TOKYO — Leading Japanese convenience store operator Seven-Eleven Japan Co is set to pay overtime to some 500 managers of directly run stores from March, company officials said Friday. The decision came after Tokyo District Court late last month ordered McDonald's Holdings Co to pay about 7.5 million yen to a McDonald's shop manager who sought the firm's payment of unpaid overtime.

Seven-Eleven Japan, a unit of Seven & i Holdings Co, currently does not pay overtime to managers of directly operated outlets because they are regarded to be part of management. Store managers of Seven-Eleven Japan work about 45 hours in overtime on average a month.

Among other major Japanese convenience store operators, Lawson Inc and FamilyMart Co have already started to pay overtime to their shop managers.

(JCN)

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meiwaku (Feb 9 2008 - 08:46)	Rate \| Report

Oh. These companies will pay for the time being but then they will slowly weed out the ones who complained about not getting overtime pay and be right back to where they were. Corporate profit overrules all else. They will simply find managers who will work overtime for no pay and get rid of the others for some other performance based reason. That is how big Japanese companies work.

Wow
Peaceful_Man (Feb 9 2008 - 09:39)	Rate \| Report

Next thing you know Eikaiwa will be paying preparation time to teachers!

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Zen_Builder (Feb 9 2008 - 12:20)	Rate \| Report

Old trick of companies for decades(globally).
Call someone a manager(minus the perks) to avoid paying overtime.

What matters is what is written on the payroll not the actual work/duties done.

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paolo27th (Feb 9 2008 - 15:16)	Rate \| Report

my old company tried to do the same with me -　and few others. Promoted us to supervisors but left us doing the exact same job. The trick didn't work tho when we refused to give up on hourly pay. So bit by bit we were bullied out and the few ones left at the end were made redundant（i　managed　to　hold　on　until　i　eventually　moved　to　japan）.
so now u know what's going on when u walk in a shop and everyone around　seems to be a manager.

Seven-Eleven to pay overtime to managers
WMD (Feb 9 2008 - 22:33)	Rate \| Report

how nice of them.

Another scam is to make them.....
Simon (Feb 10 2008 - 13:59)	Rate \| Report

....self employed contractors so that the company has no liability other than paying a monthly sum.

Seven-Eleven to pay overtime to managers
timekiller (Feb 11 2008 - 02:05)	Rate \| Report

No good deed goes unpunished!

Simon says:
sal_paradise (Feb 11 2008 - 12:56)	Rate \| Report

Another scam is to make them.....

....self employed contractors so that the company has no liability other than paying a monthly sum.

Don`t worry, GABA will get their comeuppance one of these days. This ruling in the McDonald`s case sets a nice precedent that other companies-be they convenience store chains or rip-off English school chains-will have to start paying careful attention to.

Small fish here.
thepossum (Feb 12 2008 - 14:07)	Rate \| Report

What about the big hitters in Japan ? Toshiba, Hitachi, Toyota ? Seems that it's these companies that really benefit from the free overtime thrust upon their working stiffs ! No way in hell any of these could be competitive if they had to pay the hundreds of hours of overtime a month.

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