Government’s reform initiative aims to reduce death from overwork. The Japanese government began formal discussions Wednesday on draft legislation that would limit overtime to an average of 60 hours a month throughout the calendar year. “Extended work hours are a structural problem, so it is necessary to reexamine corporate culture and business practices,” Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said at a meeting of his work reform committee. The session mostly focused on hearing opinions from members. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s work reform committee convenes a meeting Wednesday at his office in Tokyo (Nikkei) The government will present a draft proposal at the next meeting on Feb. 14 that would restrict overtime to 720 hours per worker per year. Those rules would allow a company to authorize up to 100 hours of overtime during one busy month. If the peak period spans two months, the average cap for that timeframe would fall...
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