Chapter II-2 Employment Placement Carried Out by Local Public Entities

①A local public entity may provide free employment placement services.

②A specified local public entity must notify the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare that it will provide free employment placement services pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

③A specified local public entity may determine the range of job categories, etc. handled (referring to the range of job categories and other operations that the specified local public entity manages in its employment placement services; the same applies hereinafter).

④If a specified local public entity has set a range of job categories, etc. to be handled pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the provisions of Article 5-6, paragraph (1) and Article 5-7, paragraph (1) are to apply only within the scope concerned.

If a specified local public entity discontinues its free employment placement services, it must notify the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare of this without delay.

A specified local public entity must not allow another person to carry out free employment placement services using the name of that local public entity.

A specified local public entity must explicitly inform job posters and job seekers the range of job categories handled, the particulars of its complaint processing, and other particulars prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as those concerning the substance of free employment placement service operations that it is appropriate for job posters and job seekers to be notified of in advance.

If a specified local public entity wishes to receive information concerning job openings or job searches, a public employment security office will provide the information that Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribes as information that concerns job openings or job searches to the local public entity; this will be done via electronic or magnetic means (this refers to a method that involves the use of an electronic data processing system or a method that makes use of any other such information and communications technology), or by any other means prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

A public employment security office may provide a specified local public entity with employment information, the results of surveys and research on employment, and other assistance related to the administration of free employment placement services.

In the administration of free employment placement services, a specified local public entity must endeavor to take necessary measures to improve those services, in coordination with employment security agencies.

The provisions of Article 20 apply mutatis mutandis when a specified local public entity provides free employment placement services. In such a case, the term "public employment security office" in paragraph (1) of that Article is to be interpreted as "specified local public entity"; and the term "public employment security office" found in paragraph (2) of the same article is to be read as with "public employment security office is to report this to the specified local public entity, and the local public entity receiving that report".

In addition to what is prescribed in this Chapter, necessary particulars related to the free employment placement services of specified local public entities are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.