Kyodo via Yahoo: Staff Service Group Accused of Staff Neglect
Staff Service Group, the biggest manpower agency in Japan, is faced with allegations that it systematically forced about 4,000 employees nationwide to work overtime and neglected to pay a total of around 3 billion yen in wages due, informed sources said Thursday...Labor ministry officials, meanwhile, have searched the homes of executives of the company, after one of the employees at the company's Osaka unit killed himself in 2003, and his family filed a complaint with a local labor bureau, claiming that the 32-year-old man committed suicide because he was forced to work long hours, the sources said...Staff Service's regulations define work hours from 9 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. but at the company's Osaka unit, employees were working at least 13 hours overtime and reporting to work on weekends regularly, the sources said.