Japanese teachers protest abusive working conditions

A study organized in 2018 by the OECD pointed out that the conditions of secondary school teachers are far from the average of developed countries. At the Japan, the profession requires 56 hours a week. Generally, in other places, the teacher meets the workload of 38 hours per week.

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Teachers hold protests

In a report on the case, the Japanese professor Yoshio Kudo said that work starts very early and that there is almost no time to finish, and it can last until midnight. As a result of the exercise, the man went through a “karoshi”, the death of excessive activity.

In addition to this report, there is the case of another high school teacher who died in 2007, aged 40, due to a cerebral hemorrhage. Little by little, cases like these become common among teachers, so this is precisely the reason for the protest. The investigation carried out by the newspaper

mainichi pointed out that, in the last ten years, about 63 teachers died because of excessive work.

This year, the Japanese government began researching the working conditions faced by teachers. In general, teachers show that they are increasingly reaching the limit of the workload and that the schedules have been fought through lawsuits.

Measures by the Japanese authorities

The case study made it possible for the country to start outsourcing the fulfillment of some activities that were previously the responsibility of the teacher. Keiko Nagaoka, Minister of Education in Japan, commented on the case:

“Our measures to reform teachers' working conditions are steadily progressing.”

She completed by stating that there are still teachers who are working long hours and concluded by saying that efforts to improve the profession need to be accelerated.

Experts in the country pointed out that the teacher has become a “handyman” and that they are overworked, in addition to being prevented by law from receiving overtime for what they do. There is a law that grants the professional about eight fixed overtime hours per month for the work done, but that's about it.

According to teachers, they force professionals to always do more for a fixed salary.

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