Dentsu Illegal overtime work in September Labor Standards Inspection Office recommends correction December 5, 11:58
A major advertising company, Dentsu, found that it had received a correction recommendation from the Labor Standards Inspection Office in September for allegedly causing employees to work illegally for long hours. Dentsu said that new employees committed suicide due to overwork and worked to correct long working hours.
According to Dentsu, Dentsu's Tokyo headquarters in Minato-ku, Tokyo last year said that it had violated the Labor Standards Law, etc. by causing four employees to work overtime for a long time exceeding the agreement with the labor union. It means that we received a correction recommendation from the Mita Labor Standards Inspection Office.
Among them, there were cases where overtime was over 156 hours, more than twice the upper limit, and there were 6 cases where no prior application was made to extend overtime hours.
Dentsu was newly hired by Matsuri Takahashi (24 years old at the time) who was guilty of violating the Labor Standards Act in a case where he committed suicide due to overwork.
In response to Mr. Takahashi's suicide, Dentsu announced an improvement plan for correcting long working hours and was planning to work on countermeasures, but during that time it received a correction recommendation for illegal long working hours again. Become.
Dentsu “Continue to Focus on Labor Environment Reform”
Dentsu said that it received a correction recommendation, “We have been working to prevent a recurrence, such as systematizing the application process for extending overtime hours, which had been done by hand until then. We will continue to focus on labor environment reform. ”