This Act comes into effect on September 30, 2015; provided, however, that the provisions of Article 11 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect on the date of promulgation.

①The Government, with a target of three years after this Act comes into effect, is to review the provisions of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers as amended by this Act (referred to below as the "new Act") while taking into consideration the state of enforcement of the new Act, and, when it finds this necessary, is to take the required measures based on the results of that review.

②Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if the Government finds, in light of the state of the labor market, including trends in the numbers of regular workers and dispatched workers, that there is a risk that the enforcement of this Act will undermine employment practices that are considered to contribute to workers' effective demonstration of their abilities and their employment security throughout their working lives, it is to promptly review the provisions of the new Act.

③The Government is to conduct surveys and research and take other necessary measures in order to consider how to ensure equal treatment and balanced treatment between dispatched workers and workers employed by the client who engage in the same type of work as that in which the dispatched workers engage.

①A person that, at the time this Act comes into effect, holds the license referred to in Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers prior to its amendment by this Act (referred to below as the "former Act") is deemed to have obtained the license referred to in Article 5, paragraph (1) of the new Act on the date on which this Act comes into effect (referred to below as the "effective date"). In that case, the validity period of the license referred to in that paragraph for the person deemed to have obtained that license is the same period as the remaining period, as of the effective date, of the validity period of that person's license under the provisions of Article 10 of the former Act.

②An application for a license filed pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (2) of the former Act that is pending at the time this Act comes into effect is deemed to be an application for a license filed pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (2) of the new Act.

③A license certificate that, at the time this Act comes into effect, has been issued pursuant to the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (1) of the former Act is deemed to be a license certificate issued pursuant to the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (1) of the new Act.

The provisions of Article 6, items (v) through (viii) of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers (referred to as the "Worker Dispatching Act" in the following Article and Article 6, paragraphs (2), (4), and (5) of the Supplementary Provisions) apply to a person that, on or after the effective date, has become subject to a disposition revoking a license as prescribed in item (v) of that Article (if the person is a corporation, a person who was an officer of that corporation as prescribed in item (vi) of that Article) or has filed a notification as prescribed in item (vii) of that Article (if the person is a corporation, a person who was an officer of that corporation as prescribed in item (viii) of that Article), and with regard to reasons for ineligibility for licensing relating to the disposition revoking a license or the order, or to the notification, of a person that, before the effective date, became subject to a disposition revoking a license or an order as prescribed in Article 6, item (iv) of the former Act (if the person is a corporation, a person who was an officer of that corporation as prescribed in item (v) of that Article) or filed a notification as prescribed in item (vi) of that Article (if the person is a corporation, a person who was an officer of that corporation as prescribed in item (vii) of that Article), the provisions then in force continue to govern.

With regard to the revocation of a license under the provisions of Article 14, paragraph (1) of the Worker Dispatching Act, or an order for the suspension of all or part of worker dispatching services under the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article, against a person deemed, pursuant to the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, to have obtained the license referred to in Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Worker Dispatching Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern as regards grounds that arose before the effective date.

①A person that, at the time this Act comes into effect, is engaging in specified worker dispatching services (meaning the specified worker dispatching services prescribed in Article 2, item (v) of the former Act) having submitted a written notification pursuant to the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (1) of the former Act may, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the new Act, continue to engage in worker dispatching services in which all of the business' dispatched workers (limited to those subject to worker dispatch carried out on a regular basis) are workers employed on a continuous basis, during the period up until the day on which three years have elapsed counting from the effective date (or, if within that period the person is ordered to discontinue its worker dispatching services pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (4) or files a notification indicating that it has discontinued its worker dispatching services pursuant to the provisions of Article 13, paragraph (1) of the new Act, up until the day on which it is ordered to discontinue them or the day on which it files that notification). The same applies, if the person has filed an application for the license referred to in that paragraph within that period and that period has elapsed, up until the day on which a disposition granting or refusing the license is made on that application.

②With regard to worker dispatching services under the preceding paragraph, the provisions of Article 5, Articles 7 through 10, the second sentence of Article 11, paragraph (1), Article 11, paragraphs (2) through (4), Article 13, paragraph (2), Article 14, and Article 54 of the Worker Dispatching Act do not apply, and for the purpose of applying the other provisions of the Worker Dispatching Act, a person engaging in those worker dispatching services is deemed to be a staffing provider as prescribed in Article 2, item (iv) of the Worker Dispatching Act. In that case, the phrase "stated in any of the items of Article 5, paragraph (2)" in Article 11, paragraph (1) of the Worker Dispatching Act is deemed to be replaced with "required to be stated in the written notification referred to in Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers prior to its amendment by Article 1 of the Act Partially Amending the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers, etc. (Act No. 73 of 2015) (referred to below as the "Act prior to the 2015 Amendment")", the phrase "has obtained the license referred to in Article 5, paragraph (1)" in Article 26, paragraph (3) of the Worker Dispatching Act is deemed to be replaced with "has submitted a written notification pursuant to the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Act prior to the 2015 Amendment", and any other necessary technical replacement of terms is specified by Cabinet Order.

③A person engaging in worker dispatching services under paragraph (1) must keep a document stating that it has submitted the written notification referred to in Article 16, paragraph (1) of the former Act and other particulars specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare at each place of business where it engages in worker dispatching services, and present it to a person concerned if asked.

④The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may order a person engaging in worker dispatching services under paragraph (1) to discontinue those worker dispatching services if the person falls under any of the items of Article 6 of the Worker Dispatching Act (excluding items (v) through (viii)), or if the person, despite having received instructions under the provisions of Article 48, paragraph (3) of the former Act before the effective date or instructions under the provisions of Article 48, paragraph (3) of the Worker Dispatching Act on or after the effective date, still violates the provisions of Article 23, paragraph (3) or Article 23-2 of the Worker Dispatching Act, and may order the person to discontinue those worker dispatching services if, at the time those worker dispatching services (if the person engages in those worker dispatching services by establishing two or more places of business, those worker dispatching services at each place of business; the same applies below in this paragraph) commenced, the person fell under any of Article 6, items (iv) through (vii) of the former Act.

⑤The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may order a person engaging in worker dispatching services under paragraph (1) to suspend all or part of those worker dispatching services for a designated period of time if the person has, before the effective date, violated the provisions of the former Act (excluding the provisions of Chapter III, Section 4) or an order or disposition based on those provisions, or has, on or after the effective date, violated the provisions of the Worker Dispatching Act (excluding the provisions of Chapter III, Section 4) or an order or disposition based on those provisions, or has violated the provisions of the Employment Security Act (Act No. 141 of 1947) or an order or disposition based on those provisions.

⑥A person that violates a disposition under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs is subject to imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than 1,000,000 yen.

⑦If a representative of a corporation, or an agent, employee, or other worker of a corporation or individual, commits a violation referred to in the preceding paragraph in connection with the business of the corporation or individual, in addition to the offender being subject to punishment, the corporation or individual is subject to the fine referred to in that paragraph.

The provisions of Article 35-3 of the new Act apply to worker dispatch carried out based on a staffing contract concluded on or after the effective date.

①The provisions of Article 37, paragraph (1), item (viii) of the new Act apply to measures taken on or after the effective date pursuant to the provisions of Article 30, paragraph (1) of the new Act (including when the provisions are applied pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article following the deemed replacement of terms).

②The provisions of Article 37, paragraph (1), item (ix) and Article 42, paragraph (1), item (ix) of the new Act apply to educational training provided on or after the effective date.

①The provisions of Article 40-2 of the new Act apply to worker dispatch carried out based on a staffing contract concluded on or after the effective date, and with regard to worker dispatch carried out based on a staffing contract concluded before the effective date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

②The provisions of Article 40-3 of the new Act apply to worker dispatch carried out based on a staffing contract concluded on or after the effective date.

With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before the effective date and to acts committed on or after the effective date in the case where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 5 of the Supplementary Provisions and paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

Beyond what is provided for in these Supplementary Provisions, transitional measures necessary in connection with the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order.