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Government employees in Japan face a pay cut if they leave work two minutes early!
Workers in businesses all over the world are bound by rigid work schedules, but a minute or two of tardiness is often overlooked. However, Japan recently announced a very harsh consequence of leaving office early.
According to sources, a number of workers from the Funabashi City Board of Education in Chiba Prefecture were disciplined with pay cuts for leaving the office two minutes early.
According to The Sankei News, management did not respond well to the fact that 316 early departures occurred between May 2019 and January 2021.
Many workers had written a false time in their cards in the 316 cases of early departures, according to the office.
The office evidently discovered that several workers had written a false time in their card in order to quit work early in the 316 cases of early departures.
One 59-year-old employee, an assistant section chief in the Lifelong Learning Department, was taking the lead in assisting other workers in leaving work early, according to the study. She was given a one-tenth pay reduction for three months as a penalty.
According to news, one woman was fired because she left work two minutes before her scheduled log-out time of 5:15 p.m. She was doing so in order to catch the 5:17 PM bus home.
