Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures, and Stabilizing the Employment of Workers, and Enriching Workers' Vocational Lives
労働施策の総合的な推進並びに労働者の雇用の安定及び職業生活の充実等に関する法律
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: 15 with the Ministry of Justice's English, 18 in our translation, marked as such.
In Article 30-2, the guidelines the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare sets on the measures employers must take under paragraphs (1) and (2) of that Article: preventing workplace behavior that rests on a relationship of superiority and goes beyond what is necessary and reasonable for the work from harming their workers' working environment, and not treating a worker unfavorably for seeking advice about it.
In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) to Act No. 79 of 2007, a foreign national (外国人) as defined in Article 8 of this Act as it stood under its former title (雇用対策法) and as Article 1 of Act No. 79 of 2007 amended it.
第一条の規定による改正後の雇用対策法（以下「新雇用対策法」という。）第八条に規定する外国人
In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) to Act No. 63 of 2025, the guidelines provided for in Article 27-3, paragraph (2) of this Act as amended by Article 1 of that Act, on employers' measures to help workers receiving medical treatment balance it with work, which the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may set and publish before that provision comes into effect on 1 April 2026.
同項に規定する指針
基本方針
The basic policy the national government must set under Article 10 for the comprehensive promotion of the labor measures needed so that workers can make effective use of their abilities.
Information on the labor supply and demand situation, on the conditions of job offers and job applications, and other employment information the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must collect and organize under Article 11 to help match job offers with job seekers quickly and properly.
職業転換給付金
The benefits, other than those paid under other laws and regulations, that the national government and prefectures may pay under Article 18 to job seekers, other workers or employers to help workers into jobs suited to their abilities: benefits for job seekers' job search and livelihood, for learning knowledge and skills, for the cost of searching over a wide area or of services that ease job search, for the cost of moving for a job or training, for training job seekers to adapt to the work environment, and others set by Cabinet Order (政令).
再就職援助計画
A plan of measures to help workers find new jobs, which an employer must draw up under Article 24 before a downscaling or other change of its business (事業規模の縮小等) of a kind set by Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) that is expected to force a considerable number of workers at one place of business to leave their jobs.
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 79 of 2007.
This Act as amended by Article 3 of Act No. 24 of 2019.
A public employment security office (公共職業安定所), including the head of a school that shares some of its work under the Employment Security Act; a local government running a free employment placement business under that Act; or anyone running an employment placement business under that Act with a license or after giving notice.
公共職業安定所（職業安定法（昭和二十二年法律第百四十一号）の規定により公共職業安定所の業務の一部を分担する学校の長を含む。）、同法の規定により無料の職業紹介事業を行う地方公共団体及び同法の規定により許可を受けて、又は届出をして職業紹介事業を行う者
事業規模の縮小等
A reduction in the scale of a business or of its activities, or a change of business or its closure.
事業規模若しくは事業活動の縮小又は事業の転換若しくは廃止
職業に関する調査研究の成果
The results of the research the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must carry out under Article 12, paragraph (1) on the present state and trends of occupations, vocational aptitude testing and adaptability, job analysis methods and other basic matters about occupations.
In Article 30-3, the principle that no one should engage in behavior at the workplace that rests on a relationship of superiority, goes beyond what is necessary and reasonable for the work and harms workers' working environment (the behavior Article 30-2, paragraph (1) describes), together with the other problems such behavior causes.
In Article 27-3, the guidelines the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare sets and publishes on the measures employers must endeavor to take, such as arranging to hear and respond to workers' consultations, so that workers receiving treatment for an illness, injury or other reason do not see their condition worsen through work and can balance treatment with work.
In Article 28, paragraphs (1) and (2), the status of residence defined in Article 2-2, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act: the status under which a foreign national (外国人) stays in Japan, obtained with their permission to land or on its later change.
In Article 27, a change in the volume of employment at an employer's place of business, meaning a considerable number of workers leaving their jobs within a certain period through downscaling or for another reason, of a kind set by Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令).
In Article 27-2, any hiring other than of a new-graduate hire (新規学卒等採用者): a person hired through a job offer open only to students expected to graduate from a school under Article 1 of the School Education Act (other than an elementary school or kindergarten) or from another facility set by Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令), or to others that Order names.
新規学卒等採用者（学校教育法（昭和二十二年法律第二十六号）第一条に規定する学校（小学校及び幼稚園を除く。）その他厚生労働省令で定める施設の学生又は生徒であつて卒業することが見込まれる者その他厚生労働省令で定める者であることを条件とした求人により雇い入れられた者をいう。）以外の雇入れ
In Article 32, a request by the head of a local government to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare to carry out measures needed for workers' employment security, made where many workers in its area have lost or may lose their jobs or where it is otherwise needed.
船員
A mariner as defined in Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Mariners' Employment Security Act: a mariner under the Mariners Act (船員法), or anyone else serving on a ship that is not a Japanese ship; most of this Act does not apply to them.
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 Articles 3 and 4 of the supplementary provisions (附則) to Act No. 24 of 2019, an employer (事業主) other than the national government, a local government or an administrative execution agency (行政執行法人) that either has capital or total investment of no more than 300 million yen (50 million yen where its main business is retail or services, 100 million yen where it is wholesale), or regularly employs no more than 300 workers (50 where its main business is retail, 100 where it is wholesale or services).
国、地方公共団体及び行政執行法人以外の事業主であって、その資本金の額又は出資の総額が三億円（小売業又はサービス業を主たる事業とする事業主については五千万円、卸売業を主たる事業とする事業主については一億円）以下であるもの及びその常時使用する労働者の数が三百人（小売業を主たる事業とする事業主については五十人、卸売業又はサービス業を主たる事業とする事業主については百人）以下であるもの
In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) to Act No. 63 of 2025, the Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures, and Stabilizing the Employment of Workers, and Enriching Workers' Vocational Lives (Act No. 132 of 1966) as amended by the parts of Article 1 of that Act that come into effect on 1 April 2026 under Article 1, item 2 of those supplementary provisions.
第二条改正後労働施策総合推進法
This Act as amended by Article 2 of Act No. 63 of 2025.
In Article 3, paragraph (2), the content of a worker's duties, the abilities and experience those duties require, and other matters needed to carry them out.
援助対象労働者
In Article 26, a worker forced to leave their job because of a downscaling or other change of the employer's business (事業規模の縮小等).
The administrative agency that issued the decision being appealed.
処分等の行為
An approval (承認) or other disposition, or other act, made before Act No. 47 of 2016 (or the relevant provision of it) came into effect under the laws as they stood before that Act amended them.
申請等の行為
An application for approval (承認) or other act made under the laws as they stood before Act No. 47 of 2016 amended them and still pending when that Act (or the relevant provision of it) came into effect.
Each of the laws as amended by the amending Act these supplementary provisions belong to.
In Article 8-2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) to Act No. 63 of 2025, a specified entrusted business operator as defined in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Ensuring Proper Transactions Involving Specified Entrusted Business Operators (Act No. 25 of 2023): a business receiving a business entrustment (業務委託) that is either an individual who employs no employees, or a corporation with no officers other than a single representative and 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
In Article 8-2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) to Act No. 63 of 2025, a person as defined in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Act on Ensuring Proper Transactions Involving Specified Entrusted Business Operators (Act No. 25 of 2023): a specified entrusted business operator (特定受託事業者) who is an individual, or the representative of one that is a corporation.
同条第二項に規定する特定受託業務従事者