Whistleblower Protection Act
公益通報者保護法
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公益通報
A report made, not for a wrongful purpose such as gaining an unfair benefit or harming others, by one of the persons the items of Article 2, paragraph (1) list (workers, dispatched workers (派遣労働者) and officers (役員) among them), that a reportable fact (通報対象事実) has occurred or is about to occur at the business operator (事業者) the item names for that person, the recipient of services (役務提供先), or among its officers, employees, agents or others, made to that business operator or a person it designated in advance, to an administrative body (行政機関) with authority to make a disposition (処分) or recommendation about the fact or a person that body designated in advance, or to another person to whom reporting it is considered necessary to prevent it or the spread of the harm it causes.
次の各号に掲げる者が、不正の利益を得る目的、他人に損害を加える目的その他の不正の目的でなく、当該各号に定める事業者（法人その他の団体及び事業を行う個人をいう。以下同じ。）（以下「役務提供先」という。）又は当該役務提供先の事業に従事する場合におけるその役員（法人の取締役、執行役、会計参与、監査役、理事、監事及び清算人並びにこれら以外の者で法令（法律及び法律に基づく命令をいう。以下同じ。）の規定に基づき法人の経営に従事している者（会計監査人を除く。）をいう。以下同じ。）、従業員、代理人その他の者について通報対象事実が生じ、又はまさに生じようとしている旨を、当該役務提供先若しくは当該役務提供先があらかじめ定めた者（以下「役務提供先等」という。）、当該通報対象事実について処分（命令、取消しその他公権力の行使に当たる行為をいう。以下同じ。）若しくは勧告等（勧告その他処分に当たらない行為をいう。以下同じ。）をする権限を有する行政機関若しくは当該行政機関があらかじめ定めた者（次条第二号及び第六条第二号において「行政機関等」という。）又はその者に対し当該通報対象事実を通報することがその発生若しくはこれによる被害の拡大を防止するために必要であると認められる者（当該通報対象事実により被害を受け又は受けるおそれがある者を含み、当該役務提供先の競争上の地位その他正当な利益を害するおそれがある者を除く。次条第三号及び第六条第三号において同じ。）に通報すること
通報対象事実
A criminal act, or a fact that is grounds for a civil fine (過料), under this Act or one of the Acts listed in the Appended Table (別表) as Acts protecting people's life, body, property and other interests, such as consumers' interests, the environment and fair competition, including orders under them; or the facts that are the grounds for a disposition (処分) under an Act listed in the Appended Table, where breaching that disposition would be such a criminal act or ground for a fine, including, where that disposition was made for breaching another disposition or not following a recommendation, etc. (勧告等) under those Acts, the grounds for that other disposition or recommendation.
次の各号のいずれかの事実
A corporation or other organization, or an individual who carries on a business.
法人その他の団体及び事業を行う個人
公益通報者
A person who has made a whistleblowing report (公益通報), as Article 2, paragraph (1) defines it.
公益通報をした者
An order, a revocation or another act by which public authority is exercised.
命令、取消しその他公権力の行使に当たる行為
A recommendation, or any other act that is not a disposition (処分, an order, revocation or other exercise of public authority).
勧告その他処分に当たらない行為
The following bodies: the Cabinet Office (内閣府), the Imperial Household Agency (宮内庁), the commissions and agencies placed within it under Article 49, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Act for Establishment of the Cabinet Office, the Digital Agency (デジタル庁), the ministries, commissions and agencies provided for in Article 3, paragraph (2) of the National Government Organization Act, the bodies placed under the Cabinet's jurisdiction (内閣の所轄) by an Act (法律), the bodies placed within any of these, and officials of these bodies whom an Act allows to exercise authority independently; and the organs of local governments (地方公共団体) other than their assemblies (議会). Until the Reconstruction Agency (復興庁) is abolished, Article 3, paragraph (1) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of the Act that set up that Agency (Act No. 125 of 2011) reads the list with the Reconstruction Agency added after the Digital Agency.
次に掲げる機関
The business operator (事業者) that the items of Article 2, paragraph (1) name for each kind of whistleblower, such as the business that employs a worker, or receives a dispatched worker's (派遣労働者) services, now or within one year before the report, or the business whose duties an officer (役員) performs, concerning which, or whose officers, employees, agents or others, a whistleblowing report (公益通報) is made.
The recipient of services (役務提供先), the business operator (事業者) a whistleblowing report (公益通報) concerns, or a person that business operator designated in advance.
労働者
A worker as Article 9 of the Labor Standards Act defines one: a person, in any kind of occupation, who is employed at a business or office and is paid wages.
労働基準法（昭和二十二年法律第四十九号）第九条に規定する労働者
派遣労働者
A dispatched worker as defined in Article 2, item (ii) of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers (Act No. 88 of 1985): a worker employed by an employer (事業主) who is the subject of worker dispatch (労働者派遣).
労働者派遣事業の適正な運営の確保及び派遣労働者の保護等に関する法律（昭和六十年法律第八十八号。第四条において「労働者派遣法」という。）第二条第二号に規定する派遣労働者
In Article 11, the guidelines the Prime Minister (内閣総理大臣) sets for the proper and effective carrying out of the measures business operators (事業者) must take under Article 11, paragraphs (1) and (2): designating persons to handle whistleblowing (公益通報) and setting up the systems needed to deal with it.
The Acts (法律) amended by Act No. 36 of 2021, and the orders made under them, as that Act amended them.
The Acts (法律) amended by Act No. 36 of 2021, and the orders made under them, as they stood before that Act amended them.
In Articles 3 and 6, an administrative body (行政機関) with authority to make a disposition (処分) or a recommendation, etc. (勧告等) about the reportable fact (通報対象事実) concerned, or a person that body designated in advance.
労働者派遣
Worker dispatch as defined in Article 2, item (i) of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers (Act No. 88 of 1985): having workers one employs work under another person's direction and orders, and for that person, while they stay in one's own employment, not counting an arrangement made with that other person for it to employ the workers.
同条第一号に規定する労働者派遣
労働者派遣法
Short name, used in Article 4, for the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers (Act No. 88 of 1985).
In Article 6, investigating a reportable fact (通報対象事実) and taking the measures needed to correct it, with the care of a prudent manager (善良な管理者の注意).
善良な管理者と同一の注意をもって行う、通報対象事実の調査及びその是正のために必要な措置
In Article 12, the work of receiving whistleblowing (公益通報) made to the business operator (事業者) or to a person it designated in advance, as Articles 3 and 6 describe it, investigating the reportable fact (通報対象事実) it concerns, and taking the measures needed to correct it.
In Article 12, a person a business operator (事業者) designates under Article 11, paragraph (1) to do its operations to respond to whistleblowing (公益通報対応業務): receiving whistleblowing (公益通報) made to the business operator or to a person it designated in advance, investigating the reportable fact (通報対象事実) it concerns, and taking the measures needed to correct it.
In Article 9, regular service national public employees (一般職の国家公務員), court officials to whom the Act on Temporary Measures concerning Court Officials applies, Diet officers to whom the Diet Officers Act applies, Self-Defense Forces personnel (隊員) as defined in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Self-Defense Forces Act, and regular service local public employees (一般職の地方公務員), for whom the ban on dismissal and other disadvantageous treatment for making the whistleblowing (公益通報) Article 3 describes rests on the National Public Service Act, the Diet Officers Act, the Self-Defense Forces Act and the Local Public Service Act instead of Articles 3 to 5.