……."The government wants to create a system in which companies don't have to pay for overtime -- it could accelerate deaths from overwork," he said.
Morioka added that the bill seemed to run counter to the spirit of a law passed last summer aimed at preventing deaths from long working hours, which garnered wide support across party lines. Details of the bill are being worked out now.
The new law, if passed, would initially affect just four percent of private-sector employees, or about 1.8 million people.
But Keidanren already wants to expand the programme by lowering the pay threshold.
"We need to think about relaxing the income requirement and applying it to a wider scope of workers," the business lobby's chief said last month.
While the popular image of Japanese salarymen toiling long hours for the company before taking the last train home is changing, many still spend far more hours in the office than counterparts in other modern economies.
A Japanese government study found that 16% of full-time workers took no paid holidays in 2013, while …
About 22.3 percent of Japanese employees work 50 hours or more each week on average, well above 12.7 percent in Britain, 11.3 percent in the United States, and 8.2 percent in France, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
A Japanese government study found that 16 percent of full-time workers took no paid holidays in 2013, while others took just half their allotted vacation on average.
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