It seems as if "karoshi", or "death from overwork" is still a fairly large problem... among government employees.....
Here is a little article from Kyodo news explaining the situation... ***************************** 2,000 national public servants work 80 or more hours overtime a month
Thursday 29th July, 12:32 AM JST TOKYO —
Over 2,000 national public servants are estimated to work 80 or more hours overtime a month, a level deemed as a key threshold in triggering death from overwork, a survey conducted by a labor union representing civil servants employed by the central government showed Wednesday. According to the 10,000-strong union of public servants who work in Kasumigaseki, Tokyo’s bureaucratic center, 6.3 percent of the 3,000 government officials surveyed said their monthly overtime hours averaged 80 or more. Union officials said the figure corresponds to over 2,000 bureaucrats working such long overtime overall, as a total of 34,000 people work at ministries and agencies in Kasumigaseki. Among those reporting 80 or more hours of overtime, around 22 percent said they ‘‘currently feel the danger of death from overwork’’ and around 36 percent said they had ‘‘felt the danger in the past.’‘ In the survey, conducted recently, average overtime stood at 32.8 hours per month, down 3.5 hours from the previous survey last year. Officials at the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare’s divisions related to labor policy were found to be working the longest overtime of 73.4 hours per month, up from 66.3 in the previous survey. A union official attributed the increase to ‘‘extra work on holidays, which grew in parallel to more top-down instructions to bureaucrats from the three top parliamentary officials’’ including health minister Akira Nagatsuma. © 2010 Kyodo News. All rights reserved. No reproduction or republication without written permission. <-- To hell with that.
Here is a little article from Kyodo news explaining the situation... ***************************** 2,000 national public servants work 80 or more hours overtime a month
Thursday 29th July, 12:32 AM JST TOKYO —
Over 2,000 national public servants are estimated to work 80 or more hours overtime a month, a level deemed as a key threshold in triggering death from overwork, a survey conducted by a labor union representing civil servants employed by the central government showed Wednesday. According to the 10,000-strong union of public servants who work in Kasumigaseki, Tokyo’s bureaucratic center, 6.3 percent of the 3,000 government officials surveyed said their monthly overtime hours averaged 80 or more. Union officials said the figure corresponds to over 2,000 bureaucrats working such long overtime overall, as a total of 34,000 people work at ministries and agencies in Kasumigaseki. Among those reporting 80 or more hours of overtime, around 22 percent said they ‘‘currently feel the danger of death from overwork’’ and around 36 percent said they had ‘‘felt the danger in the past.’‘ In the survey, conducted recently, average overtime stood at 32.8 hours per month, down 3.5 hours from the previous survey last year. Officials at the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare’s divisions related to labor policy were found to be working the longest overtime of 73.4 hours per month, up from 66.3 in the previous survey. A union official attributed the increase to ‘‘extra work on holidays, which grew in parallel to more top-down instructions to bureaucrats from the three top parliamentary officials’’ including health minister Akira Nagatsuma. © 2010 Kyodo News. All rights reserved. No reproduction or republication without written permission. <-- To hell with that.
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