Toyota Agrees To Fully Compensate Japanese Workers For Overtime

Toyota will boost overtime pay to their assembly line workers for their voluntary efforts to improve production quality, the company said Thursday, in the latest effort in Japan Inc. to quell growing criticism about a workaholic corporate culture.

The decision follows a court ruling that found a Toyota worker, who collapsed at a plant, had died of overwork, or "karoshi." Such rulings are surprisingly common in Japan and allow the family of the deceased to collect government compensation for work-related deaths.

Japanese tend to work long hours because many companies demand worker loyalty in exchange for relative job stability. Workers' putting in free overtime is so common here a widely recognized phrase describes the practice, "saabisu zangyo," or "service overtime." But public criticism about free overtime has been growing.

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carguy68 - 5/23/2008 12:46:00 PM

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f*$% toyota!! greedy mother fu#%@*#

Porschinator - 5/23/2008 1:12:19 PM

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LOL...gotta love Japanese gov't. If a worker in the US died at GM they would sue the hell out of the comp or GM having to shell out $$$$. Japan Gov't takes good care of its auto industry.

The work force in Japan are brainwashed from school to be LOYAL TO THE COMPANY! More you do for the company the more secure you will be. This goes way beyond Toyota. Well it is much better than being brainwashed into being a terrorist and hate the USA at least :-P

abcd - 5/23/2008 5:02:51 PM

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this isn`t only happening in japan . how many dollars earn peoples in china and other poor countries that work for US , western and japanese companies . and we get very cheap products made in china in every supermarket .

ChicaneShooter - 5/24/2008 5:59:23 AM

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yup. it happens EVERYWHERE.

today's world is the paradise the ROBBER BARON CAPITALISTS of yesteryear could only dream of.

the religious right and the GOPpys they seduced then gained control of, have helped create overpopulation in every country. this forces people to sell their labor at lower and lower prices, just to HAVE a job.

when the dollar ruled the planet, all americans benefited from foreign wage slaves. we got hooked by our print our way out of debt policies, but now furriners realize it's time americans feel the heat too. the pressures on the american working class are increasing with the distortions of the global economy, once working in OUR favor, now flipping and making us pay our ignored bills.

gird yourselves for the New Depression over the horizon.

simmonsdp - 5/24/2008 12:21:18 PM

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Yes,,,thats what they call modern day slavery...