Article 1The cases specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare that are referred to in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Improvement of Personnel Management and Conversion of Employment Status for Part-Time Workers and Fixed-Term Workers (Act No. 76 of 1993; hereinafter referred to as "the Act") are those in which workers with standard employment statuses employed by an employer are engaged in two or more kinds of work, and other workers employed by that employer engage in one of those kinds of work that involves a significantly larger number of the other workers than the number of those workers with standard employment statuses engaged in the same kind of work (except the kind of work for which the prescribed weekly working hours of workers with standard employment statuses engaged in the work are longer than the prescribed weekly working hours of any of the other workers with standard employment statuses engaged in other kinds of work).

Article 2(1)The particulars of the working conditions that an employer must make explicit to part-time/fixed-term workers which are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as referred to in Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Act are:

(2)An employer must not indicate a working condition that it is required to make explicit to a part-time/fixed-term worker pursuant to the provisions of Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Act to be something that differs from the truth.

(3)The means specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare that is referred to in Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Act is whichever of the following means of making explicit the particulars set forth in the items of paragraph (1) the part-time/fixed-term worker has requested, if applicable:

(4)An explicit indication of the specified particulars provided for in Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Act (in this paragraph referred to as the "specified particulars") that has been made by the means referred to in item (i) of the preceding paragraph is deemed to reach the relevant part-time/fixed-term worker when it is received by a facsimile machine that is used by the part-time/fixed-term worker; an explicit indication of specified particulars that has been made by the means referred to in item (ii) of the preceding paragraph is deemed to reach the part-time/fixed-term worker when it is received by a telecommunications terminal or other such device that is used by the part-time/fixed-term worker.

Article 3The wages specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare that are referred to in Article 10 of the Act are commutation allowances, family allowances, housing allowances, family separation allowances, child education allowances, and other wages that are paid (other than wages paid that are closely linked to the worker's job description (meaning a job description as provided in Article 8 of the Act)), regardless of what they are called.

Article 4The cases specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare that are referred to in Article 11, paragraph (1) of the Act are those in which a part-time/fixed-term worker whose job description is the same as that of a worker with a standard employment status employed by the same employer (but not a part-time/fixed term worker equivalent to a worker with a standard employment status as provided in Article 9 of the Act) already has the abilities needed for the job in question.

Article 5The workplace facilities specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare that are referred to in Article 12 of the Act are:

Article 6The number specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare that is referred to in Article 17 of the Act is 10 persons.

Article 7An employer is to appoint a person who will manage the things provided for in Article 17 of the Act from among persons who are found to have the knowledge and experience needed to manage them, as the part-time/fixed-term employment manager.

Article 8Except as concerns matters that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds to be of national importance, the director of the prefectural labour bureau that has jurisdiction over the locality of an employer's place of business is to exercise the authority of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as provided in Article 18, paragraph (1) of the Act.

Article 9The provisions of Articles 3 through 12 of the Regulation for Enforcement of the Act on Securing, Etc. of Equal Opportunity and Treatment between Men and Women in Employment (Ministry of Labor Order No. 2 of 1986) apply mutatis mutandis to conciliation proceedings as referred to in Article 25, paragraph (1) of the Act. In such a case, the phrase "Article 18, paragraph (1) of the Act" in Article 3, paragraph (1) of that Order is deemed to be replaced with "Article 25, paragraph (1) of the Act on Improvement of Personnel Management and Conversion of Employment Status for Part-Time Workers and Fixed-Term Workers (hereinafter referred to as the 'Part-Time/Fixed-Term Workers Act')"; the phrase "conciliation meeting for equal opportunity" in that paragraph, and Article 4 (including the heading), Article 5 (including the heading), and Article 8, paragraph (1) of that Order is deemed to be replaced with "conciliation meeting for balanced treatment"; the phrases "Article 18, paragraph (1) of the Act" and "workplace" in Article 6 of that Order are deemed to be respectively replaced with "Article 25, paragraph (1) of the Part-Time/Fixed-Term Workers Act" and "place of business"; the phrase "Article 20, paragraph (1) of the Act" in Article 8, paragraph (1) and (3) of that Order is deemed to be replaced with "Article 20, paragraph (1) of the Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 26 of the Part-Time/Fixed-Term Workers Act"; the phrase "Article 20, paragraph (1) of the Act" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "in that paragraph"; the phrase "relevant parties" in Article 9 of that Order is deemed to be replaced with "relevant parties or workers employed at the same place of business as the relevant parties, and other witnesses"; the phrases "Article 4, paragraph (1) and (2)" and "Article 8" in Article 10, paragraph (1) of that Order are deemed to be respectively replaced with "Article 4, paragraph (1) and (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 9 of the Regulation for Enforcement of the Act on Improvement of Personnel Management and Conversion of Employment Status for Part-Time Workers and Fixed-Term Workers" and "Article 8 as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 9 of that Order"; the phrase "Article 21 of the Act" in Article 11, paragraph (1) of that Order is deemed to be replaced with "Article 21 of the Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 26 of the Part-Time/Fixed-Term Workers Act"; and the terms "workers" and "workplace" in the appended form of that Order are deemed to be respectively replaced with "part-time/fixed-term workers" and "place of business".