Labor Union Act
労働組合法
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. 41 terms: 15 with the Ministry of Justice's English, 26 in our translation, marked as such.
委員
In Articles 19-4 to 19-9 of this Act, a member of the Central Labour Relations Commission (中央労働委員会).
労働組合
An organization, or a federation of organizations, that workers form on their own initiative and mainly run themselves, with the main aim of keeping up and improving working conditions and otherwise raising their economic standing — but not one that lets officers, supervisors with direct say over hiring, firing, promotion or transfers, or others who represent the employer's interests take part, one that has the employer pay its running costs (beyond paid time for talks with the employer, gifts to welfare funds and a minimal office), one that exists only for mutual aid or other welfare work, or one aimed mainly at political or social movements.
労働者が主体となつて自主的に労働条件の維持改善その他経済的地位の向上を図ることを主たる目的として組織する団体又はその連合団体
A member of a Labour Relations Commission (労働委員会) who represents the public interest; each commission has equal numbers of these, of members representing employers and of members representing workers.
労働者
Anyone, whatever their occupation, who lives on wages, a salary or other income of a similar kind.
職業の種類を問わず、賃金、給料その他これに準ずる収入によつて生活する者
A member of the staff of a Labour Relations Commission (労働委員会).
The order a Labour Relations Commission (労働委員会) issues once a case is ready for decision, based on the facts it has found: one granting all or part of the relief (救済) the applicant asked for, or one dismissing the application.
使用者委員
A member of a Labour Relations Commission (労働委員会) who represents employers; each commission has equal numbers of these, of members representing workers and of members representing the public interest.
労働者委員
A member of a Labour Relations Commission (労働委員会) who represents workers; each commission has equal numbers of these, of members representing employers and of members representing the public interest.
物件
Books, documents and other items connected with a case that a Labour Relations Commission (労働委員会) finds it would probably be hard to establish the facts they bear on without.
The handling of unfair labor practice cases (不当労働行為事件) under Article 7 and Sections 2 and 3 of Chapter IV of this Act.
第七条、次節及び第三節の規定による事件の処理
The handling of unfair labor practice cases (不当労働行為事件) under Article 7 and Sections 2 and 3 of Chapter IV of this Act.
物件提出命令
An order by which a Labour Relations Commission (労働委員会), under Article 27-7(1)(ii), requires whoever holds books, documents or other items needed to establish the facts of a case to hand them over.
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 104 of 1999, a state-owned enterprise (国営企業) as defined in Article 2, item 1 of the Act those supplementary provisions call 新国労法 (the new National Enterprise Labor Relations Act): Act No. 257 of 1948 as Article 24 of Act No. 104 of 1999 amended it.
新国労法第二条第一号に規定する国営企業
In Article 19-3(2), Article 19-4(2)(ii) and Article 19-10(1), an incorporated administrative agency (独立行政法人) of the kind Article 2(4) of the Act on General Rules for Incorporated Administrative Agencies defines: one set up by its own Act to carry out, accurately and reliably, public work closely tied to the national government's administration under substantial government involvement, against a plan for targets the government sets for each business year.
独立行政法人通則法（平成十一年法律第百三号）第二条第四項に規定する行政執行法人
In Chapter IV of this Act, a national public employee in the regular service (一般職) who works at an agency engaged in administrative execution (行政執行法人), as Article 2, item 2 of the Act on Labor Relations of Agency Engaged in Administrative Execution (Act No. 257 of 1948) defines such employees (職員).
This Act as amended by Act No. 140 of 2004.
An order by which a Labour Relations Commission (労働委員会), under Article 27-7(1)(i), requires a party or a witness to appear before it.
In Article 27-10, an order requiring a party or a witness to appear, or requiring books, documents or other items to be handed over: paragraph (1) defines it as a Prefectural Labour Relations Commission's (都道府県労働委員会), and paragraph (3) uses it for the Central Labour Relations Commission's (中央労働委員会).
In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 26 of 2008, the Acts (法律) that Act No. 26 of 2008 amended, as it amended them, together with the orders made under them.
In Article 28 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 67 of 2014, the Acts (法律) that Act No. 67 of 2014 amended, as it amended them, together with the orders made under them.
A petition, request for examination, objection or other administrative appeal filed under the old appeal system.
In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 104 of 1999, the day on which the number of members of the Central Labour Relations Commission (中央労働委員会) reaches the number set in Article 19-3(1) of this Act as amended by Article 25 of Act No. 104 of 1999.
Short name, in Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 104 of 1999, for the Act on Labor Relations of Agency Engaged in Administrative Execution (Act No. 257 of 1948), then under an earlier title, as amended by Article 24 of Act No. 104 of 1999.
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 Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 26 of 2008, the Acts (法律) that Act No. 26 of 2008 amended, as they stood before it amended them, together with the orders made under them.
A ruling, decision or other disposition on an administrative appeal.
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.
新労働組合法
In Article 5 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 26 of 2008, the Labor Union Act as amended by Article 7 of that Act.
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.
In Article 3(1) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 82 of 1988, the rules of procedure that the Central Labour Relations Commission (中央労働委員会) makes under Article 26 of this Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 82 of 1988.
In Article 3(1) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 82 of 1988, the rules of procedure that the Central Labour Relations Commission (中央労働委員会) had made under Article 26 of this Act as it stood before Article 1 of Act No. 82 of 1988 amended it, and that were in force when that Act came into effect.
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.
個別法が成立している特定独立行政法人
In Article 2(3) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 104 of 1999, a specified incorporated administrative agency (特定独立行政法人) as Article 2(2) of the Act on General Rules for Incorporated Administrative Agencies (Act No. 103 of 1999) then defined it, whose own Act (個別法, individual Act), referred to in Article 1(1) of that Act, had already been passed when the Act on General Rules for Incorporated Administrative Agencies came into effect.
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.
Short name for the Act Partially Amending the Civil Code, etc. (Act No. 45 of 2026).