Increasing number of Japanese people dying from overwork

[Tennis]

http://www.japantoday.com/category/n...erable-workers

Japan is witnessing a record number of compensation claims related to death from overwork, or “karoshi”, a phenomenon previously associated with the long-suffering “salary man” that is increasingly afflicting young and female employees.

Labor demand, with 1.28 jobs per applicant, is the highest since 1991, which should help Prime Minister Shinzo Abe draw more people into the workforce to counter the effect of a shrinking population, but lax enforcement of labor laws means some businesses are simply squeezing more out of employees, sometimes with tragic consequences.

A suicide could qualify if it follows an individual’s working 160 hours or more of overtime in one month or more than 100 hours of overtime for three consecutive months.

Work-related suicides are up 45% in the past four years among those 29 and younger, and up 39% among women, labor ministry data show.

The problem has become more acute as Japan’s workforce has divided into two distinct categories - regular employees, and those on temporary or non-standard contracts, frequently women and younger people.

In 2015, non-regular employees made up 38% of the workforce, up from 20% in 1990, and 68% of them were women.

Lawyers and academic say unscrupulous employees operate a “bait-and-switch” policy, advertising a full-time position with reasonable working hours, but later offering the successful applicant a non-regular contract with longer hours, sometimes overnight or weekends, with no overtime pay.

Refusing overtime pay and break time are illegal, and the applicant could refuse the job, but activists say companies tell them they will be given regular contracts after six months or so.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/n...erable-workers

Wow this sucks.

I hope the government takes serious steps to address this.

[Revi]

Increasing number of Japanese people dying from overwork

Corrected title.

[s_bushido]

Corrected title.

Silly Revi. Everyone knows that men aren't people.

[Firatha]

Corrected title.

But men don't matter.

EDIT Aaaaaand I got beat to it.

[callipygoustp]

These threads are funny.

[the game]

How's come OP only posts positive things about his own country and negative things about every other country?

[Nefarious Tea]

Corrected title.

No, the title is correct. The article states that we already know Japanese men are dying from being overworked (either from immune suppression from stress/exhaustion or suicide).

The article is saying that now it's happening to women too.

Also, 1.28 jobs per applicant? Where the fuck do I sign up? It's a tenth of that in most of the rest of the world.

[Medusa Cascade]

How's come OP only posts positive things about his own country and negative things about every other country?

Because he's a t word

[Tennis]

How's come OP only posts positive things about his own country and negative things about every other country?

Not true as far as I can tell. He just posted a story about how racism was an issue in Canada.

[Xeones]

Japan is one of those countries you want to visit, but would never want to move to.

I don't even know how people can handle trying to work in Japan.

[Tennis]

Corrected title.

I can only fit so much into the title so it is what it is.

[Medusa Cascade]

Not true as far as I can tell. He just posted a story about how racism was an issue in Canada.

Split personality too

[the game]

I can only fit so much into the title so it is what it is.

people has the same amount of letters as women.

[Deleted]

So you're saying women aren't strong enough to work full time, or something? Why do you hate women so much, Tennisace?

[Medusa Cascade]

people has the same amount of letters as women.

Err...what

[the game]

Err...what

His title would still work if he replaced women with people.

[Mehrunes]

So you link an article that says that the growth in suicides in women was smaller than the overall growth (which means that it grew even more for men) and that says that 80% of overworking deaths are men, without mentioning the growth rates, yet still manage to make it all about women? Classic Tennisace.

I can only fit so much into the title so it is what it is.

Considering that replacing women with people would still leave you with 30 spare characters, the thing that is, is bullshit.

[Random010203]

Because he's a t word

tit? I'm confused.

[Kalis]

Not true as far as I can tell. He just posted a story about how racism was an issue in Canada.

Did you forget to log onto an alt account before posting?

[Random010203]

Classic Tennisace.

After the 100th post, I figured you guys would just start ignoring him. What does that say about the community lol?