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A labor reform law came into force on Monday, setting a legal cap on long work hours to change Japan's notorious overwork culture blamed for causing sickness and deaths. The cap, which only targets major companies for now, is one of the three pillars of ...
Subaru death-from-overwork probe finds 3,400 staff were not paid overtime for two years
Subaru Corp. on Friday said it did not pay overtime wages over a two-year period to some 3,400 employees who underreported their hours, a revelation that surfaced in an internal probe following the 2016 suicide of an overworked employee. The automaker, known for its Legacy ...
Mindfulness in times of distraction
Mindfulness coach Junya Ogino believes that if leaders learned more about mindfulness and meditation, their employees would also reap the benefits.
Educators at schools nationwide work more than 11 hours per day on average while senior school staff were found to have worked even longer.
Abe's work-style reforms give Japan's employers the green light to demand unpaid and unsafe overtime
New law caps overtime at unhealthy levels and sets up a system that will legitimize the principle of working for nothing.
Labor reform law nudges corporate Japan to rethink working styles
Working late, falling asleep on trains due to exhaustion and getting drunk to release tension from work might still be the typical image of the "salaryman." This country is notorious for a culture of overwork. Employees who stay late are still praised for hard work ...
Diet enacts key labor reform that opposition slams as 'karōshi promotion' bill
The bill ushers in a legally binding overtime cap and exempts skilled white-collar employees from work-time regulations.
Efforts to combat the overwork of corporate employees must not end with the introduction of a few new regulations.
Second jobs, once rare in Japan, are reshaping attitudes about work
Kazuhiro Hasegawa has been driving a taxi in Tokyo for three years. It's a job he enjoys, despite 18-hour shifts. But recently, he said, it has not been enough to make ends meet. The ¥4.5 million to ¥4.8 million a year he makes from his primary ...
Japan's ruling bloc pushes labor bill through the Lower House amid worries over karōshi
The government says the comprehensive legal package will represent the biggest shake-up of labor laws in Japan’s postwar history, but some believe it could make problems worse.
Japan sets goals for companies to prevent deaths from overwork
Workers will benefit from a guaranteed interval between each day’s work and the next, but the plan did not specify how long the break must be.
Tokyo considers extending Diet session until late June or early July to pass labor and casino bills
The government and the ruling bloc are considering extending the current Diet session to the end of June or early July to secure the passage of a bill on labor reform and another on casinos, lawmakers from the ruling parties said Tuesday. They also decided ...
