India, Sept. 15 -- A Japanese court recently ruled that a cosmetic company and its president were responsible for the death of an employee and must now pay 150 million yen ( Rs.90 crore approximately) as compensation to her family. The court also decreed that the president must resign from his position.

The employee, a 25-year-old woman, died by suicide after being verbally abused in the workplace in 2023.

In October 2023, Satomi, a woman employee of Tokyo-based cosmetics manufacturer D-UP Corporation died after a long coma following a suicide attempt. Local news outlet NHK reported that Satomi had joined D-UP in April 2021.

In December 2021, she was asked to join a meeting with the company president, Mitsuru Sakai. During the meeting,...