This Act comes into effect as of the day specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding one year from the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect as of the days specified in those items.

The formulation of the guidelines prescribed in Article 30-2, paragraph (3) of the Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures, and Stabilizing the Employment of Workers, and Enriching Workers' Vocational Lives as amended by Article 3 (hereinafter referred to as the "new Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures") (including as applied by replacing terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 38, paragraph (2) of the new Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures), and the procedures and other acts necessary in connection therewith, may be carried out even before this Act comes into effect, in accordance with the provisions of Article 30-2, paragraphs (3) through (5) of the new Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures (including as those provisions are applied by replacing terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 38, paragraph (2) of the new Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures).

With regard to a small and medium-sized employer (meaning an employer other than the national government, a local government, or an agency engaged in administrative execution, whose amount of stated capital or total amount of contributions is 300 million yen or less (50 million yen or less for an employer whose principal business is retail or services, and 100 million yen or less for an employer whose principal business is wholesale), and an employer other than the national government, a local government, or an agency engaged in administrative execution, whose number of regularly employed workers is 300 or less (50 or less for an employer whose principal business is retail, and 100 or less for an employer whose principal business is wholesale or services); the same applies in paragraph (2) of the following Article), until the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding three years from the date of promulgation, the term "must take" in Article 30-2, paragraph (1) of the new Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures (including as applied by replacing terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 47-4 of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers as amended by Article 5; the same applies in paragraph (2) of the following Article) is deemed to be replaced with "must endeavor to take"; the term "Article 30-2, paragraphs (1) and (2)" in Article 30-4, Article 33, paragraph (2), and Article 36, paragraph (1) of the new Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures (including as those provisions are applied by replacing terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 38, paragraph (2) of the new Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures) is deemed to be replaced with "Article 30-2, paragraph (2)"; and the term "and Article 30-2, paragraphs (1) and (2)" in Article 35 of the new Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures is deemed to be replaced with "and Article 30-2, paragraph (2)".

①With regard to a dispute pertaining to conciliation under Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Act on Promoting the Resolution of Individual Labor-Related Disputes (Act No. 112 of 2001) (including as applied by replacing terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 21, paragraph (1) of that Act; the same applies in the following paragraph) that is actually pending, at the time this Act comes into effect, before the dispute coordinating committee referred to in Article 6, paragraph (1) of that Act or a conciliator appointed pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of that Act as applied by replacing terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 21, paragraph (1) of that Act, and that falls under a dispute prescribed in Article 30-4 of the new Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures (including as applied by replacing terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 38, paragraph (2) of the new Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures and the preceding Article; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph), the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 30-4 of the new Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures.

②With regard to a dispute pertaining to conciliation under Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Act on Promoting the Resolution of Individual Labor-Related Disputes that is actually pending, on the date specified by Cabinet Order referred to in the preceding Article, before the dispute coordinating committee referred to in Article 6, paragraph (1) of that Act or a conciliator appointed pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of that Act as applied by replacing terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 21, paragraph (1) of that Act, and that falls under a dispute between a worker and a small and medium-sized employer with respect to the particulars prescribed in Article 30-2, paragraph (1) of the new Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 30-4 of the new Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures (including as applied by replacing terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 38, paragraph (2) of the new Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures).

With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act comes into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

In addition to what is provided for in these Supplementary Provisions, the transitional measures necessary in connection with the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order.

The Government is to, in the case where five years have passed after this Act comes into effect, review the state of enforcement of the provisions as amended by this Act, and, when it finds it necessary, take the required measures based on the results of that review.