”長時間労働が疑われる事業場に対する令和５年度の監督指導結果を公表します,” 25 July 2024

The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has compiled the results of supervisory guidance given by the Labour Standards Inspection Offices to workplaces suspected of working long hours in 2023, and has published them together with examples of supervisory guidance.

The supervisory guidance covers workplaces where the number of overtime and holiday working hours is thought to have exceeded 80 hours per month based on various types of information, and workplaces where claims for work-related accidents such as death by overwork due to long and excessive working hours have been filed.

Of the 26,117 targeted workplaces, 11,610 (44.5%) were found to be working illegal overtime, and guidance was provided to correct and improve the situation. Of these, 5,675 workplaces (48.9% of those with illegal overtime) were found to have actually worked more than 80 hours per month on overtime and holidays.

MHLW will continue to actively implement measures to correct long working hours and will provide focused supervisory guidance during the ‘Campaign to Eliminate Overwork’ in November....