Report: Mazda to pay $770k to parents of overworked employee who committed suicide
 

<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/sedans/" rel="tag">Sedan</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/etc/" rel="tag">Etc.</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/japan/" rel="tag">Japan</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/mazda/" rel="tag">Mazda</a></p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1361520/Parents-Mazda-worker-job-pushed-suicide-win-474-000-damages.html?ito=feeds-newsxml"><img alt="Mazda wing logo" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2011/03/mazda-wing-logo.jpg" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; margin: 4px; float: right;" /></a>The parents of a <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/make/mazda/">Mazda</a> worker who killed himself in 2007 have reached a second settlement with the company worth $770,000. The latest settlement brings the parents' total to just over $1.3 million from Mazda.<br />
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According to <em>The Daily Mail</em>, the auto company was found liable in the worker's death because he killed himself after being chronically overworked. According to the parents' suit, the employee was ridiculed publicly by his managers for, among other accusations taking "needless" overtime.<br />
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Mazda paid the young man's parents a separate condolence settlement in 2009. Work-related suicide is becoming a real problem in Japan, where the culture favors a workaholic mentality. In addition, many chronic overworkers suffer stress-related heart attacks and strokes.<br />
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These sorts of deaths have become common enough that the Japanese have coined a term, "karoshi," which means "exhaustion death" to describe the phenomenon. Courts have ruled that the employer can be held liable in karoshi cases, as has apparently happened with Mazda.<br />
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[Source: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1361520/Parents-Mazda-worker-job-pushed-suicide-win-474-000-damages.html?ito=feeds-newsxml">The Daily Mail</a>]<p style="padding:5px;backgr ound:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/03/02/report-mazda-to-pay-770k-to-parents-of-overworked-employee-who/">Report: Mazda to pay $770k to parents of overworked employee who committed suicide</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.autoblog.com">Autoblo g</a> on Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:41:00 EST. Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1361520/Parents-Mazda-worker-job-pushed-suicide-win-474-000-damages.html?ito=feeds-newsxml>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/03/02/report-mazda-to-pay-770k-to-parents-of-overworked-employee-who/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19863905/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/03/02/report-mazda-to-pay-770k-to-parents-of-overworked-employee-who/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>

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