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The head of the labor standards inspection office with jurisdiction over where the workplace is located.
A decision adopted by a labor-management committee, which in many working-time rules counts in place of a written labor-management agreement.
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.
有価証券
In Article 7-2, paragraph (1), item (ii), (b), (2), the securities listed in (i) to (xiii) of (1) — among them national and local government bonds (国債証券, 地方債証券), corporate bonds other than bonds with share options (新株予約権付社債券), certain promissory notes a company issues to raise funds for its business, and interests in trusts of banks' loan claims, mostly named by the items of Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — which, with deposits, bills, designated money trusts (指定金銭信託) and call loans (コールローン), are all that a securities investment trust (証券投資信託) that a worker's wages, paid into a deposit with a securities firm (金融商品取引業者), may be used to buy may invest in.
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 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.
A workplace committee of employer and worker representatives under Labor Standards Act Article 38-4 whose resolutions can replace labor-management agreements.
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.
訓練生
A worker receiving vocational training from an employer holding permission under Labor Standards Act Article 71.
口座
An account with a designated funds transfer service provider into which an employer can pay 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).
代替休暇
Paid time off an employer may give instead of the higher premium owed for overtime beyond 60 hours a month.
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 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
This Ministerial Order as amended by Ministry of Labour Order No. 31 of 1987.
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.
The ordinary cap on overtime under an Article 36 agreement: 45 hours a month and 360 hours a year.
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
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.
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.
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.
In Article 7-2, paragraph (1), item (ii), (b), (3) and (4), the securities, deposits, bills (手形), designated money trusts (指定金銭信託) and call loans (コールローン) in which a securities investment trust (証券投資信託) that a worker's wages, paid into a deposit with a securities firm (金融商品取引業者), may be used to buy invests, each of which must be redeemed or mature within one year.
Short name for the Act on Special Measures for Improvement of Working Hours Arrangements (Act No. 90 of 1992).
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.
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 date Ministry of Labour Order No. 25 of 1982, the amending Ministerial Order these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
This Ministerial Order as amended by Ministry of Labour Order No. 4 of 1997.
The Labor Standards Act as it stood before the Act Partially Amending the Labor Standards Act (Act No. 112 of 1998) amended it.
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.
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。）
残存期間
In Article 7-2, paragraph (1), item (ii), (b), (3), the time left until a security, deposit, bill, designated money trust (指定金銭信託) or call loan (コールローン) held by a securities investment trust (証券投資信託) that a worker's wages, paid into a deposit with a securities firm (金融商品取引業者), may be used to buy is redeemed or matures, which must be no more than one year for each and, averaged by the amount of each held, no more than 90 days.
In Article 7-2, paragraph (1), item (ii), (b), (5), a single corporation or other organisation (法人その他の団体), for which (5) limits the specified call loans (特定コールローン) it handles to 25% of the total assets of a securities investment trust (証券投資信託) that a worker's wages, paid into a deposit with a securities firm (金融商品取引業者), may be used to buy.
特定コールローン
In Article 7-2, paragraph (1), item (ii), (b), (5), a call loan (コールローン) held by a securities investment trust (証券投資信託) that a worker's wages, paid into a deposit with a securities firm (金融商品取引業者), may be used to buy that is to be repaid within five days, not counting days on which the company that makes the loan as the trust's trustee is closed for business.
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.
In Article 25-2, paragraph (3), the period of up to one month over which, for workers left to decide when they start and finish work in the small businesses of paragraph (1) of that Article, working hours are averaged so that they do not exceed 44 hours a week.
その期間を平均し一週間当たりの労働時間が四十四時間を超えない範囲内において労働させる期間をいい、一箇月以内の期間に限るものとする
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 Order (労働省令) No. 37 of 1978 that partly amended the enforcement rules 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.
Short name for the Act on the Advancement of Government Administration Processes That Utilize Information and Communications Technology (Act No. 151 of 2002).
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 Order (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
In Article 69-2 and Article 69-3, paragraph (2), item (ii) of the supplementary provisions (附則), an integrated facility for medical and long-term care as defined in Article 8, paragraph (29) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act: a facility licensed by the prefectural governor under Article 107, paragraph (1) of that Act to give medical management, nursing, care under medical supervision, functional training, other necessary medical care and help with daily life, under a facility service plan (施設サービス計画), to people requiring long-term care (要介護者) who mainly need medical care over a long period, and whose need for treatment is of the degree a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets.
同法第八条第二十九項に規定する介護医療院
介護老人保健施設
In Article 69-2 and Article 69-3, paragraph (2), item (ii) of the supplementary provisions (附則), a long-term care health facility as defined in Article 8, paragraph (28) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act: a facility licensed by the prefectural governor under Article 94, paragraph (1) of that Act to give nursing, care under medical supervision, functional training, other necessary medical care and help with daily life, under a facility service plan (施設サービス計画), to people requiring long-term care (要介護者) who mainly need support to maintain and restore their physical and mental functions so that they can live at home, and whose need for treatment is of the degree a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets.
介護保険法（平成九年法律第百二十三号）第八条第二十八項に規定する介護老人保健施設
病院
In Article 69-2 and Article 69-3, paragraph (2), item (ii) of the supplementary provisions (附則), a hospital as defined in Article 1-5, paragraph (1) of the Medical Care Act: a place where a doctor or dentist practises medicine or dentistry for the public or for a particular group of many people and which has facilities for admitting 20 or more inpatients.
医療法（昭和二十三年法律第二百五号）第一条の五第一項に規定する病院
診療所
In Article 69-2 and Article 69-3, paragraph (2), item (ii) of the supplementary provisions (附則), a clinic as defined in Article 1-5, paragraph (2) of the Medical Care Act: a place where a doctor or dentist practises medicine or dentistry for the public or for a particular group of many people and which either has no facilities for admitting inpatients (and is not a facility for receiving online medical consultations (オンライン診療受診施設)) or has facilities for 19 or fewer.
同法第一条の五第二項に規定する診療所
This Ministerial Order as amended by Ministry of Labour Order No. 1 of 1994.
基準日
In the supplementary provisions of Ministry of Labour Order (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
The date Ministry of Labour Order No. 4 of 1997, the amending Ministerial Order these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
This Ministerial Order as amended by Ministry of Labour Order No. 13 of 1998.
This Ministerial Order as it stood before Ministry of Labour Order No. 13 of 1998 amended it.
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.
This Ministerial Order as amended by Ministry of Labour Order No. 28 of 1999.
基準日
In the supplementary provisions of Ministry of Labour Order (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.
This Ministerial Order as amended by Ministry of Labour Order No. 51 of 1999.
処分等の行為
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Ministry of Labour Order No. 2 of 2000, a permission or other disposition (処分), or another act, done under a law's provisions or a Cabinet Order (政令) under it. Article 2 treats such an act that a Director of a Prefectural Labor Standards Bureau (都道府県労働基準局長) or a prefectural governor (都道府県知事) did before the decentralization reform law (地方分権推進整備法) came into effect, where the work it concerns is to be handled from that day by the Director of a Prefectural Labor Bureau (都道府県労働局長) under the laws as that law amended them or Ministry of Labour Orders (労働省令) under them, as done by the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau under their corresponding provisions.
申請等の行為
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Ministry of Labour Order No. 2 of 2000, an application for a permission or the like, or another act, made to an official under a law's provisions or a Cabinet Order (政令) under it. Article 2 treats such an application or act made to a Director of a Prefectural Labor Standards Bureau (都道府県労働基準局長) or a prefectural governor (都道府県知事) and still pending when the decentralization reform law (地方分権推進整備法) came into effect, where the work it concerns is to be handled from that day by the Director of a Prefectural Labor Bureau (都道府県労働局長) under the laws as that law amended them or Ministry of Labour Orders (労働省令) under them, as made to the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau under their corresponding provisions.
An order issued by the Headquarters for the Promotion of Central Government Reform, which prepared the 2001 reorganisation of ministries.
This Ministerial Order as amended by Ministry of Labour Order No. 49 of 2000.
The forms as they stood before the Ministerial Order (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 Order (省令) these supplementary provisions belong to amended them; documents already in use on those forms count as being on the amended ones.
Each of the Ministerial Orders (省令) as it stood before the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order 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.
This Ministerial Order as amended by Article 1 of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 39 of 2023.
This Ministerial Order as it stood before Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 39 of 2023 amended it.
The Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act as amended by Article 8 of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 45 of 2024 that these supplementary provisions belong to.
The forms as they stood before the Ministerial Order (省令) these supplementary provisions belong to amended them; documents already in use on those forms count as being on the amended ones.
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.
This Ministerial Order as amended by Ministry of Labour Order No. 17 of 1964.
This Ministerial Order as amended by Ministry of Labour Order No. 4 of 1965.
This Ministerial Order as amended by Ministry of Labour Order No. 13 of 1965.
This Ministerial Order as amended by Ministry of Labour Order No. 21 of 1966.
This Ministerial Order as amended by Ministry of Labour Order No. 8 of 1967.
This Ministerial Order as amended by Ministry of Labour Order No. 2 of 1968.
The Ministerial Order these supplementary provisions belong to.
This Ministerial Order as it stood before Ministry of Labour Order No. 28 of 1999 amended it.
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.
基準日
In the supplementary provisions of Ministry of Labour Order (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
The date Ministry of Labour Order No. 49 of 2000, the amending Ministerial Order these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
The date Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 34 of 2023, the amending Ministerial Order these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
A resolution adopted by a four-fifths majority of the labor-management committee under Labor Standards Act Article 38-4, paragraph (1).
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
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