Black company is being spread widely

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We often hear the word, ‘black company’ on the news and web site. Black company is defined as follows;

Black company is a company that force workers to work under inferior environment. The company that we can’t recommend you to apply and or enter to in a broad sense.

・Forcing workers to work in an environment that intentionally violates the labor law or the possibility under violation of it(gray zone).

・Forcing worker to work under violation of variety law regarding business activities, or too much over work, not considering worker’s health, or refusing the worker’s rights to get insurance if something bad happened to them while working.

・Forcing workers to take an imposing and irrational burden far from real work by using power harassment that means violent enforcement as conventional way.

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Long time no see. How are you? You seem tired.

Yes. I slept a little last night since I worked overtime all night. I have taken overtime over 100 hours per month every month since I’ve entered my company.

Really? You work too much! is your company perhaps, a black company?

I have no idea. All of us workers in my company work until 10 p.m. every day and have much task to do in a day. We can’t go back home at a fixed time. Last week, I fell into the roadside due to dizziness and got carried into the hospital. Nevertheless, they forced me to come back company and work all night after that.

It must be a black company. Did you consult the Labor Standards Inspection Office?

No, I didn’t. Isn’t it a waste of time?

You should report it. Once you report it to the office, they start looking into the situation. In other words, it won’t do anything unless you report it. It’s illegal if the company force you to work overtime over 45 hours a month. The maximum overtime is 80 hours a month even if the company force you to work longer overtime with a special contract. So, you must report it! That causes the number of black company to increase since nobody complains. To withstand illegal work is not good for other workers too.

Wow. I didn’t know that. By the way, why don’t we go to a restaurant and eat steak? I have wanted to eat steak at a restaurant serving delicious food since it opened near the station.

Well. I want to go there, but I don’t have enough money since I used too much money this month.

It’s rare for you. You used to save money when you were at university. Have you become a waste consumer?

No. I went to Lego land last week, I pushed the button to Tokyo accidentally when I bought the　Bullet Train ticket instead of Nagoya since I’d never gone to Nagoya for few years and often go to Tokyo on business. That’s why.

Did you ask refund to the person in charge at the station?

No, I didn’t do it. I thought I couldn’t have it even if I asked.

You were supposed to do it.

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