Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Japanese restaurant worker 'dies from overworking'

The 24-year-old died of heart failure in his sleep after working an average of 14 hours a day for a four-month period at the Nihonkai Shoya chain. Motoyasu Fukiage worked more than 112 hours of overtime a month for the four- month period of his employment at the restaurant, in addition to his regular 40 hours a week – making a total of around 272 hours a month. A court in Kyoto ordered the restaurant chain and four of its senior executives to make a payment of £607,000 (78.63 million yen) to the victim's parents in damages.

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