"差し戻し審で「みなし」適用　未払い残業代巡り―福岡高裁," 28 August 2025

[Unofficial description by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre]

A woman in Kumamoto City filed a lawsuit against her former employer, supervising organisation for foreign technical intern trainees, seeking unpaid overtime wages and disputing in court whether the “deemed working hours system” could be applied to duties performed outside the workplace. The Fukuoka High Court recognised the applicability of the system but ordered the organisation to pay approximately 220,000 yen for work not covered by it.

The woman’s duties included providing on site guidance, and her working hours were not recorded with a time card. Instead, she reported her start and end times in daily work reports.