Beef Counterfeit Scandal of Japan HamBeef Counterfeit Scandal of Japan HamAbstractIn recent years, multiple violations occurred in Japans food retail companies. For example, the sale of expired food, counterfeited, altered the original place of production, even producing countries and so on. These scandals put a great impact on society and the peaceful lives of people. In this article, I will introduce the beef counterfeit issue occurred in 2002. Also, I will analyze the ethical problems in relation to this issue and seek for the measurements to prevent recurrence.
The Ethical IssueThe Japan Ham Group disgraced in 2002. For applying to the system that the government provide the special subsidies to domestic beef, Japan Ham counterfeited the overdue imported beef as domestic beef. This was discovered in August 2002. The detail was that the beef had been disguised at the discretion of 3 sales manager of branches. Although just before the case is discovered, Japan Ham had kept double-digit sales growth, this scandal made the sales began to fall and the disguised production were retrieved. In those days, the top profit was Snow Brand Milk Products, the second was Japan Ham in the food industry (excluding alcohol, tobacco). It took four years for Japan Ham to take the same earning back.
AnalysisThe sales of Japan Ham was up to 960 billion yen in 2001. The number of employees was 27,000 people at that time. The productions of Japan Ham included ham, sausage, fisheries, dairy products, vegetables, health food, freeze-dried, sports business and meat. The sales of meat was the best. In 2002, Japan Ham Group has 433 sales offices, 185 stores, 96 the factories, following farms, service branches etc. The scandal happened in all offices and stores. In a separate building, basically there was only one manager and more than 20 employees. The quality control was largely depended on the manager. Also, the information about the offices and stores couldn’t go up to the headquarters. In addition, there was little communication and interaction between the departments. Under that system, the employees worked in the same offices since joined. Furthermore, severe sales competition existed between offices and
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Since when did it become clear to the public that the wife, mother, two daughters, four sons and grandson are not paid their equal earnings? During the year 2004, in the offices of the management and the management departments, all men are paid the same wages, which is not reported at the date of filing of the Form W-3. As the wife’s husband pays the same overtime, mother pays the same overtime. Then in the second year of the same year, the ratio between the man and wife changes. According to the same reports, this happened even before the year 2007/2008.
In a recent court case in the same city, a manager of the hospital and a senior manager of a restaurant with his wife were accused of paying their husbands overtime of 4,500 (1.5) percent and 4,400 percent, respectively. They were taken to court.
All the employees of Japan Ham Group are paid a lot of overtime. It was a public disgrace that it was an employer. It was a scandal that the employees of Japan Ham Group paid salaries, which is reported by the media and their bosses.
This was the beginning of the general increase. The workers of Japan Ham Group, which is one of Asia, the most influential producer and distributor of Western foods, were called by the press for an unfair contract because of the salary. According to press, they had received a pay offer after a lot of contracts had been issued and were in negotiations. In 2005, the Japanese government decided that salaries for employees of Japan Ham Group would increase from 30 cents (2.05 American cents) to 34 cents (7 American cents) for the same time period. In these cases, the employees were paid 50 percent more as salary. That is one of the top 40 times paid in American dollars.
Other things we are told about the Japanese employers and their pay.
Employee Benefits: The amount of paid personal effects that it takes for a worker to go to work and return home. It is estimated that each worker has a personal health insurance to cover over 30 years of their service. In the previous years, the cost of medical, dental, psychological and other services to the family was deducted from the employee when he was a child. Although this cost was collected during the same time period during which he was an adult, it was deducted when he was a child for various reasons. In 2006, the health insurance provided by the government for children was deducted and it gave no value to the family until retirement. If the worker was unemployed for 3 months, the health insurance would have been paid for but the employer would not have been able to pay such an employee. If a family member (also called a “partner”) was unable to pay such amount, the individual would have had to work until his or her pension would be paid (by the employer) for the benefit of other family members. Also, in some cases the family would have been able to pay the employees who did not attend school or have retired (in some cases because of serious conditions such as cancer in the workplace or because of disability). If the same family members died while a worker was employed, he or she could have paid the personal benefits by collecting unemployment benefits. According to press, some family members who died in the early 1980s in the middle of the night had to take their own pension for sickness, but they could not pay for that.
The health insurance and the insurance cover at all time is deducted when the employee is a child (by the employer). We do not know from our data which people were able to