Japanese worker forced to return RM48k from salary to repay smoke breaks

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Japanese worker forced to return RM48k from salary to repay smoke breaks
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Due to the employee's 4,512 smoke breaks during the 14.5 years of working there, he has to pay 1.44 million yen (RM48,359.84) in salary to his workplace theSun theSundaily viral work smoking breaks penalty fees payment Japan

be honest...many working-class people take short breaks whenever work feels overwhelming. Some take snack breaks, and others smoke. Though many get away with it, this was not true for one Japanese man.reports that an employee of the Osaka Prefectural Government took 4,512 smoke breaks during his 14 and a half years of employment with them, for which he was ordered to return 1.44 million yen in salary. He also got a 10% pay reduction for six months.

He is accompanied by two other workers whose salary was reduced by 10% for frequently smoking while on the job.

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