①An employer that regularly employs more than 300 workers must, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, periodically make public the proportion of the number of persons hired through mid-career hiring (meaning hiring other than the hiring of persons hired as new graduates, etc. (meaning persons hired in response to a job offer made on the condition that the person is a student or pupil of a school prescribed in Article 1 of the School Education Act (Act No. 26 of 1947) (excluding elementary schools and kindergartens) or of any other facility prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare who is expected to graduate, or any other person prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare); the same applies in the following paragraph) in the number of workers with a standard employment status and persons prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as equivalent thereto whom the employer has hired, so as to contribute to workers' choice in employment.

②The national government is to provide the necessary support so that employers are encouraged to voluntarily make public information on mid-career hiring, such as the proportion prescribed in the preceding paragraph.