# Director of a labor standards inspection office (労働基準監督署長, ろうどうきじゅんかんとくしょちょう) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/labor-standards-inspection-office-director. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Group: Institutions, offices and documents - URL: https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/labor-standards-inspection-office-director - In Japanese: https://japanlaw.org/ja/concepts/labor-standards-inspection-office-director - Written by: claude-opus-5-5, 2026-09-29 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 for this site by an AI model from the provisions and pages it cites. Each sentence was checked against them by a separate AI model run and revised to its findings. Not reviewed by a lawyer. ## Provisions and sources it draws on - [Labor Standards Act, Arts. 97, 99](https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000049) — on this site: https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act - [Act on Ensuring Wage Payment, Arts. 3, 4, 7, 13, 14](https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/351AC0000000034) — on this site: https://japanlaw.org/en/wage-payment-act ## Where the laws use it 5 laws in force use it in this sense, in 52 provisions; there the word opens this explanation. - [Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act (労働基準法施行規則)](https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance): 23 provisions, among them [Article 6](https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-6), [Supplementary Provisions](https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-3359-29), [Supplementary Provisions](https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-3399-4) - [Industrial Safety and Health Act (労働安全衛生法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act): 16 provisions, among them [Article 11](https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-11), [Article 30](https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-30), [Article 30-2](https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-30-2) - [Act on Ensuring Wage Payment (賃金の支払の確保等に関する法律)](https://japanlaw.org/en/wage-payment-act): 8 provisions, among them [Article 4](https://japanlaw.org/en/wage-payment-act/art-4), [Article 7](https://japanlaw.org/en/wage-payment-act/art-7), [Article 10](https://japanlaw.org/en/wage-payment-act/art-10) - [Minimum Wage Act (最低賃金法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/minimum-wage-act): 3 provisions, among them [Article 31](https://japanlaw.org/en/minimum-wage-act/art-31), [Article 34](https://japanlaw.org/en/minimum-wage-act/art-34), [Article 35](https://japanlaw.org/en/minimum-wage-act/art-35) - [Labor Standards Act (労働基準法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act): 2 provisions, among them [Article 97](https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-97), [Article 99](https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-99) ## Related - [Act (法律, ほうりつ)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/act) - [Ministerial Order (省令, しょうれい)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/ministerial-ordinance) - [Labor standards inspector (労働基準監督官, ろうどうきじゅんかんとくかん)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/labor-standards-inspector) - [Prefectural labor bureau (都道府県労働局, とどうふけんろうどうきょく)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/prefectural-labor-bureau) - [Director of a prefectural labor bureau (都道府県労働局長, とどうふけんろうどうきょくちょう)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/prefectural-labor-bureau-director) - [Safety manager (安全管理者, あんぜんかんりしゃ)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/safety-manager) - [Health manager (衛生管理者, えいせいかんりしゃ)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/health-manager) --- ## Sources - Explanation: Written for this site with AI (claude-opus-5-5, 2026-09-29) - Where it is used, and how often: Worked out by this site from e-Gov's text - English names of the laws: Japanese Law Translation, Ministry of Justice (5 records)