Prior to the month of overwork death prevention, long-time work, etc. nationwide simultaneous telephone consultation October 27th 11:23

Prior to the month of next month's death from overwork, telephone consultations from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare are being conducted all over the country in response to consultations from working people such as long working hours and unpaid wages.

Telephone consultations were held at eight locations nationwide, of which 30 labor standards inspectors responded at the Mita Labor Standards Inspection Office in Minato-ku, Tokyo.

Among them, a company employee who has been in the company for about 3 months has received a consultation saying that there is almost no holiday for one month and overtime is about 6 hours per day.

In response to this, the person in charge advised, "If you want to work with the company, you can use handwriting, so please have a record of your work and visit the nearest Labor Standards Inspection Office."

According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, there were 158 people who died from overwork or overworked suicide last year, the lowest in the past 10 years, but still at a high level.

Koji Yasuda, Director of the Tokyo Labor Bureau, said, “We have received many consultations such as overtime due to the shortage of labor. I was talking.

This telephone consultation is accepted until 5 pm on the 27th at the common telephone number “0120-794-713” nationwide.