Work-Related Suicide Recognition / 过劳自杀工伤认定

Definition

Work-related suicide recognition is the legal and institutional attribution of suicide or self-harm to mental illness and psychological burden materially caused by work, rather than excluding the event automatically as a private voluntary act.

Current Synthesis

The Mori case shows that recognition depends on reconstructing actual control and cumulative burden rather than accepting payroll categories or employer labels. Scheduled shifts, early arrival, delayed departure, required learning, assessment-linked volunteering, reporting, transport constraints, sleep loss, visible decline, and ignored internal warnings formed one evidentiary system. The family’s records and collective support moved the dispute from individual psychology toward employer safety responsibility.

Recognition is not the claim that every suicide has a single cause. It is a route for testing whether work materially produced or intensified mental illness and danger, including through chronic long hours rather than only a discrete accident, assault, or episode of harassment.

Key Claims

• Suicide should not be categorically separated from occupational injury when work materially causes mental illness or loss of safety.
• Actual burden matters more than whether the employer called an activity voluntary or outside work.
• Chronic hours, sleep deprivation, role overload, and failed response to warnings can combine into foreseeable psychological danger.
• Personal vulnerability does not erase an employer’s contribution or duty of care.
• Records, unions, media, administrative review, and litigation can make hidden labor and causation contestable.
• Recognition should remain causally careful because suicide is often multifactorial.

Evidence

• Burden reconstruction: 2026秋季篇番外｜进入大厂两个月，她选择了自杀 describes schedules, wages, training, notebooks, files, reports, transport, and sleep as evidence assembled by Mina’s parents.
• Failed prevention: 2026秋季篇番外｜进入大厂两个月，她选择了自杀 says colleagues and managers saw deterioration and headquarters received fatigue warnings without reducing the burden.
• Recognition path: 2026秋季篇番外｜进入大厂两个月，她选择了自杀 traces initial denial, review, 2012 recognition, union support, litigation, and the 2015 settlement.
• Doctrinal significance: 2026秋季篇番外｜进入大厂两个月，她选择了自杀 presents the case as helping make chronic overwork and work-caused mental illness legible within occupational safety.

Counterevidence & Qualifications

The page is an institutional concept, not a clinical or legal test for an individual case. The episode’s comparison with Chinese law and its account of Japanese thresholds and doctrinal change require primary legal verification. Work-related recognition can coexist with multiple contributing factors and should not be inferred from hours alone without evidence about illness, timing, control, and causation.

What Changed

• Established a work-related-suicide framework integrating chronic burden, mental illness, actual control, warnings, and employer safety duty.

Related Concepts

• Mental-Health Symptom Escalation / 心理症状就医升级边界 - identifies deterioration that should trigger assessment before a crisis.
• Suicide-Risk Recognition and Support / 轻生风险识别与支持 - individual warning and support boundary adjacent to institutional causation.
• Mental Health Crisis Intervention Boundary / 心理危机干预边界 - urgent safety response when ordinary monitoring is insufficient.
• Coerced Voluntary Labor / 强制性自愿劳动 - reveals burdens hidden outside scheduled time.
• Labor Market Counterforces - unions, law, and public scrutiny that can challenge employer accounts.