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2018/06/18
Two-Day Weekends, Labor Shortages, and Foreign Workers: The Triple Challenge Facing the Construction Industry
Hello, everyone. This is Enta. Recently, at job sites managed by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, we’ve been seeing an increase in requests for estimates based on a full two-day weekend system. While a two-day weekend is certainly a good thing, it simply means the construction period gets longer. As a result, the craftsmen’s wages go down. After all, that’s four fewer working days, right? Presumably, from the government’s perspective, they’ll raise the unit labor cost…



