In the second instance of a trial in which a woman who was an employee of the self-governing union Yamanashi Prefecture headquarters complained that she was repeatedly subjected to power harassment during her tenure by her boss, who was the top of the organization, the Tokyo High Court ruled, "Socially recognized. There was an act of power harassment that exceeded the limit." Following the first trial, the former boss was ordered to pay compensation of 220,000 yen.
A woman who worked at the Yamanashi Prefectural Headquarters, a labor union made up of local government officials, was the chairman of the central executive committee at the top of the prefectural headquarters from 2018 to the following year. He repeatedly received power harassment acts such as being yelled at, claiming that he suffered from depression, and demanded compensation of about 1.1 million yen from his former boss.
In September last year, the Kofu District Court in the first trial partially accepted the woman's complaint and ordered her former boss to compensate, and both sides appealed.
In the judgment of the second trial on the 8th, presiding judge Tetsu Aizawa of the Tokyo High Court said that some of the acts that women claim to be power harassment were ``one-sidedly reprimanded for a relatively long period of time, and socially disrespectful. It is power harassment that goes beyond the permissible limits."
In addition, he was charged with the first trial, saying, ``As the chairman of the central executive committee, I was obliged to improve the working environment for those who worked at the prefectural headquarters, but I did not take appropriate measures against power harassment by other employees.'' Following this, I ordered my former boss to pay 220,000 yen.
Regarding the ruling, a former boss man said, "I would like to consider the future response after carefully checking the contents."