Changes on (Act No. 62 of 2025)
In addition to what is provided for in Article 3, a business operator provided for in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i) must not treat a whistleblower who is or was employed by the business operator in a disadvantageous manner, such as by demotion, reduction of salary, or non-payment of retirement allowance, or otherwise, on the grounds that the whistleblower has conducted whistleblowing provided for in the items of Article 3.
Removed on (Act No. 62 of 2025)
In addition to what is provided for in the preceding Article, a business operator provided for in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (ii) must not, on the grounds that a whistleblower who is a dispatched worker working under the directions and orders of the business operator has conducted whistleblowing provided for in the items of Article 3, request that the business operator carrying out the worker dispatch related to the whistleblower replace the dispatched worker, or otherwise treat the whistleblower in a disadvantageous manner.
Removed on (Act No. 62 of 2025)
A business operator provided for in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (iv) (limited to a business operator stated in (a) of the item; the same applies in the following Article and Article 8, paragraph (4)) must not reduce the remuneration or otherwise treat the whistleblower disadvantageously (excluding dismissal) on the grounds that the whistleblower, who performs or performed duties for the business operator, has conducted whistleblowing provided for in the items of the following Article.
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「事業者」
A corporation or other organization, or an individual who carries on a business.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1)
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「公益通報」
A report made, not for a wrongful purpose such as gaining an unfair benefit or harming others, by one of the persons the items of Article 2, paragraph (1) list (workers, dispatched workers (派遣労働者) and officers (役員) among them), that a reportable fact (通報対象事実) has occurred or is about to occur at the business operator (事業者) the item names for that person, the recipient of services (役務提供先), or among its officers, employees, agents or others, made to that business operator or a person it designated in advance, to an administrative body (行政機関) with authority to make a disposition (処分) or recommendation about the fact or a person that body designated in advance, or to another person to whom reporting it is considered necessary to prevent it or the spread of the harm it causes.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
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「労働者派遣」
Worker dispatch as defined in Article 2, item (i) of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers (Act No. 88 of 1985): having workers one employs work under another person's direction and orders, and for that person, while they stay in one's own employment, not counting an arrangement made with that other person for it to employ the workers.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (ii)· applies only in this provision and in Article 4; and Article 5, paragraph (2)
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「派遣労働者」
A dispatched worker as defined in Article 2, item (ii) of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers (Act No. 88 of 1985): a worker employed by an employer (事業主) who is the subject of worker dispatch (労働者派遣).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (ii)
whistleblower
「公益通報者」
A person who has made a whistleblowing report (公益通報), as Article 2, paragraph (1) defines it.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (2)· applies throughout the law