Japan Mulls Resubmitting Legislation to Raise Retirement Age of Civil Servants
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government will consider resubmitting legislation to raise the retirement age for civil servants, its top spokesman said on Wednesday, after public backlash prompted the withdrawal of draft legislation.
During the parliamentary session that ended on Wednesday, the government abandoned its push to enact legislation that would raise prosecutors’ retirement age to 65 from 63, and let the cabinet defer retirement of senior prosecutors for a further three years. Critics and others argued it would threaten judicial independence.
The government would aim to resubmit legislation as early as during the next parliamentary session – the start of which has yet to be decided – but it would consider not having it apply to prosecutors, the Nikkei business daily said. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the government would want civil servants with abundant knowledge and experience to keep working “to address properly administrative issues that have become complex and advanced.”
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