①The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may give advice, guidance, or recommendations to employers, if the Minister finds it necessary to do so in connection with the enforcement of this Act.

②In the case where the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has given recommendations under the provisions of the preceding paragraph to an employer that has violated any of the provisions of Article 30-2, paragraphs (1) and (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 30-5, paragraph (2) and Article 30-6, paragraph (2); the same applies in Article 35 and Article 36, paragraph (1)), and if the employer that has received the recommendations has not complied with these recommendations, the Minister may make this public.

①To the extent necessary to enforce the provisions of Article 27, paragraph (1) and Article 28, paragraph (1), the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, order an employer to report on the employment status of workers and on other particulars, and may have the ministry personnel enter an employer's place of business in order to ask questions of relevant persons or inspect the employer's books, documents, and other articles.

②The personnel who conducts on-site inspections pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must carry an identification card and present it to the persons concerned.

③The authority to conduct an on-site inspection pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) must not be construed as being granted for the purpose of criminal investigation.

The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may request an employer to submit necessary materials and to give explanations if the Minister finds them necessary for the enforcement of this Act (excluding Article 27, paragraph (1), Article 28, paragraph (1), and Article 30-2, paragraphs (1) and (2)).

①The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may request an employer to report on particulars necessary for the enforcement of the provisions of Article 30-2, paragraphs (1) and (2).

②A prefectural governor or the head of a public employment security office may request a person that is receiving or has received job-change benefits to report on necessary particulars concerning the payment of those job-change benefits.

①Part of the authority of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as prescribed in this Act may be delegated to the directors of the prefectural labor bureau pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

②The authority delegated to the director of a prefectural labor bureau pursuant to the provisions of the immediately preceding paragraph may be delegated to the head of the public employment security office, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

①The provisions of this Act (excluding Article 1, Article 4, paragraph (1), item (xv), paragraph (2), and paragraph (4), Chapter X (excluding Articles 30-7 and 30-8), Article 33, Article 36, paragraph (1), paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, and Article 41) do not apply to mariners prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Mariners' Employment Security Act (Act No. 130 of 1948) (hereinafter referred to as "mariners" in the following paragraph).

②With respect to mariners, the term "Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare" in Article 30-2, paragraphs (3) through (5), Article 33, Article 36, paragraph (1), and paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is deemed to be replaced with "Minister for Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism"; the term "Labor Policy Council" in Article 30-2, paragraph (4) is deemed to be replaced with "Council for Transport Policy"; the term "through Article 30-8" in Article 30-4 is deemed to be replaced with "Article 30-6, and Article 38, paragraph (3)"; the term "director of the relevant prefectural labor bureau" in Article 30-5, paragraph (1), Article 30-6, paragraph (1), and paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is deemed to be replaced with "district transport bureau chief (including the chief of the maritime traffic control division)"; the term "the dispute coordinating committee referred to in Article 6, paragraph (1)" in Article 30-6, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "a conciliator appointed from among those listed in the mediator candidate list set forth in Article 21, paragraph (3)"; the term "Article 35 and Article 36, paragraph (1)" in Article 33, paragraph (2) is deemed to be replaced with "Article 36, paragraph (1)"; and the term "Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare" in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is deemed to be replaced with "Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism."

③The provisions of Articles 20 through 27 and Article 31, paragraphs (3) and (4) of the Act on Securing, Etc. of Equal Opportunity and Treatment between Men and Women in Employment apply mutatis mutandis to conciliation conducted by a conciliator appointed pursuant to the provisions of Article 30-6, paragraph (1) applied following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to the preceding paragraph. In this case, the term "Commission" in Articles 20 through 23 and Article 26 of the same Act is deemed to be replaced with "conciliator"; the term "workplace" in Article 20 of the same Act is deemed to be replaced with "place of business"; the term "Prefectural Labor Office where the relevant Commission is established" in Article 21 of the same Act is deemed to be replaced with "district transport bureau (including the maritime traffic control division) to which the district transport bureau chief (including the chief of the maritime traffic control division) who appointed the conciliator is assigned"; the term "Article 18, paragraph 1" in Article 25, paragraph (1) of the same Act is deemed to be replaced with "Article 30-4 of the Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures, and Stabilizing the Employment of Workers, and Enriching Workers' Vocational Lives (Act No. 132 of 1966)"; the term "pending before the Commission" in Article 26 of the Act on Securing, Etc. of Equal Opportunity and Treatment between Men and Women in Employment is deemed to be replaced with "being handled by the conciliator"; the terms "this section," "Conciliation," and "Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare" in Article 27 of the same Act are deemed to be replaced with "Article 20 through the preceding Article and Article 31, paragraphs (3) and (4) applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 38, paragraph (3) of the Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures, and Stabilizing the Employment of Workers, and Enriching Workers' Vocational Lives" "council and Conciliation," and "Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism," respectively; and the term "preceding paragraph" in Article 31, paragraph (3) of the Act on Securing, Etc. of Equal Opportunity and Treatment between Men and Women in Employment is deemed to be replaced with "Article 30-6, paragraph (1) of the Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures, and Stabilizing the Employment of Workers, and Enriching Workers' Vocational Lives."

The provisions of Articles 6 through 9, Chapter VI (excluding Article 27), Chapter VII, Articles 30-4 through 30-8, Article 33, paragraph (1) (limited to the part pertaining to the enforcement of the provisions of Chapter X), paragraph (2), and Article 36, paragraph (1) do not apply to national public employees and local public employees; the provisions of Chapter VIII and Articles 30-2 and 30-3 do not apply to national public employees in the regular service (excluding employees falling under Article 2, item (ii) of the Act on Labor Relations of Agency Engaged in Administrative Execution (Act No. 257 of 1948)), court officials to whom the Act on Temporary Measures concerning Court Officials (Act No. 299 of 1951) applies, the Diet officers prescribed in Article 1 of the Diet Officers Act (Act No. 85 of 1947), and the personnel prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Self-Defense Forces Act (Act No. 165 of 1954).

A person that has violated the provisions of Article 32, paragraph (4) is punished by imprisonment for a term of not more than six months or a fine of not more than 500,000 yen.

①A person falling under any of the following items is punished by a fine of not more than 300,000 yen:

②If a representative of a corporation, or an agent, employee, or other worker of a corporation or individual, commits a violation referred to in the preceding paragraph in connection with the operations of the corporation or individual, in addition to the offender being subject to punishment, the corporation or individual is subject to the punishment referred to in the same paragraph.

A person that has failed to submit a report under the provisions of Article 36, paragraph (1) or that has submitted a false report is punished by a fine of not more than 200,000 yen.