Japan enacted a law Wednesday to introduce flexible working hours for public school teachers and limit their monthly overtime to 45 hours, after their tendency to overwork drew public attention.The revised law on special measures on teachers' salaries will give local governments the option to have teachers work longer hours at busy times of the academic year and take more days off in the summer when students go on vacation, as long as they stick to the monthly overtime cap.Japan is notorious for its long working hours and teachers are no exception. The average working hours of junior high s…READ FULL ARTICLE
