Supplementary Provisions, Article 12Review
第十二条（検討）
If five years have elapsed since this Act came into effect, the government is to review the provisions of Article 36 of the New Labor Standards Act while taking into consideration the status of their enforcement, trends in working hours and other circumstances, and, when it finds it necessary, is to take the required measures based on the results of that review.
政府は、この法律の施行後五年を経過した場合において、新労基法第三十六条の規定について、その施行の状況、労働時間の動向その他の事情を勘案しつつ検討を加え、必要があると認めるときは、その結果に基づいて所要の措置を講ずるものとする。
The government is to continue to consider the abolition of the special provisions concerning Article 36 of the New Labor Standards Act for the businesses prescribed in Article 139 of the New Labor Standards Act and the work prescribed in Article 140 of the New Labor Standards Act, while taking into consideration trends in working hours after this Act comes into effect and other circumstances.
政府は、新労基法第百三十九条に規定する事業及び新労基法第百四十条に規定する業務に係る新労基法第三十六条の規定の特例の廃止について、この法律の施行後の労働時間の動向その他の事情を勘案しつつ引き続き検討するものとする。
Beyond the matters provided for in the preceding two paragraphs, the government is, with a target of five years after this Act comes into effect, to review the provisions of the respective Acts as amended by this Act (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as the "respective Acts as amended") from the perspective of achieving harmony between work and life, improving working conditions, securing balanced treatment among workers with different forms of employment or forms of work, and otherwise enriching the vocational lives of workers, through the promotion of consultation between workers and employers and other means, while taking into consideration the status of enforcement of the respective Acts as amended and other circumstances, and, when it finds it necessary, is to take the required measures based on the results of that review.
business
「事業」
A business or office at which people are employed; the unit to which the Labor Standards Act applies.
Short name set inArticle 9, paragraph (1)
worker
「労働者」
A person employed at a business or office and paid wages, whatever the kind of job.
Defined inArticle 9, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
employermachine translation
「使用者」
The business owner, its managers, and anyone else acting for the owner in matters concerning its workers.
Defined inArticle 10, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
the New Labor Standards Actmachine translation
「新労基法」
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 71 of 2018.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)
the respective Acts as amendedmachine translation
「改正後の各法律」
Each of the laws as amended by the amending Act these supplementary provisions belong to.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 12, paragraph (3)· applies only in this paragraph