JAPAN’s Dentsu Inc was fined just 500,000 yen (US$4,400) after a Tokyo court ruled it had made employees work overtime beyond legal limits – a case that followed a high profile death from overwork at the advertising giant.
Labour practices at Dentsu, renowned for its hard-driving work culture, came under scrutiny after employee Matsuri Takahashi committed suicide in 2015 at the age of 24. The government later ruled she died of “karoshi” – literally “death by overwork”.
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