Overwork on the rise as pandemic ups load on Japan's essential workers

Essential workers in Japan's health care and transportation sectors were increasingly required to work excessive hours during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a government study released Friday.Overall in the March and April period of the study, the percentage of people who worked for 80 or more hours per week fell, but in health care and transport, including postal and package delivery workers, it increased.Overwork among transport workers increased 0.23 percentage point from a year earlier to 2.01 percent in March, according to the latest white paper analyzing overwork-related death…READ FULL ARTICLE