For months now, Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has been demanding that Tokyo Electric Power Company improve working conditions for their employees, including contractors.  Officials have also been demanding to know why TEPCo is taking so long to get all the employees tested for radiation exposure (at least 1,500 are still awaiting tests).  Now it turns out that 198 newly hired employees are missing!

The Japanese government has given TEPCo until 29 July 2011 to get all workers tested for radiation.  The government is also demanding an explanation for the disappearance of 198 workers who were hired AFTER the 11 March disasters.

Earlier in the week TEPCo admitted that it could not find 132 employees, but after the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency investigated it turns out that 198 are missing.

Government officials are concerned that TEPCo’s lack of accounting for its employees is just par for the course; from day one of the nuclear disaster TEPCo officials have proven they have a lackadaisical attitude towards managing all aspects of running a nuclear plant.  (or maybe they’re what are called ‘ghost workers’, they never existed, they were created on paper to ripoff taxpayers)