China News Service, December 8th. According to Kyodo News, a questionnaire survey recently revealed that 20 national university legal persons in Japan are in arrears of overtime wages for teachers in affiliated schools. According to known information, the amount of arrears has reached approximately 870 million days. Yuan (approximately RMB 48.78 million).

Data map: In Saitama Prefecture, Japan, a local private middle school entrance exam. Due to the epidemic, partitions were set up in the exam room and classrooms to maintain social distancing.

  According to the report, in November, Kyodo News Agency of Japan conducted a questionnaire survey for all national university legal entities that operate affiliated elementary, middle and high schools, kindergartens, and special education schools.

The results show that 20 of the 56 Japanese national university legal entities that operate affiliated schools have not paid overtime wages to teachers of affiliated schools.

Among them, 18 have received rectification suggestions from the Japan Labor Standards Inspection Agency.

  According to reports, the total amount of overtime pay arrears by the 14 legal persons who disclosed the details reached approximately 869.9 million yen (approximately RMB 48.77 million).

If you add universities that are calculating arrears and have not disclosed the amount in the questionnaire, the total is expected to continue to increase.

  In addition, on the one hand, some legal persons have been in arrears with overtime for a long time. On the other hand, they took the rectification suggestions of the Supervision Office as an opportunity to only regard the arrears of several years calculated based on the residual records as the "unpaid part."

According to the report, the amount disclosed this time is likely to be only the "tip of the iceberg" of the total arrears so far.

  According to reports, before the incorporation of the National University of Japan in 2004, the teachers of its affiliated schools did not receive overtime pay.

After the incorporation, national universities must pay overtime wages in accordance with the Labor Standards Law, but they may still use the original wage system.

Some legal persons may acquiesce in this illegal state.

  Of the 20 legal persons, 9 out of the reasons for not paying overtime wages stated that after the incorporation, they mistakenly believed that they were still in accordance with the previous salary system.

Six companies stated that they knew to follow the Labor Standards Law, but they “have failed to accurately grasp the working hours of teachers”.