The Director of a Prefectural Labor Bureau is to have the dispute coordinating committee referred to in Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Act on Promoting the Resolution of Individual Labor-Related Disputes (hereinafter referred to as the "committee") conduct the conciliation of a dispute provided for in Article 16 (except for a dispute on the recruitment and employment of workers) when either party or both parties to the dispute (hereinafter referred to as the "parties concerned") apply for conciliation and the Director finds it necessary to do so in order to resolve the dispute.
都道府県労働局長は、第十六条に規定する紛争（労働者の募集及び採用についての紛争を除く。）について、当該紛争の当事者（以下「関係当事者」という。）の双方又は一方から調停の申請があつた場合において当該紛争の解決のために必要があると認めるときは、個別労働関係紛争の解決の促進に関する法律第六条第一項の紛争調整委員会（以下「委員会」という。）に調停を行わせるものとする。
The provisions of Article 11, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to cases in which a worker files the application referred to in the preceding paragraph.