Example question
Which employers must have rules of employment, and what must they cover?
An employer that continuously employs 10 or more workers must draw up rules of employment and file them with the authorities. They cover working and break times, days off and leave, how wages are set and paid, retirement including the grounds for dismissal, and the other matters the Article lists.
Article 89, paragraph (1)
Labor Standards Act 労働基準法
An employer that continuously employs 10 or more workers must prepare rules of employment covering the following particulars and must file those rules with the relevant government agency. The same applies if the employer has altered any of the following particulars:
常時十人以上の労働者を使用する使用者は、次に掲げる事項について就業規則を作成し、行政官庁に届け出なければならない。次に掲げる事項を変更した場合においても、同様とする。
- (i)
the particulars of the times at which work commences and ends, break times, days off, and leave periods; and the particulars of shifts, if it has workers work in two or more shifts;
始業及び終業の時刻、休憩時間、休日、休暇並びに労働者を二組以上に分けて交替に就業させる場合においては就業時転換に関する事項
- (ii)
the particulars of the means of determining, calculating, and paying wages (excluding special wages and other wages; the same applies below in this item); the end day of the pay period and payment date for wages; and wage increases;
賃金(臨時の賃金等を除く。以下この号において同じ。)の決定、計算及び支払の方法、賃金の締切り及び支払の時期並びに昇給に関する事項
- (iii)
the particulars of leaving employment (including grounds for dismissal);
退職に関する事項(解雇の事由を含む。)
- (iii-2)
if the rules of employment provide for a retirement allowance or severance pay, the particulars of the range of workers to whom those provisions apply; the means of determining, calculating, and paying that retirement allowance or severance pay; and the payment date for that retirement allowance or severance pay;
退職手当の定めをする場合においては、適用される労働者の範囲、退職手当の決定、計算及び支払の方法並びに退職手当の支払の時期に関する事項
- (iv)
if the rules of employment provide for special wages and other wages (excluding retirement allowance or severance pay) or a minimum wage, the particulars of this;
臨時の賃金等(退職手当を除く。)及び最低賃金額の定めをする場合においては、これに関する事項
- (v)
if the rules of employment include provisions that cause a worker to cover the cost of food, supplies for work, or any other expenses, the particulars of this;
労働者に食費、作業用品その他の負担をさせる定めをする場合においては、これに関する事項
