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報告
The periodic report an employer files with the authorities under Labor Standards Act Article 38-4(4) on work under a discretionary-work resolution.
The head of the labor standards inspection office with jurisdiction over where the workplace is located.
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare's designation, under Article 7-2, paragraph (1), item (iii), of a funds transfer service provider (資金移動業者) that carries on Type II Funds Transfer Service (第二種資金移動業) and meets the requirements set out there, which is what allows a worker's wages to be paid into an account held with that provider.
The Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act as amended by the amendment these supplementary provisions belong to.
The Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act as amended by the amendment these supplementary provisions belong to.
The Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act as amended by the amendment these supplementary provisions belong to.
The Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act as amended by the amendment these supplementary provisions belong to.
The Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act as amended by the amendment these supplementary provisions belong to.
The Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act as amended by the amendment these supplementary provisions belong to.
The Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act as amended by the amendment these supplementary provisions belong to.
The Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act as amended by the amendment these supplementary provisions belong to.
The Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act as amended by the amendment these supplementary provisions belong to.
The Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act as amended by the amendment these supplementary provisions belong to.
The Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act as amended by the amendment these supplementary provisions belong to.
The Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act as amended by the amendment these supplementary provisions belong to.
The Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act as amended by the amendment these supplementary provisions belong to.
The Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act as amended by the amendment these supplementary provisions belong to.
A workplace committee of employer and worker representatives under Labor Standards Act Article 38-4 whose resolutions can replace labor-management agreements.
A resolution adopted by a four-fifths majority of the labor-management committee under Labor Standards Act Article 38-4, paragraph (1).
A decision adopted by a labor-management committee, which in many working-time rules counts in place of a written labor-management agreement.
対象労働者
A worker who does the planning, drafting, research and analysis work set out in Article 38-4, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Labor Standards Act and falls within the range of workers the labor-management committee (労使委員会) fixes by resolution under item (ii) of that paragraph, so that the hours that resolution sets count as the hours they worked.
対象労働者
A worker within the range of workers set by a workplace committee's resolution under Article 41-2, paragraph (1) of the Labor Standards Act: once such a worker has consented and is put on the covered work, that Act's rules on working hours, breaks, days off and late-night premium pay may cease to apply to them.
同項に規定する「対象労働者」
A resolution of a working-hours improvement committee (労働時間等設定改善委員会) — a committee for a single workplace that meets the requirements of Article 7 of the Act on Special Measures for Improvement of Working Hours Arrangements — which, when passed by at least four-fifths of its members, counts as the labor-management agreement (協定) that certain working-hours rules of the Labor Standards Act require.
The date Ordinance of the Ministry of Labour No. 25 of 1982, the amending Ordinance these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
The date Ordinance of the Ministry of Labour No. 4 of 1997, the amending Ordinance these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
The date on which Act No. 79 of 1993, which amended the Labor Standards Act and a temporary law on promoting shorter working hours, comes into effect.
The date Ordinance of the Ministry of Labour No. 49 of 2000, the amending Ordinance these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
The date Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare No. 34 of 2023, the amending Ordinance these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
A doctor working at a hospital, clinic, long-term care health facility or long-term care medical facility, subject to special overtime rules.
A money-transfer company designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as eligible to receive workers' wages digitally.
The period, of up to one year, over which working hours are averaged under a variable working-hours agreement (Labor Standards Act Article 32-4).
基準日
The base date as defined in Article 39, paragraph (7) of the Labor Standards Act: the first day of each one-year period of a worker's continuous service, counted from the day six months after hiring.
同条第七項の基準日
基準日
In the supplementary provisions of Ordinance of the Ministry of Labour (労働省令) No. 4 of 1997, the day after the end of the period of continuous service set in Article 39, paragraph (1) of the Labor Standards Act, which decides until when the paid leave (有給休暇) of a worker scheduled for at least 30 but under 35 hours a week still follows the old rules.
労働基準法（以下「法」という。）第三十九条第一項に定める継続勤務の期間の終了する日の翌日
基準日
In the supplementary provisions of Ordinance of the Ministry of Labour (労働省令) No. 51 of 1999, the fixed date of 31 March 2002, used to decide which working-hours rule applies in the week that includes it.
基準日
In the supplementary provisions of Ordinance of the Ministry of Labour (労働省令) No. 49 of 2000, the day after the end of the period of continuous service set in Article 39, paragraph (1) of the Labor Standards Act, which decides until when the paid leave (有給休暇) of a worker scheduled for under 30 hours a week still follows the old rules.
労働基準法（以下「法」という。）第三十九条第一項に定める継続勤務の期間の終了する日の翌日
口座
An account with a designated funds transfer service provider into which an employer can pay wages digitally.
訓練生
A worker receiving vocational training from an employer holding permission under Labor Standards Act Article 71.
A record made in electronic, magnetic or any other form people cannot perceive directly, for use in computer processing.
電子的方式、磁気的方式その他人の知覚によつては認識することができない方式で作られる記録であつて、電子計算機による情報処理の用に供されるもの
The Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act as it stood before the amendment these supplementary provisions belong to.
The Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act as it stood before the amendment these supplementary provisions belong to.
The forms as they stood before the Ministerial Ordinance (省令) these supplementary provisions belong to amended them; documents already in use on those forms count as being on the amended ones.
The forms as they stood before the Ministerial Ordinance (省令) these supplementary provisions belong to amended them; documents already in use on those forms count as being on the amended ones.
The Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act as it stood before the amendment these supplementary provisions belong to.
The forms as they stood before the Ministerial Ordinance (省令) these supplementary provisions belong to amended them; documents already in use on those forms count as being on the amended ones.
The ordinary cap on overtime under an Article 36 agreement: 45 hours a month and 360 hours a year.
代替休暇
Paid time off an employer may give instead of the higher premium owed for overtime beyond 60 hours a month.
The total time a worker under the highly-skilled professional system has spent working, both at the workplace and outside it, which the employer must track to look after the worker's health under Labor Standards Act Article 41-2, paragraph (1), item (iii).
同項第三号に規定する健康管理時間
A labor contract (労働契約) whose period of employment is fixed in advance, rather than one with no set term.
資金決済法
Short name for the Payment Services Act (Act No. 59 of 2009), which regulates prepaid payment instruments and money-transfer businesses.
第一基準日
The day, earlier than the base date (基準日) in Article 39, paragraph (7) of the Labor Standards Act, on which an employer grants a worker 10 or more working days of paid leave ahead of time; the employer must then set the timing of five of those days within one year of it.
The person a hospital, clinic or long-term care facility's founder appoints to run it.
A person chosen to represent a majority of a workplace's workers, where no majority union exists, to sign labor-management agreements.
Investment funds that mainly invest in securities, as defined in the Act on Investment Trusts and Investment Corporations.
Short name for the Act on Special Measures for Improvement of Working Hours Arrangements (Act No. 90 of 1992).
The record an employer must draw up for each worker, after giving annual paid leave under Article 39, paragraphs (5) to (7) of the Labor Standards Act, showing when the leave was taken, how many days it ran and the base date (基準日) it counts from, and must keep for five years after that leave period ends.
毎月勤労統計
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's monthly wage statistics, used to set the pay threshold for highly-skilled professionals.
The Labor Standards Act as it stood before the Act Partially Amending the Labor Standards Act (Act No. 112 of 1998) amended it.
労働契約法第十八条第一項の無期転換申込み
A worker's request, after more than five years of renewed fixed-term contracts with one employer, to switch to an open-ended contract.
A securities firm registered under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (Act No. 25 of 1948) to carry on Type I Financial Instruments Business, other than one limited to small-scale online offerings or to brokering unlisted securities, into whose deposit account a worker may have wages paid.
金融商品取引法（昭和二十三年法律第二十五号。以下「金商法」という。）第二条第九項に規定する金融商品取引業者（金商法第二十八条第一項に規定する第一種金融商品取引業を行う者に限り、金商法第二十九条の四の二第八項に規定する第一種少額電子募集取扱業者及び金商法第二十九条の四の四第七項に規定する非上場有価証券特例仲介等業者を除く。）
第二種資金移動業
The standard tier of money-transfer business under the Payment Services Act, handling transfers of up to one million yen each.
The rate used to work out how many hours of substitute leave (代替休暇) overtime beyond 60 hours in a month earns: the difference between the premium pay rate payable for those hours under the proviso to Article 37, paragraph (1) of the Labor Standards Act if the worker does not take the leave and the rate payable under the main clause of that paragraph if the worker does.
Broadcast programs as defined in Article 2, item (xxviii) of the Broadcasting Act — the kinds, content, amount and arrangement of what is broadcast; gathering and editing material to make them is one of the jobs that can be worked under discretionary working hours.
Any of three kinds of resolution of a labor-management committee (労使委員会): a resolution under Article 38-4, paragraph (1) of the Labor Standards Act, any other resolution of that committee, and one carried by four-fifths or more of its members under Article 25-2.
Where an employer grants 10 or more days of paid leave on an early date and again within a year, the period from that first grant date to one year after the second, within which the employer may spread the days of leave it must schedule for the worker.
基準日又は第一基準日を始期として、第二基準日から一年を経過する日を終期とする期間
第二基準日
A specific day within one year of the base date (基準日) or first base date (第一基準日) on which an employer grants a worker a new 10 or more working days of paid leave, which lets the employer set the timing of a proportionate number of leave days over one combined period ending one year after this day.
乗務員
Drivers, conductors, pilots and other staff who work aboard trains, motor vehicles, ships or aircraft.
昭和五十三年改正訓練規則
The Ministry of Labour ordinance (労働省令) No. 37 of 1978 that partly amended the enforcement ordinance for vocational training (職業訓練法施行規則); Article 2, paragraph (2) of its supplementary provisions allows a training period to be shortened.
Any application for permission, approval or designation, notification, or report an employer submits to a labor authority.
一般乗用旅客自動車運送事業
A taxi or hire-car business: carrying passengers in a vehicle hired as a whole under one contract, where the vehicle seats fewer than the number a Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism ordinance (省令) sets, as defined in Article 3, item (i)(c) of the Road Transportation Act (Act No. 183 of 1951).
道路運送法（昭和二十六年法律第百八十三号）第三条第一号ハの一般乗用旅客自動車運送事業
六箇月経過日
The day a worker's continuous employment passes six months from hiring, from which additional annual paid leave is counted.
処分等の行為
A permission or other administrative act made by a Director of a Prefectural Labor Standards Bureau or a prefectural governor under the laws, or the Cabinet Orders (政令) under them, as they stood before the decentralization reform law (地方分権推進整備法) came into effect, where that work passed to a Director of a Prefectural Labor Office; it is treated as made by that Director.
申請等の行為
An application for permission or other step made to a Director of a Prefectural Labor Standards Bureau or a prefectural governor under the laws, or the Cabinet Orders (政令) under them, as they stood before the decentralization reform law (地方分権推進整備法) came into effect, and still pending when it did, where that work passed to a Director of a Prefectural Labor Office; it is treated as made to that Director.
An order issued by the Headquarters for the Promotion of Central Government Reform, which prepared the 2001 reorganisation of ministries.
Each of the Ministerial Ordinances (省令) as it stood before the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Ordinance No. 203 of 2020 that these supplementary provisions belong to amended it; applications for permission or approval, notifications and reports made under them count as made under the amended ones.
The Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act as amended by Article 8 of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Ordinance No. 45 of 2024 that these supplementary provisions belong to.
Electrical voltage above 750 volts for direct current, or above 600 volts for alternating current, up to 7,000 volts.
直流にあつては七百五十ボルトを、交流にあつては六百ボルトをこえ、七千ボルト以下である電圧
電子メール等
Email or other telecommunications addressed to a specific recipient, usable to give workers written notice of their working conditions.
The most recent earlier averaging-period agreement from the past year, whose limits constrain the hours a new agreement may set.
A day before the normal base date on which an employer grants part of a worker's annual paid leave early.
A childcare worker recognised by the mayor of a municipality as suitable to look after infants and young children, as defined in Article 6-3, paragraph (9), item (i) of the Child Welfare Act (Act No. 164 of 1947).
同条第九項第一号に規定する家庭的保育者
A licensed labor and social security attorney, or a corporation of such attorneys, acting for an employer.
The ministerial ordinance these supplementary provisions belong to.
地方分権推進整備法
Short name for the decentralization reform law (地方分権の推進を図るための関係法律の整備等に関する法律) that these supplementary provisions name.
Penal detention (拘留) under Article 16 of the Penal Code as it stood before Article 2 of the 2022 Act amending the Penal Code and other laws (Act No. 67 of 2022) changed it.
Electrical voltage of 750 volts or less for direct current, or 600 volts or less for alternating current.
直流にあつては七百五十ボルト以下、交流にあつては六百ボルト以下である電圧