This is just crazy, and whats worse is just how exploitable it is. I mean in theory it would be a great idea but the problem is how many people faking breakups or even faking relationships altogether would be enormous! Not only that but your surely to get people who would after every breakup no matter how small taking time off just because they can not because they need time to "heal".

Something like this is too hard to monitor to be effective to the people that actually might legitimately need it.

It sounds similar to what they did in sweden where they've now given an extended paternaty and maternaty leave in order to give the child a secure attachment to its parents. This will most likely result in more betterly educated future generations.

But what on earth is this doing for future generations exept rewarding them for spinelessness.

But you won't feel any better than before you broke up after the leave. I say you should put up with it like a man or a woman and not a little one.

Hello Mr. Employer, me and my none-existent girlfriend of 5 minuets have just broken up and I require payed Heartbreak leave for the next 6 months.

Yeah this could work, bring it to the UK!

Eh, so what, sick days are exploited too. It's hard to prove that you are sick and its hard to judge who needs time off for this kind of cold or more time off for that kind of cold. Maybe this is just the employers way of encouraging people who aren't mentally stable to stay home. Japanese do tend to be work obsessed that perhaps the employers had problems with people insisting they should be at work who seem to upset to be there.

Companies don't just give time off to be nice. They have to have done some study somewhere that forcing someone to be somewhere when they aren't emotionally ready to be there either leads to no work or mistakes and if people are given the time they need, the get over the issue faster and get back into work. Besides, after you go through a bad break up, most emotional people tend to favor whoever gives them sympathy whatsoever. IF they see their employer giving them sympathy that will just make them more loyal in the future.

Anyway, seeing physical pain as worse than emotional pain is a VALUE judgment you have been taught to make. Depending on where you are in the world, if someone knew you were emotional they would be very loathe to ask you to do anything you didnt want to. Calling the Swiss pussies for allowing more time to bond with children is also a value judgement. Looked at in a different way, isn't it kind of silly that we would value making money for a created corporation over the natural bond between parent and child? When you look back on your death bed, are you really gonna be thinking of how many days you toughed it out at work, or how many memories you had with your loved ones?

I personally have seen people who have just broken up with someone in worse shape than if they were in a cold and more likely to make irrational decisions and to be mean to other people.