This Act comes into effect as of April 1, 1994.

With regard to working hours for the week that includes March 31, 1994, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 32, paragraph (1) (including as applied with the replacement of terms pursuant to Article 131, paragraph (1) of the new Labor Standards Act; the same applies in the following paragraph), Article 32-5, paragraph (1) (including as applied with the replacement of terms pursuant to Article 132, paragraph (2) of the new Labor Standards Act), Article 33, Article 36, Article 37, Article 60, Article 64-2, and Article 66, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Labor Standards Act as amended by this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "new Labor Standards Act").

With respect to a worker whom an employer, at the time this Act comes into effect, is to have work under the provisions of Article 32-2 and Article 32-3 of the Labor Standards Act prior to amendment by this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "former Labor Standards Act") and of Article 32-4, paragraph (1) of the former Labor Standards Act as applied with the replacement of terms pursuant to Article 132, paragraph (1) of the former Labor Standards Act, with regard to working hours for the period of an agreement, etc. under the former Labor Standards Act that includes March 31, 1994, from among a fixed period of not more than one month provided for in the rules of employment or other equivalent instrument based on the provisions of Article 32-2 of the former Labor Standards Act, the settlement period referred to in Article 32-3, item (ii) of the former Labor Standards Act provided for in an agreement under that Article based on the provisions of Article 32-3 of the former Labor Standards Act (including a resolution of a working hours reduction promotion committee prescribed in Article 7 of the Act on Temporary Measures for Promotion of Shorter Working Hours; the same applies hereinafter in this Article), or a fixed period of not more than three months provided for in an agreement under that paragraph based on the provisions of Article 32-4, paragraph (1) of the former Labor Standards Act as applied with the replacement of terms pursuant to Article 132, paragraph (1) of the former Labor Standards Act (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as a "period of an agreement, etc. under the former Labor Standards Act"), the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 32, paragraph (1), Article 32-2, Article 32-3, Article 32-4, paragraph (1) (including as applied with the replacement of terms pursuant to Article 132, paragraph (1) of the new Labor Standards Act; the same applies in paragraph (5)), Article 33, Article 36, Article 37, Article 64-2, and Article 66, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the new Labor Standards Act.

Work that an employer, before this Act comes into effect, specified in an agreement under Article 38-2, paragraph (4) of the former Labor Standards Act based on the provisions of that paragraph (limited to an agreement actually in effect at the time this Act comes into effect) is deemed to be work specified by the order referred to in Article 38-2, paragraph (4) of the new Labor Standards Act while that agreement remains in effect.

With respect to a worker to whose working hours, as of March 31, 1997, the provisions of Article 32, paragraph (1) of the new Labor Standards Act as applied with the replacement of terms pursuant to Article 131, paragraph (1) of the new Labor Standards Act (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph and the following paragraph as "Article 32, paragraph (1) of the new Labor Standards Act as applied with the deemed replacement of terms") apply, with regard to working hours for the week that includes that day, the provisions of Article 32, paragraph (1) of the new Labor Standards Act as applied with the deemed replacement of terms govern.

With respect to a worker whom an employer is to have work under the provisions of Article 32-2 through Article 32-4, paragraph (1) of the new Labor Standards Act and to whose working hours, as of March 31, 1997, the provisions of Article 32, paragraph (1) of the new Labor Standards Act as applied with the deemed replacement of terms apply, with regard to working hours for the period of an agreement, etc. under the new Labor Standards Act that includes that day, from among a fixed period of not more than one month provided for in the rules of employment or other equivalent instrument based on the provisions of Article 32-2 of the new Labor Standards Act, the settlement period referred to in item (ii) of Article 32-3 of the new Labor Standards Act provided for in an agreement under that Article based on the provisions of that Article, or the applicable period referred to in item (ii) of Article 32-4, paragraph (1) of the new Labor Standards Act provided for in an agreement under that paragraph based on the provisions of that paragraph (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as a "period of an agreement, etc. under the new Labor Standards Act"), the provisions of Article 32, paragraph (1) of the new Labor Standards Act as applied with the deemed replacement of terms govern.

With respect to a worker to whose working hours, as of March 31, 1997, the provisions of Article 32-4, paragraph (1) or Article 32-5, paragraph (1) of the new Labor Standards Act as applied with the replacement of terms pursuant to Article 132, paragraph (1) or (2) of the new Labor Standards Act apply, with regard to work during the excess hours (excluding hours to which the provisions of Article 37, paragraph (1) of the new Labor Standards Act apply) when an employer has had the worker work more than 40 hours per week on average over the applicable period referred to in item (ii) of Article 32-4, paragraph (1) of the new Labor Standards Act as applied with the replacement of terms pursuant to Article 132, paragraph (1) of the new Labor Standards Act that includes that day and is provided for in an agreement under that paragraph based on the provisions of that paragraph, or more than 40 hours in the week that includes that day, the provisions of Article 32-4, paragraph (1) or Article 32-5, paragraph (1) of the new Labor Standards Act as applied with the replacement of terms pursuant to Article 132, paragraph (1) or (2) of the new Labor Standards Act govern.

The provisions of Article 39, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the new Labor Standards Act apply to a worker for whom the day on which the worker's continuous service exceeds six months falls on or after the date on which this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "effective date"), and with regard to a worker who has been in continuous service for more than six months before the effective date, the provisions then in force continue to govern. In this case, with regard to the application of the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2) of that Article to a worker whose day of hiring falls before the effective date, the term "the day of hiring" in paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the date on which the Act Partially Amending the Labor Standards Act and the Act on Temporary Measures for Promoting the Reduction of Working Hours (Act No. 79 of 1993) comes into effect (referred to as the "effective date" in the following paragraph)", the term "one year and six months" in paragraph (2) of that Article with "one year and six months counting from the effective date", and the term "six months" with "six months counting from the effective date".

The provisions of Article 39, paragraph (7) of the new Labor Standards Act do not apply to a period, before the effective date, of childcare leave prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Childcare Leave, Etc. (Act No. 76 of 1991).

A report or appearance requested by an administrative agency or a labor standards inspector under the provisions of Article 110 of the former Labor Standards Act before this Act comes into effect is deemed to be a report or appearance ordered by an administrative agency or a labor standards inspector under the provisions of Article 104-2 of the new Labor Standards Act.

With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act comes into effect and to acts committed after this Act comes into effect with respect to matters that are to be governed by the provisions then in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 2, paragraphs (1) and (2) and Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

Beyond what is provided for in Article 2 through the preceding Article of the Supplementary Provisions, transitional measures necessary in connection with the enforcement of this Act (including transitional measures concerning penal provisions) are specified by Cabinet Order.