bikkle wrote:Unpaid overtime bill 8.1 billion yenOver 600 companies withheld a combined 8.1 billion yen in overtime payments to workers in the 18 months up until September, instead forcing them to work for nothing.
The average amount companies avoided paying was 13.28 million yen, while the average loss for each worker affected was 110,000 yen.
Ministry officials said that of the 134,623 companies it investigated in 2001, 16,059 were withholding overtime payments, meaning that about one in every 10 Japanese companies was ripping off its own workers.
Bad statistics again. The real conclusion is: "of the reported incidents that were properly followed up by the ministry, roughly 10% of those were found guilty of withholding overtime pay". Who knows what the real number are...
