Supplementary Provisions, Article 135

①To apply the provisions of Article 39 to a worker whom an employer has continuously employed for four to eight years after the six-months elapsed date, if the day following that on which the worker reaches one of those years of continuous employment falls during the period from April 1, 1999 to March 31, 2000, for each category of the number of years of continuous employment from the six-month elapsed date listed in the left-hand column of the following table, the phrase in the table referred to in Article 39, paragraph (2) that is listed in the middle column of the following table is deemed to be replaced with the phrase listed in the right-hand column of the following table until March 31, 2000.

②To apply the provisions of Article 39 to a worker whom an employer has continuously employed for five to seven years after the six-months elapsed date, if the day following that on which the worker reaches one of those years of continuous employment falls during the period from April 1, 2000 to March 31, 2001, for each category of the number of years of continuous employment from the six-months elapsed date stated in the left-hand column of the following table, the phrase in the table referred to in paragraph (2) of Article 39 that is listed in the middle column of the following table is deemed to be replaced with the phrase listed in the right-hand column of the following table during the period from April 1, 2000 to March 31, 2001.