Court rejects naming firms where employees died due to overwork Japan’s supreme court has turned down an appeal by a civic group demanding the government disclose the names of companies whose employees have died of overwork. The group wanted the Osaka Labor Bureau to name the companies within its jurisdiction that paid compensation over employee deaths stemming from strokes, heart attacks and other causes determined to be related to work, Kyodo news said. But the court rejected the demand, backing a decision by the Osaka high court which found identifying the companies could harm their reputation. The court said that certifying brain and heart diseases for worker compensation “does not necessarily mean the companies were negligent or violated laws but could undermine their reputation in society,” the report said.
Posted on: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 22:42:52 +0000