A Japanese town has been ordered to pay 10.9m yen (£56,581) in overtime to public servants made to start work five minutes early each day.
On 26 February 2021, all 146 government employees in Ginan, in Gifu prefecture on the island of Honshu, were told to clock in at 8.25am, five minutes earlier than the standard start time. The directive, issued by then mayor Hideo Kojima, came into effect on 1 March that year.
