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Employment Standards
Foreign nationals residing in Japan are subject to employment related laws. To protect labourers, who are often in a weak position, the Labour Standards Law requires employers to comply with the following standards of employment. Those who do not do so will be penalised for breaking the law.
[Excerpts from the Labour Standards Law]
* Employers shall not engage in discriminatory treatment with respect to wages, working hours or other working conditions by reason of the nationality, creed or social status of any worker.
* Employers shall not engage in discriminatory treatment of a woman as compared with a man with respect to wages by reason of the worker being a woman.
* Employers shall not force workers to work against their will by means of violence, intimidation, imprisonment, or any other unfair restraint on the mental or physical freedom of the workers.
* Unless permitted by law, no person shall obtain profit by intervening, as a business, in the employment of others. (This prevents intermediate exploitation, but provides for the withholding of taxes, etc.)
* Employers shall not have a worker work more than 40 hours per week, excluding rest periods. (However, overtime is permitted in some cases.)
* Annual leave with pay must be granted in accordance with the law.
* Employers shall not employ children until the first March 31 following their having fully reached the age of 15 years.
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