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A Toyota Motor Corp employee died of overwork
TOKYO (Reuters) - A Toyota Motor Corp employee died of overwork after logging more than 106 hours of overtime in a month, a judge ruled Friday, reversing a ministry's earlier decision not to pay compensation to his widow.
The Toyota Labor Standards Inspection office, a local branch of Japan's labor ministry, refused to pay the widow the usual compensation for a spouse's work-related death, saying the man had only logged 45 hours of overtime in the month before he died, Japanese media reported. But the court ruled that the employee had worked far more than that, said Yomiuri Online, a Japanese news website. The Nagoya District Court in central Japan said the ruling overturned the labor ministry's decision. "We want to think of how to respond to this ruling by discussing it with relevant agencies," an official at the Toyota Labor Standards Inspection Office told Reuters. The employee, who was working at a Toyota factory in central Japan, died of irregular heartbeat in February 2002 after passing out in the factory around 4 a.m. "(The employee) worked for extremely long hours and the relationship between his work and death is strong," Yomiuri Online quoted Judge Toshiro Tamiya as saying. Overworking is a serious issue in Japan, where an average worker uses less than 50 percent of paid holidays, according to government data. In fiscal year 2005-2006, the labor ministry received 315 requests for compensation from the bereaved families of workers who died of strokes and other illnesses seen as work-related. Toyota said in a statement it would further improve the management of its employees' health. (Reporting by Yoko Kubota; Additional reporting by Chang-Ran Kim) http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/0...dd_overwork_dc I wonder if this can happen in adult where the person fucks to much :1orglaugh |
Your bold text is funny, but actually serious if you apply it to some of us who pull 12 to 14 hour or more shifts 6-7 days a week, blowing off holidays and everything else. Hell a vacation is not complete for some of us unless we can bring a wireless web enabled device of some sort and have connectivity.
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A country of workaholics ...
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thats alot of overtime, price to pay
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