①On finding it to be necessary to do so in order to ensure improvement of personnel management and conversion of employment status for part-time/fixed term workers, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may ask an employer that employs part-time/fixed term workers to make a report, and may provide such an employer with advice or guidance or issue a recommendation thereto.

②If the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare issues a recommendation pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph to an employer that has violated the provisions of Article 6, paragraph (1); Article 9; Article 11, paragraph (1); Articles 12 through 14; or Article 16, but the employer to which the recommendation is issued fails to follow it, the Minister may make this fact public.

③The authority of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs may be partially delegated to the director of the relevant prefectural labour bureau pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.