Act on Proper Technical Intern Training and Protection of Technical Intern Trainees

Technical intern training must be developedEmployment for the proper acquisition of, increaseskill development must be conducted in the proficiency of, or attainment of the proficiency of (hereinafter referredan environment with a well-established system to protect skill development employees to as "acquisition") the skills, etc., and conducted in an environment with a system in place to protect technical intern trainees, in order to allow the traineesensure that they can properly acquire skills requiring considerable degree of knowledge or experience in the employment-for-skill-development industrial fields and devote themselves to concentrate on technical intern trainingconducting employment for skill development.

In order to achieve the objectivepurpose of this Act, the National Governmentnational government must comprehensively and effectively promote measures so as to ensurenecessary for ensuring the proper implementation of technical intern training employment for skill development and the protection of technical intern traineesskill development employees, in accordance with the basic principles set forth in the preceding Article.

In conjunction with the National Governmentnational government's measures set forth in the preceding paragraph, local governments must endeavor to promote measures necessary for ensuring the proper implementation of technical intern training employment for skill development and the protection of technical intern trainees,skill development employees in accordance with the actual circumstances of the relevant region.

Implementing organizations for employment for development must be conscious of their responsibilities as entities conducting technical intern training the organizations providing employment for skill development with regard to the proper implementation of technical intern training employment for skill development and the protection of technical intern trainees, skill development employees, and must endeavor to develop a suitable environment for conducting technical intern training, and mustproviding employment for skill development and cooperate with the National Government and local measures being implemented by the national government measures,and local governments in accordance with the basic principles set forth in Article 3.

Supervising and support organizations must be conscious of the fact that they perform anshould play important roleroles in the proper implementation of technical intern training employment for skill development and the protection of technical intern trainees, skill development employees, and must fulfill their responsibilities infor supervision and support in an appropriate manner, and must cooperate with the measures being implemented by the National Governmentnational government and local governments.

Associations consisting of which an implementing organization implementing organizations for employment for development or supervising organization is a memberand support organizations must endeavor to provide the necessary guidance and advice to the implementing organizations or supervising and support organizations as their members in order to ensure the proper implementation of technical intern training, employment for skill development and the protection of the technical intern traineesskill development employees.

Technical intern traineesSkill development employees must endeavor to acquire skills, etc., and transfer those skills, etc. to their home country requiring considerable degree of knowledge or experience in the employment-for-skill-development industrial fields by devoting themselves to technical intern trainingconducting employment for skill development.

The competent ministersgovernment must establish a basic policy for the proper implementation of technical intern training employment for skill development and the protection of technical intern traineesskill development employees (hereinafter referred to as the "basic policy" in this Article and the following Article).

The basic policy is to specify the following:

fundamentals the particulars on the proper implementationsignificance of technical intern training and the protection of technical intern traineessystem pertaining to the employment-for-skill-development;

matters to ensure the proper implementationthe basic particulars on the selection of technical intern training the employment-for-skill-development industrial fields and the protection of technical intern traineesemployment-for-skill-development industrial fields through worker dispatch, etc.;

matters that should be taken into consideration for the proper implementation of technical intern training andbasic particulars on human resources required in the protection of technical intern trainees; andemployment-for-skill-development industrial fields;

the fields for which skills, etc., should be transferred and matters regarding promotion ofbasic particulars on measures for the transferprotection of skills, etc.skill development employees;

the basic particulars on adjustments to the administrative affairs of the relevant administrative organs relating to operation of the employment-for-skill-development system; and

beyond what is stated in the preceding items, important particulars on operation of the system pertaining to the employment-for-skill-development.

The competent ministers are to establish measures in themust prepare a draft basic policy in order to ensure the proper implementation of technical intern training and protection of technical intern trainees for specific job categories, if necessaryseek a cabinet decision.

The competent ministers must consult When preparing a draft basic policy, the heads of the relevant administrative organs in advance when planning to establish or amend the basic policycompetent ministers must seek the opinions of persons with knowledge of employment for skill development in advance.

The competent ministers must publish any basic policy thatIf the cabinet decision set forth in paragraph (3) has been established or amended,made, the competent ministers must publish the basic policy without delay.

The provisions of the preceding three paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis to revisions to the basic policy.

The competent ministers must, pursuant to the basic policy, in cooperation with the heads of relevant administrative organs with jurisdiction over specified fields of the employment-for-skill-development industrial fields (hereinafter referred to as "individual employment-for-skill-development industrial fields"), and the National Public Safety Commission and the Minister for Foreign Affairs (hereinafter referred to as "heads of the administrative organs in charge and other ministers" in this Article), establish policies for the operation of an employment-for-skill-development system in the individual employment-for-skill-development industrial fields (hereinafter referred to as "field-specific operation policies") to ensure the proper implementation of employment for skill development and the protection of skill development employees in the individual employment-for-skill-development industrial fields.

The field-specific operation policies are to specify the particulars stated below:

If the individual employment-for-skill-development industrial fields specified in the relevant field-specific operation policies and the individual employment-for-skill-development industrial fields are the employment-for-skill-development industrial fields through worker dispatch, etc., to that effect;

particulars on the criteria for human resources required in the individual employment-for-skill-development industrial fields referred to in the preceding item;

particulars on the development of skill development employees in the individual employment-for-skill-development industrial fields referred to in item (i);

particulars on the expected number of accepted human resources in the individual employment-for-skill-development industrial fields referred to in item (i) and securing other human resources (including the situation of regions facing the human resource shortage in the individual employment-for-skill-development industrial fields);

particulars on the measures to suspend the accreditation of employment for skill development set forth under Article 12-2 in the individual employment-for-skill-development industrial fields referred to in item (i) and the measures to resume the accreditation;

particulars on change of implementing organizations in the individual employment-for-skill-development industrial fields referred to in item (i); and

beyond what is stated in the preceding items, important particulars on operation of the system pertaining to employment-for-skill-development in the individual employment-for-skill-development industrial fields referred to in item (i).

In seeking to establish the field-specific operation policies, the competent ministers, and the heads of the administrative organs in charge and other ministers must seek the opinions of persons with knowledge of employment for skill development in advance.

In seeking to establish the field-specific operation policies, the competent ministers, and the heads of the administrative organs in charge and other ministers must consult with the heads of relevant administrative organs other than the heads of the administrative organs in charge and other ministers in advance.

When the field-specific operation policies have been establish, the competent ministers, and the heads of the administrative organs in charge and other ministers must publicly announce those policies without delay.

The provisions of the preceding three paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis to revisions to field-specific operation policies.