If an employer has had a grievance raised by a part-time/fixed term worker with regard to any of the things prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1); Article 8; Article 9; Article 11, paragraph (1); or Articles 12 through 14, the employer is to endeavor to achieve a self-initiated resolution by entrusting the handling of that grievance to the grievance body (meaning the body that is meant to handle the grievances of the workers at the relevant place of business, and that is composed of persons representing the employer and persons representing the workers at that place of business) or in other ways.

The provisions of Article 4, Article 5, and Articles 12 through 19 of the Act on Promoting the Resolution of Individual Labor-Related Disputes (Act No. 112 of 2001) do not apply to a dispute between a part-time/fixed term worker and the employer thereof with regard to the things set forth in the preceding Article; the provisions of the following Article through Article 27 apply to this.

①Having been asked for assistance in the resolution of a dispute as prescribed in the preceding Article by one or both of the parties to that dispute, the director of a prefectural labour bureau may provide the necessary advice or guidance to the parties to the dispute or issue the necessary recommendations thereto.

②An employer must not dismiss a part-time/fixed term worker or otherwise subject such a worker to disadvantageous treatment by reason of that worker having asked for the assistance set forth in the preceding paragraph.

①On finding that it is necessary to do so in order to resolve a dispute as provided in Article 23 when one or both parties to the dispute have filed an application for conciliation, the director of a prefectural labour bureau is to have the dispute coordinating committee set forth in Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Act on Promoting the Resolution of Individual Labor-Related Disputes conduct the conciliation.

②The provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis if a part-time/fixed term worker files an application as referred to in the preceding paragraph.

The provisions of Articles 19 through 26 of the Act on Equal Opportunity and Treatment between Men and Women in Employment (Act No. 113 of 1972) apply mutatis mutandis to the procedure of conciliation set forth in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article. In such a case, the phrase "paragraph (1) of the preceding Article" in Article 19, paragraph (1) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "Article 25, paragraph (1) of the Act on Improvement of Personnel Management and Conversion of Employment Status for Part-Time Workers and Fixed-Term Workers"; the term "workplace" in Article 20 of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "place of business"; and the phrase "Article 18, paragraph (1)" in Article 25, paragraph (1) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "Article 23 of the Act on Improvement of Personnel Management and Conversion of Employment Status for Part-Time Workers and Fixed-Term Workers".

Beyond as provided in this Section, Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare provides for the necessary particulars in connection with conciliation proceedings.