Important
Japan's measures to reduce long working hours, including naming companies for labor law violations
- Summary
- The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) page describes government efforts to cut long working hours, including guidance to companies and stricter supervision of workplaces suspected of excessive overtime. It explains that top executives of companies with illegal long hours or overwork-related deaths at multiple workplaces may be guided by prefectural Labour Bureau directors and have their company names published. It also links to the 2017 guideline on how employers should properly record working hours.
- Who is affected
- All employers in Japan, especially companies with long working hours, overtime or work-hour recording practices, and companies with multiple workplaces.
- What to do
- Review how working hours are recorded and managed against the 2017 MHLW guideline on proper recording of working hours (労働時間の適正な把握のために使用者が講ずべき措置に関するガイドライン). The page sets no specific deadline.
- Deadline
- Not stated in the original
- Original title (Japanese)
- 労働基準関係法令違反に係る公表事案
- Issued by
- Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW)
Summarized and translated by AI. The original Japanese text is authoritative. Sources: the websites of each Japanese government body (see the original link for each notice). Summarized and translated into English by AI by Japan Regulation Watch under the Public Data License (Version 1.0) of the Government of Japan. This is not an official translation and was not created by the government.
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