Japan Labor Issues
Non-regular employment
2026
2025
2024
- Freelance Act Comes into Effect in November 2024 (PDF:707KB)
- Changes and Continuity in Non-regular Employment in Japan: Improved General Situation, Yet Persistent Gender Structure (PDF:789KB)
2023
- The 6th JILPT Tokyo Comparative Labor Policy Seminar 2023 “Current Situation and Challenges of Inequality in Society: Overcoming Social Divisions towards the Post-COVID-19 Era” (PDF:3.9MB)
- Non-Regular Employment Measures in Japan (PDF:1.2MB)
- Is a Part-time Instructor Whose Role is Exclusively to Teach University Language Classes a "Researcher"?
The Senshu University (Conversion of a Fixed-Term Labor Contract to an Indefinite-term Labor Contract) Case (PDF:626KB) - Disguised Contracting and the Deemed Labor Contract Application by the Client under Item 5 of Paragraph 1 of Article 40-6 of the Worker Dispatching Act
The Tori Case (PDF:255KB)
2022
- The 5th JILPT Tokyo Comparative Labor Policy Seminar 2022 “The Impact of COVID-19 on Labor Market and Policy Responses ― Strengthening Social Protection for Vulnerable Workers” (PDF:3.34MB)
- Regional Extension of Collective Agreements under Article 18 of the Labor Union Act
The Regional Extension Decision by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare on September 22, 2021 (PDF:225KB) - Labor Law Policy on Freelance Work (PDF:256KB)
2021
- Reduction in the Shifts of a Non-standard Shift Worker
The Silverheart Case (PDF:229KB) - Illegality of the Disparity in Working Conditions between Hourly Paid Fixed-term Contract Employees and Monthly Paid Regular Employees
The Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University (former Osaka Medical University) Case (PDF:240KB) - Accommodation and Food Services Workers amid the COVID-19 Crisis in Japan (PDF:695KB)
- Job Separation and Reemployment amid the COVID-19 Crisis in Japan (PDF:1.47MB)
- How Women Bear the Brunt of COVID-19's Damages on Work (Continued, Part II): Catch Up With Men on the Employment Recovery (PDF:1.23MB)
- Working Hours under the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan: Reviewing Changes by Situation Phase during and after the 2020 State of Emergency Declaration (PDF:473KB)
- How Women Bear the Brunt of COVID-19’s Damages on Work (Continued): The Gender Gap in Employment Recovery (PDF:514KB)
- How Women Bear the Brunt of COVID-19’s Damages on Work (PDF:476KB)
2020
- Diminished Non-regular Employment, Solid Regular Employment: What Impacts Did the “First Wave” of the COVID-19 Pandemic Have in Japan? (PDF:307KB)
- What Impacts is the COVID-19 Crisis Having on Work and Daily Life? —From the Results of "Survey on the Impact that Spreading Novel Coronavirus Infection has on Work and Daily Life" (May 2020 Survey) (PDF:513KB)
- Decreased Working Hours and Impact on Wages: A Look Back at the Novel Coronavirus’s “First Wave” in Japan (PDF:499KB)
- Wage Disparities between Standard and Non-standard Employees: From the Perspective of Human Resource Management (PDF:291KB)
- Legal Issues Surrounding Employment-like Working Styles: Disguised Employment and Dependent Self-employment (PDF:479KB)
- Akiomi Kitagawa, Souichi Ohta, and Hiroshi Teruyama, The Changing Japanese Labor Market: Theory and Evidence (PDF:234KB)
2019
- MHLW's Interim Report on Points of Controversy regarding Employment-like Work Styles (PDF:353KB)
- Japanese Policy regarding Employment-like Working Styles (PDF:169KB)
- Legal Regulation of Unreasonable Treatment of Non-regular Employees in Japan (PDF:231KB)
- Who Holds Multiple Jobs? Empirical Analysis of Multiple Job Holding Using a Japanese Online Survey (PDF:432KB)
- Can "Owners" of Convenience Stores be "Workers" under the Japanese Labor Union Act? (PDF:280KB)
2018
- The 2nd JILPT Tokyo Comparative Labor Policy Seminar 2018 "Looking back at the policy responses to changes in employment structure and forms―The future as seen from here" (PDF:3.15MB)
- New Rules of Conversion from Fixed-term to Open-ended Contracts: Companies' Approaches to Compliance and the Subsequent Policy Developments (PDF:359KB)
- Fixed-Term Contract Employees and Intra-Firm Wage Gaps: Focusing on the Reasons Why Companies Use Them (PDF:484KB)
- A Legal Study on Equal or Balanced Treatment for Regular and Non-Regular Workers in Japan: With Particular Focus on the Relationship between Anti-Discrimination Principle and Policy-Based Regulations for Equal or Balanced Treatment (PDF:315KB)
2017
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