Let's expose corporate crime in English! (企業犯罪を、英語で暴露しましょう!)
This thread is to be used for sharing several bad information relating to any corporate crime, even if not obvious at first. (このスレッドは、企業犯罪に関するあらゆる情報を共有する ために使います。最初は、不確かな情報でも構いません。)
"Watami Co., Ltd.," formerly called as "Watami Food Service Co., Ltd.," killed a young Japanese lady by violation of Labor Standards Act. (ワタミ株式会社、かつてワタミフードサービス株式会社と呼ばれていた会社は、労働基準法違反で若い日本人女性を一人殺害しました。)
Ms. Mina MORI, who belonged to Watami, killed herself at the age of 26 in 2008, due to mental instability by excessive and illegal hard work. The bereaved family claimed workers' compensation around four years ago. As a result, the examiner of Workers' Accident Compensation Insurance officialy affirmed the petition, and the determination letter dated on Feb.14, 2012 says; "She could not afford holidays at all because her overtime work is more than approx. 140 hours per month. We suppose that the main cause of her suicide would overtax by excessive hard work."
A store manager and a careworker, both of who belonged to Watami, witness similar hard work and depose with evidences that Watami violate the Labor Standards Act, especially constantly unpaid overtime work. If any of them were true, Watami commit organized crime.
〜 News Sources (ニュースソース) 〜 All of the following sources are written in Japanese only.
>>1 In many Japanese companies,employees tend to be regarded as disposable and replaceable. This tendency seems to be stronger than ever. Also,it seems to me that few Japanese companies have long cherished and valued them as human assets,not human materials.
>>20 Exactly! Company executives or managers should realize that improving the working environment for their employees can motivate them, and can even lead to the sales increase. Of course I can understand it's important for any company to curb and cut down on expenses and/or to promote, boost more sales, but they should not treat their employees like disposable and replaceable materials. They should value more their staff members.