{"id":2168,"date":"2016-12-07T08:54:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T23:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2017-09-12T22:37:12","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T13:37:12","slug":"whats-in-the-first-death-from-overwork-prevention-white-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/ja\/2016\/12\/07\/whats-in-the-first-death-from-overwork-prevention-white-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s in the first Death from Overwork Prevention White Paper?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2169 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Overwork-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"overwork\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Overwork-66x66.jpg 66w, https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Overwork-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Overwork-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Overwork-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Overwork-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Overwork-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Overwork-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Overwork.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u25c6 <strong>After enactment, the first white paper<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Death from Overwork Prevention White Paper was first announced following 2014\u2019s Death from Overwork Countermeasure Promotion Act.<br \/>\nThis white paper researches and studies the state of long-term labor and death from overwork conditions by industry. It records 2015\u2019s death from overwork preventative initiatives and nongovernmental organization activities and, over its 280 pages, covers the state of and preventive measures regarding death from overwork and overwork suicide.<\/p>\n<p>\u25c6 <strong>What percentage of companies require \u201cover 80 hours of overtime\u201d?<\/strong><br \/>\nAccording to a survey of businesses, the number of businesses responding that overtime exceeded 80 hours in a month\u2014considered the threshold for the threat of death by overwork\u2014for regular employees in the one month out of the year with the most overtime was 22.7%.<br \/>\nLooking at a breakdown by industry, the telecommunications industry had the highest percentage of affirmative responses at 44.4%, followed by \u201cacademic research and specialized\/technical services\u201d (40.5%) and \u201ccouriers and mail services\u201d (38.4%).<br \/>\nAlso, frequently-cited reasons for overtime included \u201clarge volume of work,\u201d \u201cpersonnel shortage,\u201d \u201cextreme fluctuations in business,\u201d and \u201ca need to respond to irregular requests from our clients.\u201d<br \/>\nIn a survey of employees regarding \u201cdegree of accumulated fatigue and stress conditions by length of overtime period,\u201d many respondents judged that the longer the overtime lasted, the greater the accumulated fatigue and stress, with 36.9% of employees reporting high stress levels.<\/p>\n<p>\u25c6 <strong>A need for publicity and public awareness to understand present conditions<\/strong><br \/>\nChapter 3 of the white paper reported the status of the implementation of measures to prevent overwork.<br \/>\nThe chapter reported on the implementation of posters, pamphlets &amp; leaflets, newspaper articles, web advertisements, publicity and public awareness campaigns, the analysis of cases of acknowledged work-related injuries, and the establishment of consultation systems.<br \/>\nThe Death from Overwork Prevention White Paper is also available to download via the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare\u2019s homepage.<\/p>\n<p>(http:\/\/www.mhlw.go.jp\/stf\/seisakunitsuite\/bunya\/0000138529.html)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u25c6 After enactment, t  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-2168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tokyo-hr-headlines-ja","tag-overwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2168"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2173,"href":"https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions\/2173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}