By Mary Jones, International Employment Specialist · Reviewed by Sarah Bloom, Editor · Updated
Yes, a worker-dispatch arrangement can operate under Japan’s permit system. If your proposal involves a supplier employing a person who works under your direction, establish whether it is worker dispatch and check the provider’s permit and the assignment conditions. Source ↗
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Yes, a worker-dispatch arrangement can operate under Japan’s permit system. If your proposal involves a supplier employing a person who works under your direction, establish whether it is worker dispatch and check the provider’s permit and the assignment conditions.
Distinguish a genuine outsourced service from supplying an individual to work under your management.
Sources: Japan MHLW: worker-dispatch business
The ordinary Labour Standards Act limits are eight hours per day and forty hours per week. Exceptions and lawful overtime arrangements require separate review.
Applies to: Japanese Labour Standards Act ordinary working hours
For your hire: Worker classification, industry exceptions, overtime agreement and premium rates
An employer generally must give at least thirty days’ dismissal notice or pay average wages for the missing notice days. Compliance with notice does not by itself make a dismissal legally valid.
Applies to: Japanese Labour Standards Act notice; statutory exceptions require checking
For your hire: Valid dismissal grounds, protected periods, exceptions and final settlement
Labour Contract Act article 8 permits agreed changes to employment terms. Articles 9 and 10 separately govern detrimental changes through work rules, including a reasonableness exception.
Applies to: Japanese employment contract changes; employee agreement is not the only statutory analysis for work-rule changes.
For your hire: Agreement, type of change, work-rule reasonableness, communication and collective terms
Sources: www.mhlw.go.jp
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