Japan enacts law to introduce flexible working hours for teachers | Japan - Kyodo News Plus
Japan enacted a law Wednesday to introduce flexible working hours for
public school teachers and limit their monthly overtime to 45 hours,
after their tendency to overwork drew public attention by Kyodo News.
The revised law on special measures on teachers' salaries will give
local governments the option to have teachers work longer hours at busy
times of the academic year and take more days off in the summer when
students go on vacation, as long as they stick to the monthly overtime
cap.
Japan is notorious for its long working hours and teachers are no
exception. The average working hours of junior high school teachers in
the country stood at 56 hours per week in 2018, the longest among 48
nations and regions surveyed by the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development...
They called for hiring more teachers instead, claiming school staff
often cannot take a long summer break as they need to participate in
training or oversee students in extracurricular activities.
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Source: Kyodo News Plus
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