Toyota employee’s suicide caused by workplace harassment
Courtesy: Glocal Times
The worker, who died at the age of 28, developed an adjustment disorder after he was constantly verbally abused by his superior, who had called him names like “moron” and told him “You’d be better off dead,” the lawyer, Yoshihide Tachino, said.
After completing his master’s degree at the University of Tokyo’s graduate school, he joined the automaker in April 2015 and started designing vehicles at Toyota’s headquarters in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, from March 2016.
He took a leave of absence from July 2016 after being diagnosed with an adjustment disorder. Although he was assigned to another section upon returning to work in October that year, the superior was still sitting close to him, Tachino said.
After returning to work, his hands were often trembling, and he became prone to simple mistakes. The worker said to people around him, “I want to die” before committing suicide in his room at an employee dormitory in October 2017, Tachino said.
During an in-house probe, the superior broadly admitted to making abusive comments, according to Tachino.
Source:
japantoday dot com
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