3 Only after the statutory working hours of the Labor Standards Act were revised in 1989, which reduced working hours from 48 to 44 hours per week, did the number of working hours turn toward a decreasing trend. 4 Since then, the government’s efforts to shorten working hours have continued; the legal working hours were reduced to 40 hours per week in 2003, and were limited to a maximum number of working hours of 52 hours weekly in 2018.
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Special Series I: Working hours as a social determinant of workers' health.
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