In designating a specified industry, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must take into consideration the prospect that, in the case where the Organization carries out the operations set out in Article 70, paragraph (1), item (i) relating to that specified industry, a considerable number of small and medium-sized enterprises that carry on businesses belonging to that specified industry will become mutual aid policyholders under specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid contracts relating to that specified industry, and other circumstances, and must hear the opinion of the Labour Policy Council.
厚生労働大臣は、特定業種の指定をするに当たつては、機構により当該特定業種に係る第七十条第一項第一号に掲げる業務が行われた場合において当該特定業種に属する事業を営む相当数の中小企業者が当該特定業種に係る特定業種退職金共済契約の共済契約者となる見込みがあることその他の事情を考慮し、かつ、労働政策審議会の意見を聴かなければならない。
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small and medium-sized enterprisemachine translation
「中小企業者」
An employer (事業主) — other than the State, a local government or a similar body an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働省令) names — that regularly employs no more than 300 employees, or is a corporation with stated capital or total contributions of no more than 300 million yen; where its main business is wholesale, the limits are 100 employees or 100 million yen, in services 100 employees or 50 million yen, and in retail 50 employees or 50 million yen.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
the Organizationmachine translation
「機構」
The Organization for Workers' Retirement Allowance Mutual Aid (独立行政法人勤労者退職金共済機構), an incorporated administrative agency, throughout this Act except Articles 56 and 57.
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (3)· applies from here on, except in Articles 56 and 57
specified industrymachine translation
「特定業種」
Construction or another industry, designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働大臣), in which many employees normally move between the many businesses of that industry and are employed by their employers in turn.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (4)· applies throughout the law
specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid contractmachine translation
「特定業種退職金共済契約」
A contract under which an employer (事業主) in a specified industry (特定業種) promises to pay premiums (掛金) to the Organization (機構), and the Organization promises to pay a retirement allowance (退職金), as this Act provides, when a person leaves who is employed by that employer for a fixed term and normally works in that industry.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (5)· applies throughout the law
mutual aid policyholdermachine translation
「共済契約者」
An employer (事業主) that is a party to a retirement allowance mutual aid contract (退職金共済契約) or a specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid contract (特定業種退職金共済契約).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (6)· applies throughout the law
Labor Policy Council
労働政策審議会
A council (審議会) attached to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Article 6, paragraph (1)). At the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare's request it studies and deliberates on important matters of labour policy (and, at that Minister's or the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry's request, on preventing pneumoconiosis (じん肺)), gives its opinion on them to the Minister or the administrative bodies concerned, and handles the matters the labour laws assign to it (Article 9, paragraph (1) of that Act). It has thirty members, whom the Minister appoints in equal numbers from those representing workers, employers and the public interest, and temporary and expert members may be added for particular matters (Cabinet Order (政令) on the Labor Policy Council (労働政策審議会令), Articles 2 and 3).
Written by AI using Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Arts. 6, 9 and Cabinet Order on the Labor Policy Council, Arts. 2, 3 as a reference.