If there is a factual circumstance in the workplace that violates the provisions of this Act or an order issued under this Act, a person engaged in work may report that factual circumstance to the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau or Chief of the Labour Standard Inspection Offices or to the labor standards inspector and request that appropriate action be taken to rectify it.
作業従事者は、事業場にこの法律又はこれに基づく命令の規定に違反する事実があるときは、その事実を都道府県労働局長、労働基準監督署長又は労働基準監督官に申告して是正のため適当な措置をとるように求めることができる。
An employer must not dismiss a worker or otherwise subject a worker to disadvantageous treatment for having a report as referred to in the preceding paragraph.
An orderer, lessor of machinery or other such equipment, or any other person that is a counterparty to a contract with a person conducting a business involving a person engaged in work as referred to in paragraph (1) must not subject the person conducting the business to suspension of transactions or other disadvantageous treatment on the grounds that a report as referred to in that paragraph has been made.
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