overtime

PARIS: A French baker was fined for working ‘round the clock to keep his bakery open seven days’ in violation of labour rules. In France, everyone is required to take a day off per week. Even if you run your own business. That lesson was…

TOKYO: Japan's public broadcaster apologised Friday to the parents of a young Japanese reporter who died of heart failure after logging 159 hours of overtime in a month. NHK reporter Miwa Sado, 31, who had been covering political news in…

TOKYO: Workaholic Japan has unveiled its first-ever plan to limit overtime, but critics want to give it the boot, saying an "outrageous" 100-hour-a-month cap will do nothing to tackle karoshi, or death from overwork. Tokyo's bid to ease a…