The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare revealed in January that about 400 employees worked overtime for more than 80 hours a month, which is a guideline for the "death line from overwork."
This was revealed by Mr. Yamada, Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, at the House of Representatives Welfare and Labor Committee held on the 12th.
According to this, there were 398 employees of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare who worked overtime for more than 80 hours a month, which is the guideline for the "death line from overwork" in January.
Specifically, 221 people had "80 hours or more and less than 100 hours" of overtime work per month, 149 people had "100 hours or more and less than 150 hours", and 28 people had "150 hours or more". was.
The longest-serving employee said that he had 226 hours of overtime.
Regarding the long working hours of national government employees, the average number of hours that the staff of the Cabinet Secretariat's "Coronavirus Infectious Diseases Control Promotion Office" was in the office in January other than regular working hours was about 124 hours. It has been revealed that the longest staff member was 391 hours.