，労働条件の重要な一部である企業などの福利施設の多くは，現物給与の一種であるとする見方もある。

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