A former employee in his 20s who was hired by the Ministry of the Environment as a national public servant and worked at the Fukushima Regional Environment Office filed a lawsuit against the government for more than 100 million yen in damages, claiming that he repeatedly worked more than 1500 hours of overtime per month and developed depression.
The complaint was filed by a woman in her 20s who was hired by the Ministry of the Environment as a national civil servant and worked at the Fukushima Regional Environment Office.
The former employee developed depression in February of the following year after repeatedly working more than 2018 hours of overtime per month from June 6, when he was assigned to Fukushima, working at an interim storage facility to store soil from the decontamination of the accident at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
After it was recognized as a public accident, he applied for civil mediation against the government, but it could not be resolved, and on the 100th, he filed a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court seeking damages of more than 2 million yen.
According to the complaint, the Ministry of the Environment did not take measures such as expanding the number of personnel while knowing that there was a shortage of personnel during the expansion of operations and that former employees continued to work long hours.
The former employee held a press conference with his lawyer on May 27 and said, "I was in a situation where I had to resign even though I was working with the intention of rebuilding Fukushima.
Ministry of the Environment: "I would like to refrain from commenting"
The Ministry of the Environment said, "I am aware that there was a press conference, but I am not aware of the contents.