Article 33Free Employment Placement Services

①Unless conducted pursuant to the provisions of the following Article and Article 33-3, a person seeking to provide free employment placement services (excluding those provided by an employment security agency or specified local public entity; the same applies hereinafter) must be licensed by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.

②Before granting the license referred to in the preceding paragraph, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must hear the opinion of the Labor Policy Council in advance; provided, however, that this does not apply if the license is granted to a labor union, etc.

③The validity period of the license referred to in paragraph (1) is five years commencing from the day the license is granted.

④The provisions of Article 30, paragraphs (2) through (4), Articles 31, 32, 32-4, and 32-5, Article 32-6, paragraphs (2), (3), and (5), Articles 32-7 through 32-10, and Articles 32-12 through 32-16 apply mutatis mutandis to free employment placement services provided under the license referred to in paragraph (1) and persons that have obtained that license. In such a case, the phrase "the license referred to in the preceding paragraph" in Article 30, paragraph (2), the phrase "the license referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article" in Article 31, and the phrase "the license referred to in Article 30, paragraph (1)" in Article 32, Article 32-4, paragraph (1), Article 32-5, Article 32-6, paragraph (5), Article 32-8, paragraph (2), and Article 32-9, paragraph (1) are deemed to be replaced with "the license referred to in Article 33, paragraph (1)"; the phrase "the preceding paragraph" in Article 32-6, paragraph (2) is deemed to be replaced with "Article 33, paragraph (3)"; the phrase "the particulars of its fees, the particulars of its complaint processing" in Article 32-13 is deemed to be replaced with "the particulars of its complaint processing"; and the phrase "the amounts of fees for employment placement, and other particulars" in paragraph (2) of the preceding Article and the phrase "the particulars of its fees, and other particulars" in paragraph (3) thereof are deemed to be replaced with ", and other particulars".

⑤The provisions of Article 30, paragraphs (2) through (4), Article 31, paragraph (2), and Article 32 (excluding items (v) through (viii)) apply mutatis mutandis to the renewal of the validity period of the license provided for in Article 32-6, paragraph (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph.