Buddhist temple in Kyoto pays monks after unpaid overtime work claimed

Wow.....and here all along I thought these monks were working for the greater good of all mankind! Never knew monks were salaryman types.

Japanese 'Buddhism' allows monks to drive luxury cars, live in big houses, have wives and children, and eat steak diners. These things aren't going to pay for themselves.

"They also learned that the temple had forged an illegal agreement with a union for temple staff back in 1973 that stipulated the temple would not pay staff for overtime work, case sources said. Thus the temple is suspected of not paying monks for overtime work for over 40 years."

How fitting--organized religion is just like Japan Inc. Greedy old farts hording cash.

Yubaru Today  06:57 am JST

Wow.....and here all along I thought these monks were working for the greater good of all mankind! Never knew monks were salaryman types.

They drive kei-cars to funerals and other events but drive Lexuses and Benzes in their personal time.

"Our biggest problem was that we had not kept tabs on how our employees were actually working," the temple said in a statement.

No, your biggest problem was not paying for the time they did work.

And the second biggest problem is a statement coming from an inanimate object: 'the temple said.' Was the statement from a board of directors or what?

To be fair priests also take a salary with overtime.

As a Buddhist I've always found this strange and dare i say wrong. Like others have mentioned Buddhism here is like may thing that are borrowed from outside and given the J "twist". Many times when religion has come up in conversation here and people have said they are Buddhist i've asked them who was Buddha or which precept is hardest for you to follow. I always get blank expressions in reply. Then again i sell alcohol - that's not very Buddhist.

As for the monks in their high end cars-shame on you, if you have any.

Some people need to get enlightened quick!

Buddhist temple in Kyoto pays monks after unpaid overtime work claimed

Cause they don't want to end up like Dentsu..

They also learned that the temple had forged an illegal agreement with a union for temple staff back in 1973 that stipulated the temple would not pay staff for overtime work, case sources said. Thus the temple is suspected of not paying monks for overtime work for over 40 years.

So they have been doing something illegal for 40 years?? Then they should have charges brought up against them

the monk who had his Ferrari

Do monks pay income taxes?

Religions are tax excempted in Jspam.