Restaurant Ordered To Pay Compensation After Waiter Dies From Overwork
The operator of a major Japanese restaurant chain, Nihonkai Shoya, and its top four managers were ordered Tuesday to pay about 78.6 Million Yen (nearly 0.86 Million USD) to the parents of an employee who died of overwork. The decision by the Kyoto District court was the first of its kind in Japan finding the employer responsible for the death of its employee through overwork or “Karoshi”.
Motoyasu Fukiage, who was 24 years old, worked at a Nihonkai Shoya outlet in Shiga Prefecture after joining the company in April 2007. He had an acute heart failure while sleeping at home in August that year. In December 2008, the Otsu labor standards inspection office ruled that Fukiage had died from physical strain imposed by overwork.
The parents of Fukiage had filed a damages suit of 100 million Yen (nearly 1.01 Million USD) against the operator Daisyo Corp – a Tokyo based listed firm - , its president, Tatsu Taira, and other top managers.
Presiding Judge Shinichi Oshima declared that Daisyo failed to take into account its employees’ working hours noting that it set salaries under the premise that employees would work 80 hours of overtime per month which is equivalent to the government criteria of determining death from “Karoshi”. The court found that Fukiage died of heart attack caused by the physical strain of standing for long hours during his duties after working an average of 112 hours of overtime for a period of 4 months. Japan has an infamous culture of long working hours, which regularly result in stress-related deaths and suicides.
After hearing the judgement, an emotional father of Fukiage told media that he does not need the money & instead wants his son back.
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HY ChanHan29 May 10 at 08 52 pm
Should punish that company, they should not allow their employee to do the overwork like this, 112 hours of overwork for 4 months it is very strong who can do?
Actually, i really pity his father, he said that he doesn't want the compensation at all but he wants his son back :(. Died Life cannot restore, Uncle.
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29 May 10 at 10 27 pm
Typical Japanese corporate work ethic. Working long hours doesn't mean you are more productive, although in this case he worked as a waiter and he was probably on the go all the time. Poor bastard, can't understand why he didn't leave the job if it was giving him so much stress. It's not like there is ever a shortage of jobs in the hospitality industry. In Japan quitting your job is not an easy thing to do, I should know I lived there for 14 years..
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restaurant trip compensation29 Aug 10 at 10 54 pmIts really sad. No one can pay for life. But his father should accept compensation, aslthough this can't take his son back but it will teach the accusers a lesson.
