Act on Equal Opportunity and Treatment between Men and Women in Employment
雇用の分野における男女の均等な機会及び待遇の確保等に関する法律
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. 33 terms: 9 with the Ministry of Justice's English, 24 in our translation, marked as such.
In Section 2 of Chapter III, the conciliation that the Director of a Prefectural Labor Bureau (都道府県労働局長) has the dispute coordinating committee (紛争調整委員会) carry out under Article 18(1), which is conducted by three conciliation commissioners (調停委員).
委員会
The dispute coordinating committee (紛争調整委員会) set up in each Prefectural Labor Bureau (都道府県労働局) under Article 6(1) of the Act on Promoting the Resolution of Individual Labor-Related Disputes.
委員会
The dispute coordinating committee (紛争調整委員会) set up in each Prefectural Labor Bureau (都道府県労働局) under Article 6(1) of the Act on Promoting the Resolution of Individual Labor-Related Disputes.
The guidelines the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare sets so that employers deal properly with the matters in Articles 5 to 7 (discrimination based on sex in recruitment, hiring and treatment at work) and Article 9(1) to (3) (retirement rules, dismissal and other unfavourable treatment tied to marriage, pregnancy or childbirth).
The guidelines the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare sets for the proper and effective carrying out of the measures employers must take under Article 11(1) to (3) against sexual behaviour at work (職場における性的な言動) that puts a worker at a disadvantage or harms a worker's working environment.
The guidelines the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare sets for the proper and effective carrying out of the measures employers must take under Article 11-3(1) and (2) against behaviour at work about a female worker's pregnancy, childbirth or related reasons that harms her working environment.
The guidelines the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare sets for the proper and effective carrying out of the measures, such as changing working hours or lightening duties, that employers must take under Article 13(1) so that a female worker can follow the instructions she receives from the health guidance or health examinations (保健指導又は健康診査) referred to in Article 12.
関係当事者
The worker and the employer who are parties to a dispute over the matters listed in Article 16, other than a dispute about recruiting and hiring workers, either or both of whom may apply for conciliation (調停) under Article 18(1).
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 82 of 2006.
The basic policy the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare sets for the measures to secure equal opportunity and treatment between men and women in employment.
The laws amended by Act No. 54 of 2002, and the orders made under them, as that Act amended them.
The laws amended by Act No. 54 of 2002, and the orders made under them, as they stood before that Act amended them.
In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 26 of 2008, the laws amended by that Act, including the orders made under them, as that Act amended them.
In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 26 of 2008, the laws amended by that Act, including the orders made under them, as they stood before that Act amended them.
In Article 11-2, the principle that no one should put a worker at a disadvantage over sexual behaviour at work (職場における性的な言動) described in Article 11(1), or engage in such behaviour that harms a worker's working environment, together with the other problems such behaviour causes.
妊娠・出産等関係言動問題
In Article 11-4, the principle that no one should engage in behaviour at work about a female worker's pregnancy, childbirth or the other pregnancy- or childbirth-related reasons described in Article 11-3(1) that harms her working environment, together with the other problems such behaviour causes.
新機関
A national or other public body listed in the right-hand column of the table in Article 2 of the supplementary provisions of Act No. 26 of 2008, such as the Commissioner of the Japan Tourism Agency (観光庁長官), the Japan Transport Safety Board (運輸安全委員会) or the Central Labor Relations Commission (中央労働委員会), which is treated as having made the approvals, designations and other acts of the former body (旧機関) it replaces in that table.
旧機関
A national government body listed in the middle column of the table in Article 2 of the supplementary provisions of Act No. 26 of 2008, such as the Aircraft and Railway Accidents Investigation Commission (航空・鉄道事故調査委員会), the Marine Accidents Inquiry Agency (海難審判庁) or the Central Mariners' Labor Relations Commission (船員中央労働委員会), whose approvals, designations and other acts made before that Act comes into effect count afterwards as made by the body the table puts in its place.
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.
A permission, approval or other disposition (処分), or a contract or other act, that the head of a maritime or land transport office (海運監理部長等) made under the laws as they stood before Act No. 54 of 2002 came into effect, which that Act treats as made by the corresponding head of a transport office (運輸監理部長等) under the laws as it amended them.
In the supplementary provisions of Act No. 54 of 2002, the Director of the Maritime Supervision Department (海運監理部長), the Directors of Land Transport Branch Offices (陸運支局長) and of Maritime Branch Offices (海運支局長), and the heads of the offices of Land Transport Branch Offices (陸運支局), as they were before that Act comes into effect.
In the supplementary provisions of Act No. 54 of 2002, the Director of the Transport Supervision Department (運輸監理部長), the Directors of Transport Branch Offices (運輸支局長), and the heads of the offices of District Transport Bureaus (地方運輸局), the Transport Supervision Department and Transport Branch Offices, who take over from the officials that Act replaces (海運監理部長等).
An application, notification or other step made before Act No. 54 of 2002 came into effect to the head of a maritime or land transport office (海運監理部長等) under the laws as they stood before it, which that Act treats as made to the corresponding head of a transport office (運輸監理部長等) under the laws as it amended them.
改正後男女雇用機会均等法
In Articles 3 and 5 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 63 of 2025, the Act on Equal Opportunity and Treatment between Men and Women in Employment as amended by Article 3 of Act No. 63 of 2025, leaving aside the amendments that Article 1, item (i) of those provisions brings into effect on the day the Act was promulgated (公布).
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.
処分等の行為
A permission or other administrative act made under the laws as they stood before the amendment these supplementary provisions deal with.
申請等の行為
An application for permission or other act still pending under the pre-amendment laws when the amendment took effect.
The administrative agency that issued the decision being appealed.
Short name, in Article 2 of the supplementary provisions of Act No. 26 of 2008, for the Act establishing the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (国土交通省設置法, Act No. 100 of 1999) as it stood before Article 1 of Act No. 26 of 2008 amended it.
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.
As defined in Article 2(1) of the Act on Ensuring Proper Transactions Involving Specified Entrusted Business Operators, an enterprise on the receiving end of a business entrustment (業務委託) that is either an individual who employs no employees, or a corporation that has no officers other than a single representative and employs no employees.
特定受託事業者に係る取引の適正化等に関する法律（令和五年法律第二十五号）第二条第一項に規定する特定受託事業者
As defined in Article 2(2) of the Act on Ensuring Proper Transactions Involving Specified Entrusted Business Operators, a specified entrusted business operator (特定受託事業者) who is an individual, or the representative of a specified entrusted business operator that is a corporation.
同条第二項に規定する特定受託業務従事者