The Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau is to be subject to the direction and supervision of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare with respect to the affairs listed in paragraph (1), item (i) of the preceding Article and in paragraph (2) of that Article, and the affairs concerning the direction and supervision of the Directors of the Labor Standards Offices and the Chiefs of the Public Employment Security Offices under the following paragraph and paragraph (3).
The Director of the Labor Standards Office is to be subject to the direction and supervision of the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau with respect to the affairs listed in paragraph (1), item (ii) of the preceding Article.
労働基準監督署長は、前条第一項第二号に掲げる事務については、都道府県労働局長の指揮監督を受けるものとする。
The Chief of the Public Employment Security Office is to be subject to the direction and supervision of the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau with respect to the affairs listed in paragraph (1), item (iii) of the preceding Article.
公共職業安定所長は、前条第一項第三号に掲げる事務については、都道府県労働局長の指揮監督を受けるものとする。
director of a labor standards inspection office
労働基準監督署長
The head of a labor standards inspection office (労働基準監督署), one of the offices under each prefectural labor bureau (都道府県労働局) that carry out the Labor Standards Act (Labor Standards Act, Article 97, paragraph (1), and Article 99, paragraph (2)). The director is appointed from among labor standards inspectors (Article 97, paragraph (2)) and, directed and supervised by the director of the prefectural labor bureau (都道府県労働局長), administers the inspections (臨検), questioning (尋問), approvals (許可), investigations (審査) and other matters of carrying out that Act, and directs and supervises the office's staff (Article 99, paragraphs (2) and (3)). Under the Act on Ensuring Wage Payment, where an employer holds its workers' savings as deposits but has not taken the measures to protect them that Article 3 requires (保全措置), the director can order it to put that right by a deadline the director sets (Act on Ensuring Wage Payment, Articles 3 and 4). For the workers a Ministerial Order (厚生労働省令) names, the director confirms the amount of their unpaid wages and other matters before the government pays part of those wages in the employer's place (Article 7), and may send staff into the employer's workplace to question people and inspect books and documents to make that confirmation (Article 13, paragraph (2)). The director is also one of the officials a worker can report the employer's violations to (Article 14, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Labor Standards Act, Arts. 97, 99 and Act on Ensuring Wage Payment, Arts. 3, 4, 7, 13, 14 as a reference.
director of a prefectural labor bureau
都道府県労働局長
The head of a prefectural labor bureau (都道府県労働局), a local branch (地方支分部局) of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, so part of the national government rather than of the prefecture (Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Article 17; National Government Organization Act, Article 9). The post is filled by a labor standards inspector (労働基準監督官) (Labor Standards Act, Article 97, paragraph (2)). Under the Labor Standards Act, the director, directed and supervised by the head of the Ministry's Labor Standards Management Bureau (労働基準主管局長), directs and supervises the directors of the labor standards inspection offices (労働基準監督署長) in the bureau's area, handles the carrying out of that Act, such as coordinating how inspection is done, and directs and supervises the bureau's staff; the director may also exercise the powers of the authorities below (下級官庁) directly, or have the bureau's labor standards inspectors exercise them (Labor Standards Act, Article 97, paragraph (1), and Article 99, paragraphs (2) and (4)). The heads of public employment security offices (公共職業安定所長) run their offices under the director's direction and supervision (Employment Security Act, Article 8, paragraph (2)).
Written by AI using Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Art. 17, National Government Organization Act, Art. 9, Labor Standards Act, Arts. 97, 99 and Employment Security Act, Art. 8 as a reference.