Supplementary Provisions, Article 5Review
第五条（検討）
Approximately three years after the enforcement of this Act, the national government is to consider the status of enforcement of the new Act, review the measures to rectify the disadvantageous treatment of whistleblower prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the new Act on the grounds of whistleblowing prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article, the handling of claims in court proceedings, and other provisions of the new Act, and take necessary measures based on the results of the review.
whistleblowingmachine translation
「公益通報」
A report made, not for a wrongful purpose such as gaining an unfair benefit or harming others, by one of the persons the items of Article 2, paragraph (1) list (workers, dispatched workers (派遣労働者) and officers (役員) among them), that a reportable fact (通報対象事実) has occurred or is about to occur at the business operator (事業者) the item names for that person, the recipient of services (役務提供先), or among its officers, employees, agents or others, made to that business operator or a person it designated in advance, to an administrative body (行政機関) with authority to make a disposition (処分) or recommendation about the fact or a person that body designated in advance, or to another person to whom reporting it is considered necessary to prevent it or the spread of the harm it causes.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
whistleblower
「公益通報者」
A person who has made a whistleblowing report (公益通報), as Article 2, paragraph (1) defines it.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (2)· applies throughout the law
new Act
「新法」
This Act as amended by Act No. 51 of 2020.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)