A Survey Of "Overwork" Among Office Workers: Are You Willing To Work Overtime?

A few days ago, "the number of overworked deaths reached 600 thousand per year, and China became the first big country of overfatigue" was reported on the Internet.

Although the false news three years ago had already been rumor by the media, it is now reappearing and there is still a market for spreading.

600 thousand overworked death every year is a sensational false news. However, in recent years, the phenomenon of "overwork" in Chinese workplace can not be ignored.

1 miscommunication three years ago

After three years of helplessness

Some time ago, Tang Yue, who lived in Wuhan, Hubei, turned off her cell phone and slept at home on the morning of a working day. She protested to her company in the form of "strike".

In the company, Tang is responsible for the execution of commercial activities. She told the Beijing News Network reporter that "activity execution usually has to stay up one night in advance to arrange the venue. Important activities need to stay there for three days, and almost no food can be eaten on the day of activity."

The poplars living in Beijing have stopped working for the time being, and have chosen to go back to college for further studies.

In the first two years, he worked in the investment and Financing Department of a state-owned enterprise. He worked normally during the day, or went to various places to hold talks and meetings on business trips. He often drinks and entertain in the evenings.

"I may have three or four days of wine a week and a little bit of my back, even for a month."

Yang did not know whether he was working overtime, but he recalls that in the summer of 2013, in the first week of his first job, a chief engineer died suddenly during the non working hours. The first two weeks of the sudden death, the engineer was still on a business trip.

"This unit gave him a commemorative album, but sudden death occurred after returning home, and no industrial injury."

He said.

In 2013, the report of "600 thousand people died of overwork in China every year" appeared in public opinion, causing concern, but the news was immediately dismissed.

The actual situation is that a survey shows that the number of sudden cardiac death in China is about 600 thousand per year. After reports quoted by Chinese media and quoted by Korean media, it is reported that "every year 600 thousand people die from overwork".

3 years later, today, similar reports have gone crazy again on the Internet, which once again aroused heated debate among netizens.

"Why do we discuss it every year?" Wei Haozheng, vice president of Shanghai's talent service industry association, explained to the reporter. "Every year there is a typical case of karoshi. This problem has not changed in the past three years.

The core problem is that there is no way for our country to make an accurate definition of overwork in terms of medicine and law.

Wei Haozheng said.

How to incorporate work-related injuries?

Recently, around the discussion of "karoshi", some media said that the death of overworked should be included in the work-related injury as soon as possible.

According to the fourteenth provision of the industrial injury insurance Ordinance, workers suffering from occupational diseases should be identified as work-related injuries.

In this regard, Wei Haozheng told China News Network reporter, "we have very clear laws and regulations, there are very clear medical standards to identify occupational diseases, but karoshi is not accurately defined in medicine, so it is difficult to make a definition in terms of procedure, which leads to the fact that karoshi does not become a legal definition."

Yu Shaoxiang, an associate researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the media that karoshi is not the name of clinical medicine but belongs to the category of social medicine.

Yang Heqing, Dean of the school of labor economics, Capital University of Economics and Business, has also admitted that the research on the criterion of "karoshi" and the standard of medical diagnosis are still in the initial stage.

According to

"Article fifteenth stipulates that workers who died of sudden illness or died within 48 hours after working hours and jobs were regarded as work-related injuries.

"Karoshi can be a little closer to this rule. A small part of karoshi is consistent with this situation."

Wei Haozheng said that the vast majority of overworked deaths are caused by physical fatigue, which leads to a long process of illness.

At present, overwork death is included.

Under the background of less maneuverability, Wei Haozheng said that it was suggested that "within 48 hours" be removed, but he said, "this proposal is also flawed. Some people may have little relationship with their long illness, such as advanced cancer."

"The definition of karoshi can not be solved, and it is difficult to break through in legislation. That is why we have been discussing, but staying where it is."

Wei Haozheng concluded.

Zuo Xiangqi, a senior labor arbitrator, said, "the damage to body caused by overwork is not a standard. When your body is irreversibly damaged, it should be counted as work-related injury."

3 experts: voluntary overtime is difficult to get legal support

We should act according to our capability.

In the absence of medical and legal definition of karoshi, employees work overtime in the performance appraisal standard company, and how to protect their rights? Wei Haozheng, who has over 10 years of experience in the field of labor law and human resource management, said frankly, "safeguarding rights is difficult."

He said, "there are two main types of overtime in the law. One is the company's overtime, which is controlled, arranged and required. The second is that the employees apply for overtime work, and the company approves. The two are identified as working hours in the judicial process, and overtime is over eight hours."

However, some companies usually do not have a clear overtime application system. In this case, it is difficult for employees to support overtime if they want to claim overtime for more than eight hours.

Wei Haozheng explained, "first of all, the attendance of such companies is relatively loose, and there is no overtime record in the company attendance system and approval records.

Secondly, leaders will not agree to apply for overtime work to the leaders, so you want to take legal channels or protect their rights from other channels, it is very difficult to identify overtime.

Therefore, Wei Haozheng suggested that employees should have an assessment of their physical condition. He said, "we must consider things in the long run, and we can not ignore our bodies for short-term examinations, bonuses and promotions."

"When your body feels unable to stand and cannot eat, it is necessary to communicate with the company in time to see if we can relax the performance appraisal appropriately, and we must be courageous enough to express our opinions."

He said.

"The part that can not get compensation from industrial injury belongs to the scope of many commercial insurance claims. In addition, we should consider the balance of performance indicators, otherwise things will happen, whether it is work-related injuries or not, for enterprises, both brain drain and a lot of trouble."

Wei Haozheng said.

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