Article 45-2Special Provisions for Workers Employed by Related Subsidiaries
第四十五条の二（関係子会社に雇用される労働者に関する特例）
To apply the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (1) and paragraph (7) to an employer that, based on the application of that employer and all of its subsidiaries, has had it certified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare that the employer and the subsidiaries to which the application pertains (hereinafter referred to as "related subsidiaries") conform to the following criteria (hereinafter a parent employer that has had this certified is referred to as a "related parent employer"), the workers that the related subsidiaries employ are deemed to be workers employed solely by the related parent employer, and the related subsidiaries' places of business are deemed to be the related parent employer's places of business:
pursuant to the provisions of Article 78, paragraph (2), the employer has appointed a person to handle the tasks set forth in the items of that paragraph, and has decided that the person in question will also carry out the tasks set forth in item (i) of that paragraph for the related subsidiaries;
it is recognized that the parent employer is sure to be able to succeed in facilitating the employment of qualifying disabled workers they employ and qualifying disabled workers employed by the related subsidiaries and in stabilizing employment for those workers;
the number of qualifying disabled workers the related subsidiaries employ is at least the number provided for by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare;
the related subsidiary in question is sufficiently able to appropriately carry out personnel management for the qualifying disabled workers it employs; or, in connection with the duties in which the qualifying disabled workers that the other related subsidiaries employ are engaged, the same persons are closely connected with both the business that the related subsidiary in question does and the business that the other related subsidiaries do or there are close operational connections in the business that the related subsidiary in question and the other related subsidiaries do.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 44, paragraph (1) or paragraph (1) of the following Article, if a related subsidiary has been granted the certification referred to in one of those paragraphs, the subsidiary or related company in question is deemed to be a related subsidiary and the provisions of the preceding paragraph (except for item (iii) and item (iv)) apply.
An employer whose related subsidiary has been granted the certification referred to in paragraph (1) may not be granted the certification referred to in that paragraph.
When the number of qualifying disabled workers referred to in paragraph (1), item (iii) is calculated, each part-time qualifying disabled worker is deemed to constitute the number of qualifying disabled workers as provided for by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
When the number of qualifying disabled workers referred to in paragraph (1), item (iii) is calculated, each worker with a severe physical or intellectual disability (other than part-time workers) is deemed to constitute the number of qualifying disabled workers provided for by Cabinet Order.
Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (4), when the number of qualifying disabled workers referred to in paragraph (1), item (iii) is calculated, each part-time worker with a severe physical or intellectual disability is deemed to constitute the number of qualifying disabled workers provided for by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, to the extent that this does not reach the number provided for by Cabinet Order referred to in the preceding paragraph.
The provisions of Article 44, paragraph (4) apply mutatis mutandis to a case as referred to in paragraph (1).
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