Japan’s government is worried that a sharp increase in the number of part-time workers will feed into weaker growth in productivity in future and it has proposed a package of labour reforms in response. Unfortunately, the proposals fail to address the distortions in the tax and legal systems that have driven growth of part-time positions.
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