Every term this law . Its definitions bind only this law — each entry says where the definition applies and links to the sentence that settles it. 74 terms: 32 with the Ministry of Justice's English, 42 in our translation, marked as such.
労働者の募集
A person who wants to employ workers inviting people who want to become workers to become its employees, either itself or by entrusting someone else to do it.
労働者を雇用しようとする者が、自ら又は他人に委託して、労働者となろうとする者に対し、その被用者となることを勧誘すること
Taking applications from those offering jobs and from those seeking work, and helping an employment relationship come about between the two.
求人及び求職の申込みを受け、求人者と求職者との間における雇用関係の成立をあつせんすること
特定地方公共団体
A local government (地方公共団体) that carries on a free employment placement business (無料の職業紹介事業) under Article 29, paragraph (1).
第二十九条第一項の規定により無料の職業紹介事業を行う地方公共団体
A person carrying on an employment placement business either with the permission (許可) of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 30, paragraph (1) or Article 33, paragraph (1), or after giving the notification (届出) Article 33-2, paragraph (1) or Article 33-3, paragraph (1) requires.
第三十条第一項若しくは第三十三条第一項の許可を受けて、又は第三十三条の二第一項若しくは第三十三条の三第一項の規定による届出をして職業紹介事業を行う者
Guidance given to people seeking to take up a job, through practical training, courses, instructions, advice, information or other means, to make it easier for them to choose a job suited to their abilities and to increase their adaptability to it.
職業に就こうとする者に対し、実習、講習、指示、助言、情報の提供その他の方法により、その者の能力に適合する職業の選択を容易にさせ、及びその職業に対する適応性を増大させるために行う指導
A person holding the permission of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 30, paragraph (1) to carry on a paid employment placement business (有料の職業紹介事業).
労働者供給
Having workers work under another person's direction and orders under a supply contract, not including worker dispatch (労働者派遣) as defined in Article 2, item (i) of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers (Act No. 88 of 1985).
供給契約に基づいて労働者を他人の指揮命令を受けて労働に従事させること
A labor union under the Labor Union Act, or another body equivalent to one that a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) specifies, that carries on a worker supply business (労働者供給事業) under Article 45, which lets such a body carry on one free of charge with the permission of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.
第四十五条の規定により労働者供給事業を行う労働組合等（労働組合法による労働組合その他これに準ずるものであつて厚生労働省令で定めるものをいう。以下同じ。）
This Act as it stood before Article 1 of Act No. 82 of 2003 amended it.
The date Act No. 82 of 2003, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
A person, other than its own employees, whom someone who wants to employ workers has recruit workers for it under Article 36 — paragraph (1) where the person is paid for it, which needs the permission of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, or paragraph (3) where the person is not, which needs a notification to the Minister — as Article 39 defines it.
A person carrying on a business of providing recruitment/candidate information in a specified manner (特定募集情報等提供) after notifying the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 43-2, paragraph (1).
第四十三条の二第一項の規定による届出をして特定募集情報等提供事業を行う者
学校
A school as defined in Article 1 of the School Education Act (Act No. 26 of 1947): a kindergarten, elementary school, lower secondary school, compulsory education school, upper secondary school, secondary education school, special needs school, university or college of technology.
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 82 of 2003.
As part of the range of job categories, etc. handled (取扱職種の範囲等), the range of job categories an employment placement business handles together with the rest of the scope of its work.
その職業紹介事業において取り扱う職種の範囲その他業務の範囲
This Act as amended by Article 2 of Act No. 89 of 1985.
This Act as it stood before Article 2 of Act No. 89 of 1985 amended it.
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 85 of 1999.
Any of the four acts Article 4, paragraph (6) lists: passing information on worker recruitment, at the request of those recruiting workers, commissioned recruiters (募集受託者) or employment placement service providers (職業紹介事業者) and the like, to people aspiring to become workers or to other such providers; otherwise collecting such information to make it easier for people aspiring to become workers to choose a job and providing it to them or to such providers; passing information on people aspiring to become workers, at the request of those people or such providers, to those recruiting workers, commissioned recruiters or other such providers; and otherwise collecting information on people aspiring to become workers to make it easier for those recruiting workers to secure the workforce they need and providing it to those recruiting workers, commissioned recruiters or such providers.
次に掲げる行為
A person, other than its own employees, whom someone who wants to employ workers has recruit workers for it under Article 36 — paragraph (1) where the person is paid for it, which needs the permission of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, or paragraph (3) where the person is not, which needs a notification to the Minister — as Article 39 defines it.
第三十九条に規定する募集受託者
労働者派遣法
Short name this Act uses for the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers (Act No. 88 of 1985).
Personal information (個人情報): information about an individual that can identify a particular person, including information that can do so when matched against other information.
個人に関する情報であつて、特定の個人を識別することができるもの（他の情報と照合することにより特定の個人を識別することができることとなるものを含む。）
職業安定主管局長
The Director-General of the main employment security bureau (職業安定主管局), the internal bureau of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare that handles employment placement, vocational guidance and other matters of employment security.
The date Act No. 89 of 1985, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
学生生徒等
A student or pupil of a school (学校) as defined in Article 1 of the School Education Act, or a person who has graduated from or left such a school, other than persons a Cabinet Order (政令) excludes.
The head of a school (学校) to whom the chief of a public employment security office (公共職業安定所) has given part of that office's work under Article 27, paragraph (1), with the head's consent or at the head's request.
A labor union under the Labor Union Act, or another body equivalent to one that a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) specifies.
労働組合法による労働組合その他これに準ずるものであつて厚生労働省令で定めるもの
A member of an organized crime group as defined in Article 2(vi) of the Act on Prevention of Unjust Acts by Organized Crime Group Members.
指定地域
In Article 11, paragraph (1), an area the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates as one where poor transport links to the public employment security office (公共職業安定所) make it difficult to apply to that office directly with a job opening or for a job.
This Act as it stood before Article 1 of Act No. 85 of 1999 amended it.
In Articles 5 and 6 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 12 of 2022, this Act as amended by Article 2 of that Act, counting only the amendments listed in Article 1, item (iii) of those supplementary provisions.
In Article 4, paragraph (6), an employment placement service provider (職業紹介事業者) or another person a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) specifies.
In Article 5-4, advertisements in newspapers, magazines or other publications, the posting or handing out of documents, and other means a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) specifies, through which information on job openings, worker recruitment, job seekers and the like is given out.
In Article 32, a member of an organized crime group (暴力団員) as Article 5-6, paragraph (1), item (v) defines it for that Article, or a person who ceased to be one less than five years ago.
The date Act No. 85 of 1999, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
無料の職業紹介
Employment placement (職業紹介) done without receiving a fee or compensation for it under any name.
職業紹介に関し、いかなる名義でも、その手数料又は報酬を受けないで行う職業紹介
労働者の募集を行う者等
In Article 4, paragraph (6), items (i) and (iv), a person recruiting workers, a commissioned recruiter (募集受託者) as Article 39 defines it, or an employment placement service provider (職業紹介事業者) or another person a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) specifies.
労働者の募集を行う者、募集受託者（第三十九条に規定する募集受託者をいう。第三号、第五条の三第一項、第五条の四第一項及び第二項並びに第五条の五第一項において同じ。）又は職業紹介事業者その他厚生労働省令で定める者（以下この項において「職業紹介事業者等」という。）
労働者になろうとする者等
In Article 4, paragraph (6), items (ii) and (iii), a person aspiring to become a worker, or an employment placement service provider (職業紹介事業者) or another person a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) specifies.
労働者になろうとする者又は職業紹介事業者等
Providing recruitment/candidate information (募集情報等提供) that is done by collecting information on people aspiring to become workers.
労働者になろうとする者に関する情報を収集して行う募集情報等提供
Worker dispatch services (労働者派遣事業) as defined in Article 2, item (iii) of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers, together with services securing employment opportunities for construction workers (建設業務労働者就業機会確保事業) as defined in Article 2, paragraph (10) of the Act on the Improvement of Employment of Construction Workers.
Short name for the Act on the Improvement of Employment of Construction Workers (Act No. 33 of 1976).
求人等に関する情報
In Article 5-4, paragraph (3), information on job openings or worker recruitment, information on job seekers or people aspiring to become workers, and other information a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) specifies.
In Article 5-5, paragraph (2), a collective name for public employment security offices (公共職業安定所), specified local governments (特定地方公共団体), employment placement service providers (職業紹介事業者) and job posters, persons recruiting workers and commissioned recruiters (募集受託者), providers of recruitment/candidate information in a specified manner (特定募集情報等提供事業者), and providers of worker supply services (労働者供給事業者) and persons seeking to have workers supplied to them.
In Article 5-5, the personal information (個人情報) of a job seeker, of a person aspiring to become a worker, or of a supplied worker.
The bureau set up as an internal bureau of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to handle employment placement, vocational guidance and other matters of employment security.
厚生労働省の内部部局として置かれる局で職業紹介及び職業指導その他職業の安定に関する事務を所掌するもの
事業者団体
In Article 47-3, an association whose direct or indirect members are employment placement service providers (職業紹介事業者) or persons offering the service of providing recruitment/candidate information (募集情報等提供事業).
In Article 51, a collective name for employment placement service providers (職業紹介事業者), job posters, persons recruiting workers, commissioned recruiters (募集受託者), providers of recruitment/candidate information in a specified manner (特定募集情報等提供事業者), providers of worker supply services (労働者供給事業者) and persons seeking to have workers supplied to them.
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 85 of 1999, short name for the Convention concerning Fee-Charging Employment Agencies (Revised 1949) (No. 96).
In the supplementary provisions of Act No. 87 of 1999, work of the State, of another local government or of another public body that an organ of a local government managed or carried out under an Act (法律) or a Cabinet Order (政令) before that Act comes into effect, which the local government then handles as its own affairs.
The government agency ranking above the one that made a decision, which hears administrative appeals against that decision.
In Article 3 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 47 of 2016, this Act as amended by Article 6 of that Act.
In Article 3 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 47 of 2016, this Act as it stood before Article 6 of that Act amended it.
In Article 5 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 12 of 2022, a person, other than a local government (地方公共団体), already carrying on a business of providing recruitment/candidate information in a specified manner (特定募集情報等提供), as Article 4, paragraph (7) of this Act as amended by Article 2 of that Act defines it, when the provisions listed in Article 1, item (iii) of those supplementary provisions come into effect.
有料の職業紹介
Any employment placement (職業紹介) other than free employment placement (無料の職業紹介), which is placement done without receiving a fee or compensation for it under any name.
無料の職業紹介以外の職業紹介
In Article 5-3, paragraph (3), the work to be done and the wages, working hours and other working conditions that were made clear to a job seeker, a person aspiring to become a worker or a supplied worker under paragraph (1) of that Article.
構成員
In Article 33-3, paragraph (1), a direct or indirect member of a corporation established under a special Act (特別の法律) and specified by a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令), which that paragraph lets carry on a free employment placement business (無料の職業紹介事業) after notifying the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.
A person, other than its own employees, whom someone who wants to employ workers has recruit workers for it under Article 36 — paragraph (1) where the person is paid for it, which needs the permission of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, or paragraph (3) where the person is not, which needs a notification to the Minister — as Article 39 defines it.
第三十九条に規定する募集受託者
構成員
In Article 47-3, paragraph (1), an employment placement service provider (職業紹介事業者) or a person offering the service of providing recruitment/candidate information (募集情報等提供事業) that is a direct or indirect member of an association.
The head of a university (大学), including the head of a university, higher school (高等学校), vocational college (専門学校) or teacher-training school (教員養成諸学校) that continues to exist under Article 98 of the School Education Act, as paragraph (2) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 88 of 1949 provides.
同条の規定により存続する大学、高等学校、専門学校及び教員養成諸学校の長を含む
学校の長
The head of a school, including the head of a school under the former rules (従前の規定) that continues to exist under Article 98 of the School Education Act, as paragraph (2) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 88 of 1949 provides.
学校教育法第九十八条の規定により存続する従前の規定による学校の長を含む
The head of an upper secondary school (高等学校), including the head of a secondary school (中等学校) that continues to exist under Article 98 of the School Education Act, as paragraph (2) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 88 of 1949 provides.
同条の規定により存続する中等学校の長を含む
Act No. 64 of 1969 itself, whose supplementary provisions (附則) these are, which comes into effect on 1 October 1969.
Cabinet Orders (政令) under the National Government Organization Act, or under the related Acts as amended by the 1983 amending law (Act No. 78 of 1983), by which certain government bodies are to be set up.
Short name, in Article 1 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 45 of 1997, for the Vocational Abilities Development Promotion Act (Act No. 64 of 1969).
Short name, in the wording Article 2, paragraph (1) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 85 of 1999 substitutes into Article 32-6, paragraph (1) of this Act as that Act amended it, for that same Act, the 1999 Act partially amending the Employment Security Act and other Acts (職業安定法等の一部を改正する法律, Act No. 85 of 1999).
処分等の行為
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 87 of 1999, a permission or other disposition (処分), or another act, done under a law's provisions. Article 160 treats such an act done under the laws as they stood before that Act (or, for a provision Article 1 of its supplementary provisions lists, that provision) came into effect, where the official who is to handle the matter changes on the day it comes into effect, as done under the corresponding provisions of the laws as that Act amended them, except as Articles 2 to 159 of its supplementary provisions or the transitional provisions of the amended laws, including orders made under them, provide otherwise.
申請等の行為
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 87 of 1999, an application for a permission or the like, or another act, made under a law's provisions. Article 160 treats such an application or act made under the laws as they stood before that Act (or, for a provision Article 1 of its supplementary provisions lists, that provision) and still pending when it came into effect, where the official who is to handle the matter changes on the day it comes into effect, as done under the corresponding provisions of the laws as that Act amended them, except as Articles 2 to 159 of its supplementary provisions or the transitional provisions of the amended laws, including orders made under them, provide otherwise.
The administrative agency that issued the decision being appealed.
新許可
A license under Article 30, paragraph (1) or Article 33, paragraph (1) of this Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 82 of 2003 (新職業安定法), which a person holding a former license (旧許可) when that Act came into effect is deemed to have received on that day; it stays valid for the longest of the remaining validity periods of that person's former licenses on that day.
A license under Article 30, paragraph (1) or Article 33, paragraph (1) of this Act as it stood before Article 1 of Act No. 82 of 2003 amended it (旧職業安定法), held by a person when that Act came into effect; its holder is deemed to have received the corresponding new license (新許可) on that day.
The date Act No. 61 of 2011, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
Short name, in the supplementary provisions of Act No. 67 of 2014, for the 2014 Act amending the Act on General Rules for Incorporated Administrative Agencies (Act No. 66 of 2014), on whose effective date Act No. 67 of 2014 comes into effect.
処分等の行為
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 47 of 2016, an approval or other disposition (処分), or another act, done under a law's provisions. Article 7 treats such an act done under the laws as they stood before that Act (or, for a provision Article 1 of its supplementary provisions lists, that provision) came into effect, where the official who is to handle the matter changes on the day it comes into effect, as done under the corresponding provisions of the laws as that Act amended them, except as these supplementary provisions or a Cabinet Order (政令) under Article 9 of them provide otherwise.
申請等の行為
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 47 of 2016, an application for an approval or the like, or another act, made under a law's provisions. Article 7 treats such an application or act made under the laws as they stood before that Act (or, for a provision Article 1 of its supplementary provisions lists, that provision) and still pending when it came into effect, where the official who is to handle the matter changes on the day it comes into effect, as done under the corresponding provisions of the laws as that Act amended them, except as these supplementary provisions or a Cabinet Order (政令) under Article 9 of them provide otherwise.