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Dentsu Inc., one of the largest global ad agency holding groups, today was fined a mere 500,000 yen (approximately $4,400) for violating Japan’s labor laws, violations that purportedly culminated in the suicide of a 24-year-old employee.
The Tokyo Summary Court handed down the penalty, which is strikingly small for a company that reported $10 billion in annual revenue for 2015. The ruling held that Dentsu broke Japan’s Labor Standards Law when it forced former employee Matsuri Takahashi and three others to work more than 100 hours of overtime per month between October 2015 and December 2015.
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