The Director-General of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's Women's Management Bureau (meaning the director of an internal bureau established within the ministry that is responsible for affairs regarding labor issues associated with the unique characteristics of female workers; the same applies below), under the direction and supervision of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, administers particulars relating to the establishment, amendment, repeal and interpretation of special provisions in this Act relating to women, and advises the Director-General of the Labor Standards Management Bureau, and the directors of the government agencies subordinate to that Bureau, and assists in the direction and supervision of those subordinate government agencies by the Director-General of the Labor Standards Management Bureau, in connection with particulars concerning the enforcement of those provisions.
厚生労働省の女性主管局長（厚生労働省の内部部局として置かれる局で女性労働者の特性に係る労働問題に関する事務を所掌するものの局長をいう。以下同じ。）は、厚生労働大臣の指揮監督を受けて、この法律中女性に特殊の規定の制定、改廃及び解釈に関する事項をつかさどり、その施行に関する事項については、労働基準主管局長及びその下級の官庁の長に勧告を行うとともに、労働基準主管局長が、その下級の官庁に対して行う指揮監督について援助を与える。
The Director-General of the Women's Management Bureau may view documents related to inspections and other things that the Labor Standards Management Bureau, the government agencies subordinate to that Bureau, or officials of those agencies have undertaken, in particulars relating to women, by themselves; or may have the Women's Management Bureau's officials designated by the Director-General view those documents.
The provisions of Articles 101 and 105 apply mutatis mutandis to investigations that the Director-General of the Women's Management Bureau or the designated officials under their jurisdiction, carry out in connection with the enforcement of special provisions of this Act relating to women.
Labor Standards Management Bureau
「労働基準主管局」
The bureau inside the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare that is responsible for working conditions and the protection of workers.
Defined inArticle 97, paragraph (1)
Director-General of the Labor Standards Management Bureau
「労働基準主管局長」
The head of the bureau in the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare that administers labor standards.
Short name set inArticle 97, paragraph (2)
Director-General of the Women's Management Bureaumachine translation
「女性主管局長」
The head of the bureau inside the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare that is responsible for labor issues that arise from the particular circumstances of women workers.
Defined inArticle 100, paragraph (1)