Summary of the FY2024 Draft Budget, Organization and the Number of Officials

    The budget, organization and the number of officials at the JFTC are outlined in the final draft budget for FY2024 as follows.

    1. Budget: Total amount of 12,188 million yen, with an increase of 699 million yen from the previous fiscal year

    2. New organization and increase in the number of officials

                New organization

•                 ● Deputy Secretary General for Ensuring Fair Transaction

•                 ● Office of Ensuring Fair Transactions Involving Freelance Contractors

•                 ● Senior Planning Officer for Human Resources Strategy in the Personnel Division
  
  

                Increase in the number of officials (breakdown of 16 additional officials)

•                 ● For strengthening our efforts to improve transactions in accordance with the enforcement of the Act on Improvement
  
                       of Transactions between Freelancers and Undertakings (Freelance Act)…12 officials

•                 ● For reinforcing the operation of competition policy…4 officials

                        *Number of total officials: 927 (As of March 31, 2024)

This draft budget was approved in the Diet (parliament) on March 28, 2024.