An employer must not infringe upon the freedom in private life of a worker living in the communal housing associated with its business.

An employer must not interfere in the selection of communal housing leaders, room monitors, and other leaders necessary for the autonomy of life in communal housing.

An employer that has a worker live in communal housing associated with its business must draw up house rules regarding the following particulars and must file a notification of those rules with the relevant government agency. The same applies if the employer alters these rules:

An employer must obtain the consent of a person representing a majority of the workers living in the communal housing concerning the drawing up or alteration of provisions concerning the particulars referred to in items (i) through (iv) of the preceding paragraph.

In filing the house rules pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), the employer must attach a document evidencing the consent referred to in the preceding paragraph.

The employer and the workers who live in the communal housing must observe the house rules.

With respect to communal housing associated with a business, the employer must take the necessary measures to provide ventilation, lighting, illumination, heating, damp-proofing, cleanliness, evacuation, maximum accommodation, and sleeping facilities, and other measures necessary to maintain the health and moral order of the workers and to keep them alive.

Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribes the standards for measures to be taken by an employer pursuant to the preceding paragraph.

If an employer seeks to establish, move, or alter communal housing associated with a business that continuously employs 10 or more workers or communal housing associated with a business that is dangerous or hazardous to one's health and that Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribes, the employer must file with the relevant government agency plans that it has established in accordance with the standards for danger and hazard prevention and related actions that are prescribed by the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare issued pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, no later than 14 days prior to the start of the construction of that communal housing.

The relevant government agency may suspend the start of construction or order the alteration of plans on finding it to be necessary to do so for the safety and health of the workers.

If communal housing associated with a business employing a worker is in violation of the standards established for safety and health, the relevant government agency may order the employer to suspend the use of all or part of the communal housing or to alter all or part of the communal housing, and may issue orders on other necessary matters to the employer.

In a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph, the relevant government agency may order the workers to do as necessary in connection with the matters on which it has issued orders to the employer.