Japan: A judge has ruled that the family of a Toyota Motor Corp employee who died after working 106 overtime hours in a month is entitled to compensation for a work-related death.
The worker passed out and died of an irregular heartbeat during a shift. "[He] worked for extremely long hours and the relationship between his work and death is strong," Judge Toshiro Tamiya is quoted as saying.
Overwork is a major issue in Japan with most workers only taking half of their annual holidays. Toyota says it will discuss the ruling with relevant agencies and take steps to better manage the health of its employees.
Dying after a pitifull 72hrs online playing Warcraft and now only 106 hrs overtime?
How Id love to see any of them attempt 9 days of solid AOK playing or taking my old 12hrs a day shifts at IBM with 3 hrs travelling each way. Thats an 18hrs day, 6 days a week ... cus I wanted the money.
Though in saying that, maybe thats the reason Im in bad health now ... but hey ... I aint dead ... but in IBM I saw a few people, ok 2, drop and have fits due to drug misuse.
Maybe I should sue previous employers for my greed/wants/motivation.
I remember starting a shift at 10pm one night then covering the next full days shift as well and then doing my own shift then having a good booze up and THEN getting to sleep, fair enough I took a day off to recover, but I know I aint superhuman ... so what gives? hearts?
I did 22 hr a day for 7 weeks once (and ended up in the hospital from exhaustion. When I woke up 3 days later the Doctor asked me if I had been doing drugs. I told him, "no, I didn't have time", nurse thought it was funny. ) Ok. I can see his point in dying. Pay the family.
I know publicans who get up at 9am, clean, open up and work till 11, 12, 1am depending, 7 days a week and havent had a day off in years. But then again they spend a lot of the day reading the paper and not stressed out with deadlines and the like
Not trying to be an ass or anything but all you math genius' are assuming that Japan has a standard 8 hour work day :p maybe their standard is 19, lol.
Or maybe they don't go by the standard at all and everybody just work ## hours a day because they don't want to look DISHONORABLE. We all know what happens when you're made to look dishonorable in japan... stabby stab stab. Like how people only take half their annual holidays.
I worked 18 hour days for just shy of 8 months. There were a couple of times that I pulled 48 hours straight and would get about four hours of sleep and I'd be right back to an 18 hour day. Not to mention the convoys, patrols gaurd shifts and communication watches that I had to pull during the day on top of sleeping in a hole in the ground. It was exuasting at first but the over all point that i am trying to make is that eventually your body will get used to and adapt to anything that you can throw at it. It actually took me quite a few number of weeks when I got back home to be able to sleep for more than a few hours at a time.
of a number of paramedics dying after doing shedloads of overtime and using caffeine to keep awake during the shifts. Problem is that this completely knocks out their salt balance, and they promptly have palpitations because the heart is unable to be effectively in an environment with too much (or too little) of certain salts.
Overtime in Japan is not really optional. It's expected. And you're expected not to whine about it, even if it causes you poor health. You guys are looking at it from a US perspective -- but in his case, even in poor health he might've been fired if he wasn't willing to put in that extra work.
