※ [本文转录自 Gossiping 看板 #1GT76D7A ] 作者: Paclitaxel (紫杉醇) 看板: Gossiping 标题: Re: [新闻] CNN报导台湾的过劳文化 时间: Wed Oct 10 02:48:42 2012 帮忙润饰一下 1.完整新闻标题/内文: Battling Taiwan's culture of overwork 与台湾的过劳文化开战 Employees in Taiwan work some of the longest hours in the world. CNN's Paula Hancocks reports on the culture of overwork. 台湾劳工工作时数可说是世界数一数二长的，来自 CNN 的 Paula Hancocks 报告 这种过劳文化。 (CNN) For the past six years, Guo Chi-mei has struggled to get out of bed on his own. The 40-year-old suffered a stroke in 2006 and can only take a few unaided steps to his wheelchair before his blood pressure rises to a dangerous level. 在过去的六年里，郭志美一直在努力摆脱自己的床。40 岁的他在 2006 年中风， 只能在血压升的太高前走几步路到他的轮椅上 Last year the government ruled that the stroke was because of overwork but his company is legally challenging the decision. 去年，政府裁定他的中风是来自於过劳，但他的公司却可以合法对此裁定提出质疑。 “The last six months before my stroke, I was working 18 hours a day and sleeping just four,” says Guo. His company had claimed $50,000 was missing from the account he was handling, and allege stealing. Guo denies the accusation and before his stroke was working overtime to investigate the missing money. "我中风前的最後6个月，每天工作 18 个小时，却只有四小时睡眠" 郭说。他的公司在他 中风前曾声称他所经手的帐户遗失了 50,000 元，并怀疑是他偷的。 郭否认了这一项指控，并在他中风前超时工作只为了调查遗失的款项。 “Just after 8am one day, I suddenly passed out. My colleagues carried me to a meeting room and left me there,” says Guo. 郭先生说：『就在有天早上八点多时，我突然昏了过去。我的同事带我到一间会议室， 只留我一个人在那。』 “The company waited three hours before they took me to the hospital, by the time I got there I had heavy bleeding on my brain and doctors said my condition had become so bad it was inoperable.” 『公司过了三个小时才带我去医院。当我到了医院，我的大脑大量出血，而医生 说我的病情已经太糟糕而无法手术 。』 Guo’s case is sadly not unique and some cases of overwork in Taiwan have even been fatal. In 2011, 50 workers’ deaths were blamed on excessive working hours, according to Taiwan’s Council of Labor Affairs (CLA). 可惜郭先生的情况并不是个案，在台湾，过劳在某些情况下甚至是致命的。 根据劳委会的资料，单单在 2011 年，有 50 名工人的死亡被归咎於工作时间过长 Hard work has long been ingrained in Taiwanese society, but only recently have officials begun to acknowledge that overwork exists. 勤奋工作是台湾文化的一部份，但直到最近政府才开始意识到过劳的存在 By law workers are not allowed to do more than 46 hours of overtime each month and companies are fined for violating these rules. 根据劳基法，劳工每月不能超时工作 46 小时，而违反的公司将会被处以罚锾 The annual working hours for Taiwanese employees eclipses many industrialized nations, according to figures from the Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) and the OECD. On average, the Taiwanese work 2,200 hours annually; 20% more than their counterparts in the United States or Japan and more than 35% longer than those in Germany. 根据台湾劳委会以及 OECD 的资料，台湾劳工每年的工作时数多到足以让许多工业国家 黯然失色。平均上来说，台湾人每年工作 2,200 小时，比美国和日本多出两成，甚至比 德国高出三成五 Earlier this year healthcare professionals took to the streets to protest what they call a sweatshop health system claiming overwork puts their patients in danger. 今年稍早，台湾的医疗从业人员才上街抗议血汗的卫生医疗系统并声明医疗人员的过劳 将会使病患暴露於危险之中 The government of Taiwan has reacted to a growing public outcry over the dangers of overwork and is trying to improve the work culture in the country, subsidizing health facilities specializing in occupational health. 台湾政府已对过劳问题所引发的舆论做出反应，并试着改善台湾的劳动文化，补贴职业 健康的相关卫生机构。 Dr. Guo Yue-Leon holds a free open clinic every Wednesday morning in Taipei’ s biggest public hospital specifically for occupational disease. He has noticed a marked increase in patients. 郭育良 教授每个星期三早上在台大医院有个免费职业病门诊，而他也观察到明显增加 的病人。 “Not because the number are increasing,” he says, “but the people are more recognizing the condition so those who have a heart attack or a stroke, he or she realizes that working too hard might have caused the problem.” 并非是数量的增加，而是人们也开始注意到过劳的环境会增加中风或是心脏病的风险 并了解过多的工作会导致问题产生的。 2.新闻连结: http://business.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/02/battling-taiwans-culture-of-overwork/ 点开有影片可以看 --

※ 发信站: 批踢踢实业坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 140.112.212.149 ※ 编辑: Paclitaxel 来自: 140.112.212.149 (10/10 02:50) 我是觉得承认或意识都可以有这样的意义，因为不只是政府，台湾在职业灾害的认定上 还处於非常初期的起步状态而已，从台湾职业医学医师的数量以及每位医师的 Loading 上可以了解到这一点。而如郭育良老师等人早期也是做环境灾害，如 油症 乌脚病 等出 身的，职业灾害在台湾还有很多空间可以进步。 这大概是我在翻译时的考量。 ※ 编辑: Paclitaxel 来自: 140.112.212.149 (10/10 02:54) 不一定是本来知道，台湾政府以及人民早期都没有注意到职业本身所带来的风险，过劳这 个词印象中也是从日本过来的，不过是这十年以内的事情，但台湾劳工本身超时工作却是 更长期的问题。 ※ 编辑: Paclitaxel 来自: 140.112.212.149 (10/10 02:57)

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