Article 40-4Employment of Prescribed Dispatched Workers on Fixed-Term Contracts
第四十条の四（特定有期雇用派遣労働者の雇用）
If a client has used worker dispatching services (excluding services associated with worker dispatching that falls under any of the items of Article 40-2, paragraph (1)) that a staffing provider provides using the same prescribed dispatched worker on a fixed-term contract during a continuous period of one year or longer for work in an organizational unit at the client's place of business or at the place for assigned work to be performed, and the client seeks to hire a worker on or after the day that follows the final day in the period during which it used those staffing services (referred to below as "the period the client implemented the staffing arrangement" in this Article) so as to have a worker continue to engage in that work, it must endeavor to hire the prescribed dispatched worker who was continuously engaged in that same work during the period the client implemented the staffing arrangement (limited to a person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as one who wishes to continue to do that work).
派遣先は、当該派遣先の事業所その他派遣就業の場所における組織単位ごとの同一の業務について派遣元事業主から継続して一年以上の期間同一の特定有期雇用派遣労働者に係る労働者派遣（第四十条の二第一項各号のいずれかに該当するものを除く。）の役務の提供を受けた場合において、引き続き当該同一の業務に労働者を従事させるため、当該労働者派遣の役務の提供を受けた期間（以下この条において「派遣実施期間」という。）が経過した日以後労働者を雇い入れようとするときは、当該同一の業務に派遣実施期間継続して従事した特定有期雇用派遣労働者（継続して就業することを希望する者として厚生労働省令で定めるものに限る。）を、遅滞なく、雇い入れるように努めなければならない。