overtime fraud; falsely reporting overtime
Refers to the practice of claiming overtime hours that were not actually worked, often to receive extra pay. A social issue in Japanese workplaces.
The employee was disciplined after the overtime fraud was uncovered.
An attendance management system was introduced to prevent false overtime reporting.
Most common spelling; カラ is katakana for emphasis or clarity.
Hiragana variant; less common but still seen.
Rarely used kanji form; 空 can be read as から meaning 'empty'.
Compound of カラ (空, 'empty') and 残業 (overtime), literally 'empty overtime'. The term likely emerged in the context of Japanese labor practices.