Legal Research On "Karoshi"

Karoshi events occur frequently in China recent years, but due to the lack ofrelevant laws, the workers died from overwork in these events are basically without anycompensation, so it makes the employer more brazenly increase the working on strengthand work duration.The concept of karoshi comes from Japan, first appeared in Japan’s economicboom in the seventies of the20th century. It has a strict definition in both CommunityMedicine area and law area. But no related fields defined karoshi in our country. Idefined karoshi as a special work-related injuries phenomenon that for the employer’sinterests, the workers work for a long time in the labor intensity and working hoursmore than the law, and finally trigger acute cardiovascular, even life-threateningdisease.In addition, the reliefs on China’s system of work-related injuries do notinclude karoshi. But by the characteristics of the analysis of the definition ofwork-related injuries and karoshi, is easy to see that karoshi should be incorporatedinto the work-related injuries system, and can be applied to the certification process ofthe injured system and the principle of imputation.Overwork damages to personal physical and mental health, as well as their families.It deviates from the "people-oriented" concept of scientific development, and buried apotential problem for achieving the health and sustainable development ofcomprehensive social and economic in our country. Undoubtedly, Fatigue consequencesof decline in the quality of relevant personnel live, work, interpersonal relationships,and the organizational efficiency, it also causes the economic losses in the process ofnational economic construction, and the depletion of value of human resources. Sokaroshi should be regulated in the law as soon as possible.