(BC Bilten) Japanese suffer from overtime work, first court compensations for victims

59-year-old Japanese Jošio Kajo, ex workers of Mitsubishi, will get 1 million USD worth of compensation and apologize for medical problems caused by overtime work. While he was head of the development department in Nagasaki, Kajo was forced to work overtime and over the weekends. Due to chronic fatigue and stress, he was struck by infarct and he suffers from partial dementia.

Japanese companies expect from their employees to work overtime without any compensation for that. In the environment where conflicts are avoided, the cases of death from fatigue on working place usually stay unpunished because families do not want to press charges. This is one of the first cases of compensation paid by some company for the lost health.