Toyota Asks Japanese Workers to Shift Into unprecedented Overtime
09-10-15, 02:37 AM
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Toyota Asks Japanese Workers to Shift Into unprecedented Overtime
TOKYO— Toyota Motor Corp. is asking its plant workers in Japan for an “unprecedented level” of overtime and holiday shifts for six months starting in October, the latest sign of a labor shortage hitting manufacturers in Japan.
Toyota needs these extra hours to smoothly launch the redesigned Prius gas-electric hybrid, which Toyota unveiled in the U.S. on Tuesday, and to prepare for Japan’s high season of auto sales, an internal document briefing on a recent union-management discussion showed.
Toyota needs these extra hours to smoothly launch the redesigned Prius gas-electric hybrid, which Toyota unveiled in the U.S. on Tuesday, and to prepare for Japan’s high season of auto sales, an internal document briefing on a recent union-management discussion showed.
Seems like a lot of Prii will be built for the holiday season in Japan.
09-18-15, 03:33 AM
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/toyota-a...ime-1441801868
Seems like a lot of Prii will be built for the holiday season in Japan.
Seems like a lot of Prii will be built for the holiday season in Japan.
09-18-15, 08:41 AM
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09-18-15, 11:09 AM
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Overworking your employes is also one sure fire way to drop quality and efficiency of production. Overtime or not, people who are tired and hungry after working many hours are obviously not going to be at their best...and simply paying them time-and-a half (like U.S. laws require....not sure about Japan) is not going to change that. In addition, the more hours one spends in that type of environment each day, doing the same thing over and over again for hours, the more chance of orthopedic repetitive-motion injuries to bones, muscles, tendons/ligaments, etc..... which has been a problem in the auto and other assembly-plant industries for many years. (similar to carpal-tunnel injuries using computer mouses)
09-18-15, 11:34 AM
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Overworking your employes is also one sure fire way to drop quality and efficiency of production. Overtime or not, people who are tired and hungry after working many hours are obviously not going to be at their best...and simply paying them time-and-a half (like U.S. laws require....not sure about Japan) is not going to change that. In addition, the more hours one spends in that type of environment each day, doing the same thing over and over again for hours, the more chance of orthopedic repetitive-motion injuries to bones, muscles, tendons/ligaments, etc..... which has been a problem in the auto and other assembly-plant industries for many years. (similar to carpal-tunnel injuries using computer mouses)
I immediately though the same thing.
09-18-15, 04:43 PM
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09-18-15, 11:58 PM
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If they are increasing hours of non full time staff then that is possible. But, full time workers cannot be asked to work extra in a systematic fashion. And it does not matter how much the Unions allow it, the labor laws are clear. I have to file forms every year stating how many hours overtime my employees have worked and if it is too much we get audited. Legally you can only assign 40 hours a week to employees and a company as big as Toyota will obviously follow the law.
Not time and a half, up until 10pm it is 125% and after that it is 135% until 6am. I also agree with your first statement.
Overworking your employees is also one sure fire way to drop quality and efficiency of production. Overtime or not, people who are tired and hungry after working many hours are obviously not going to be at their best...and simply paying them time-and-a half (like U.S. laws require....not sure about Japan) is not going to change that. In addition, the more hours one spends in that type of environment each day, doing the same thing over and over again for hours, the more chance of orthopedic repetitive-motion injuries to bones, muscles, tendons/ligaments, etc..... which has been a problem in the auto and other assembly-plant industries for many years. (similar to carpal-tunnel injuries using computer mouses)
09-20-15, 12:39 AM
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40 hours is considered full time. It is not that a company can't ask an employee to work over time, it is just that they can't do it the way the article is stating, ie "negotiating how many hours a day over time they will have the employees do". Over 60 hours is certainly not uncommon here either. The difference is if the company awards that over time or not. A company like Toyota with unions etc, will definitely declare all over time done by workers.
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