A Supreme Court ruling overturning the Ministry of Employment and Labor's interpretation of the calculation method for the '12 hours per week' overtime work limit, which is allowed if agreed upon by ...

This paper analyzes how the recent work-style reform affects Japanese workers' time allocation. Specifically, we examine how and to what extent work hours have decreased in these years, and how much ...

It is doubtful that the government's proposed limit on overtime hours will serve its intended purpose of curbing the chronically long working hours of the nation's company workers, whose tragic ...

The second batch of wage-and-hour letters released during the second Trump administration addressed a joint employer scenario as well as firefighter emergency pay.

Nearly 1 in 4 companies have admitted that some employees do more than 80 hours of overwork per month, according to the nation's first white paper released Friday on karoshi, or death by overwork.

Project 2025 plans to turn the 40-hour workweek into a 160-hour work month so employers can avoid paying overtime by cutting an employee's hours later in the month if they worked extra hours near the ...