Act on Improvement of Personnel Management and Conversion of Employment Status for Part-Time Workers and Fixed-Term Workers

有期雇用労働者（ゆうきこようろうどうしゃ）

A worker whose labour contract with their employer is for a fixed period.

事業主と期間の定めのある労働契約を締結している労働者

短時間・有期雇用労働者（たんじかん・ゆうきこようろうどうしゃ）

A worker who is either a part-time worker (短時間労働者) or a fixed-term worker (有期雇用労働者).

短時間労働者及び有期雇用労働者

雇用管理の改善等（こようかんりのかいぜんとう）

Improving how an employer manages its part-time and fixed-term workers — proper working conditions, training, welfare benefits and the like — and furthering their conversion into workers with a standard employment status (通常の労働者), meaning their being hired as such at the workplace where they are employed.

短時間労働者（たんじかんろうどうしゃ）

A worker whose prescribed weekly working hours are shorter than those of the employer's workers with a standard employment status (通常の労働者) — or, where the worker does the same kind of work as some of those workers, shorter than theirs, except in cases a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets.

一週間の所定労働時間が同一の事業主に雇用される通常の労働者（当該事業主に雇用される通常の労働者と同種の業務に従事する当該事業主に雇用される労働者にあっては、厚生労働省令で定める場合を除き、当該労働者と同種の業務に従事する当該通常の労働者）の一週間の所定労働時間に比し短い労働者

短時間・有期雇用労働者対策基本方針（たんじかん・ゆうきこようろうどうしゃたいさくきほんほうしん）

The basic policy the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare sets for measures to improve the personnel management and conversion of employment status of part-time and fixed-term workers, develop their vocational abilities and otherwise promote their welfare.

新法（しんぽう）

This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 72 of 2007.

旧短時間労働援助センター（きゅうたんじかんろうどうえんじょせんたー）

The body that, on 1 July 2007 when Article 1 of Act No. 72 of 2007, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to came into effect, held a designation under Article 13, paragraph (1) of this Act as it stood before that amendment; it is treated as designated under the amended Article 13, paragraph (1).

職務の内容（しょくむのないよう）

The substance of a worker's duties together with the level of responsibility those duties carry — one of the things an employer must weigh when comparing the treatment of its part-time and fixed-term workers with that of its workers with a standard employment status (通常の労働者).

旧法（きゅうほう）

This Act as it stood before Article 1 of Act No. 72 of 2007 amended it.

特定事項（とくていじこう）

The working conditions, specified by a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令), that an employer must make clear to a part-time or fixed-term worker it hires, other than those the Order specifies under Article 15, paragraph (1) of the Labor Standards Act.

通常の労働者と同視すべき短時間・有期雇用労働者（つうじょうのろうどうしゃとどうしすべきたんじかん・ゆうきこようろうどうしゃ）

A part-time or fixed-term worker (短時間・有期雇用労働者) who does the same job as the employer's regular workers (通常の労働者) and whose job and assignment are expected, judging by the workplace's practice and other circumstances, to change within the same range as theirs for the whole time they are employed, and whom the employer may not discriminate against in base pay, bonuses or any other treatment because they are part-time or fixed-term.

指針（ししん）

The guidelines the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare sets so that employers carry out properly and effectively the measures in Articles 6 to 14 and the other measures for improving the personnel management and conversion of employment status of their part-time and fixed-term workers.

短時間・有期雇用労働法（たんじかん・ゆうきこようろうどうほう）

This Act as amended by Article 7 of Act No. 71 of 2018.

文書の交付等（ぶんしょのこうふとう）

Handing the worker a document, or using another method a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets — the ways an employer must make the specified particulars (特定事項) of their working conditions clear to a part-time or fixed-term worker it has hired.

職務内容同一短時間・有期雇用労働者（しょくむないようどういつたんじかん・ゆうきこようろうどうしゃ）

A part-time or fixed-term worker whose job description (職務の内容: their duties and the responsibility those carry) is the same as that of a worker with a standard employment status (通常の労働者).

旧短時間労働者法（きゅうたんじかんろうどうしゃほう）

This Act as it stood before Act No. 30 of 2007 amended it.

新短時間労働援助センター（しんたんじかんろうどうえんじょせんたー）

The Part-Time Work Assistance Center (短時間労働援助センター) provided for in Article 13, paragraph (2) of this Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 72 of 2007, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to; acts done by or to the former center before 1 July 2007 are, with some filings and approvals excepted, treated as done by or to it.

給付金支給事業（きゅうふきんしきゅうじぎょう）

The business of paying the benefits (給付金) for employers and employers' organisations under this Act's former Article 16, paragraph (1) that Article 112, paragraph (2) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 30 of 2007) keeps under the former rules, counted within the business whose costs the premiums collected under Article 10, paragraph (1) of the Act on the Collection, etc. of Insurance Premiums of Labor Insurance cover.

改正後の各法律（かいせいごのかくほうりつ）

Each of the laws as amended by the amending Act these supplementary provisions belong to.