He died before he could take him... "Amazing" compensation for a Japanese train driver who was a minute late

A train driver in Japan was paid an astonishing 45 cents in compensation for a one-minute delay in 2020, after the Okayama District Court ordered West Japan Railway Co. One million yen for the emotional upset caused by his salary deduction in 2021.

In June 2020, a train driver was reported to have waited for an empty train at the wrong platform, causing a two-minute delay.

Then West Japan Railway Co. deducted 85 yen (about 66 cents) from the driver's wages.

However, the company reduced the time to one minute after the Okayama Labor Standards Inspection Bureau participated and charged 45 cents instead.

The train driver then tried to file a lawsuit against West Japan Railways in March 2021, but was unsuccessful, according to the NextShark website.

He also died of an illness earlier this year in his fifties.

Later, Judge Hisanori Okono ruled on Tuesday that the train driver would be compensated posthumously after concluding that the man immediately realized his mistake and corrected it.

Okono stated that if an employee spends their working hours correcting an error related to a task, they still have to be paid for services rendered.

In March, the company revised its policy that any errors caused by train delays would constitute a deduction from fares, and the company added that it was planning to review before filing the lawsuit and "honestly accept the verdict".

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