Japanese Companies Fight 'Part-Timer Terrorism'
In 2023, something called "sushi terrorism" in Japan made the news across the world. Customers were seen touching other people's food in sushi restaurants and filming themselves doing it.
Now, "part-timer terrorism" has arrived and this time it's employees who are behaving badly.
Actually, it's not a new thing. It's happened before but after some high-profile incidents, it's in the news again.
In several incidents part-time employees, often at restaurants or shops, have filmed themselves doing inappropriate things at work.
One incident happened at a Domino's Pizza store in February.
An employee at the Amagasaki store was shown putting his finger in his nose and then touching pizza dough with the same finger.
The video was shared on social media.
Domino's Pizza Japan said sorry to its customers and said that the dough was thrown away. It said it would try to stop anything like this happening again, and that the employees involved in the incident had lost their jobs.
In another incident at a different shop, a worker was shown eating part of some food that was for sale.
Cleanliness is very important in Japan and these incidents have annoyed both the businesses affected and members of the public.
In fact, reputation insurance is now being sold by insurance companies.
This has been available for a few years, according to the Mainichi Shimbun, and it protects businesses against lost earnings after incidents of things like part-timer terrorism or sushi terrorism.
According to The Guardian, by the end of 2023, around 20,000 businesses had taken out this insurance with one insurance company.
