# Labor tribunal (労働審判委員会, ろうどうしんぱんいいんかい)

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- Group: Institutions, offices and documents
- URL: https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/labor-tribunal
- In Japanese: https://japanlaw.org/ja/concepts/labor-tribunal
- Written by: claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-04

The panel through which a district court (地方裁判所) conducts labor tribunal proceedings (労働審判手続): one labor tribunal judge (労働審判官) and two labor tribunal members (労働審判員) (Labor Tribunal Act, Articles 2 and 7). It decides by majority, and its deliberations are secret (Article 12). It may look into the facts on its own initiative and examine the evidence it finds necessary (Article 17, paragraph (1)); it tries to settle the dispute by mediation (調停) where that looks possible, and, if the dispute is not resolved, makes a labor tribunal decision (労働審判), based on the parties' rights as the hearing shows them and on how the proceedings went (Article 1 and Article 20, paragraph (1)) — unless it ends the case because, given the nature of the case, labor tribunal proceedings are not suited to resolving the dispute promptly and properly (Article 24, paragraph (1)).

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## Provisions and sources it draws on

- [Labor Tribunal Act, Arts. 1, 2, 7, 12, 17, 20, 24](https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/416AC0000000045) — on this site: https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-tribunal-act

## Where the laws use it

1 law in force uses it in this sense, in 11 provisions; there the word opens this explanation.

- [Labor Tribunal Act (労働審判法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-tribunal-act): 11 provisions, among them [Article 7](https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-tribunal-act/art-7), [Article 9](https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-tribunal-act/art-9), [Article 10](https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-tribunal-act/art-10)

## Related

- [Labor tribunal judge (労働審判官, ろうどうしんぱんかん)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/labor-tribunal-judge)
- [Labor tribunal member (労働審判員, ろうどうしんぱんいん)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/labor-tribunal-member)

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## Sources

- Explanation: Written for this site with AI (claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-04)
- 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 (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4897/tb)