Supplementary Provisions
附 則
This Act comes into effect as of the date of promulgation. However, the provisions of Article 2 and the next paragraph and paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect as of the date provided by a cabinet order within one year from the date of promulgation.
The provisions of Article 18 of the Labor Contracts Act after the revision by the provisions of Article 2 (hereinafter referred to as the "New Labor Contracts Act") are applied to a fixed-term labor contract where a day on or after the effective date provided by the proviso of the preceding paragraph is determined as the first day of the contract term, and the contract term of a fixed-term labor contract where a day before the effective date provided by the proviso of the same paragraph is determined as the first day is not included in the total contract term provided by paragraph (1) in the same Article.
The Government is to review the provisions of Article 18 of the New Labor Contracts Act taking the situations after the enforcement of the provisions into account and is to take necessary measures, based on the outcomes of the review, if it is found to be necessary, at the time when eight years have lapsed since the enforcement of the provisions provided by the proviso of paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions.
政府は、附則第一項ただし書に規定する規定の施行後八年を経過した場合において、新労働契約法第十八条の規定について、その施行の状況を勘案しつつ検討を加え、必要があると認めるときは、その結果に基づいて必要な措置を講ずるものとする。
total contract term
「通算契約期間」
The contract periods of two or more fixed-term labor contracts (有期労働契約) made with the same employer added together; once that total passes five years, a worker who asks for a contract with no fixed term is treated as having been granted one.
Short name set inArticle 18, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 18, paragraph (2)
New Labor Contracts Act
「新労働契約法」
This Act as amended by Article 2 of Act No. 56 of 2012.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, paragraph (2)