Equal Employment Opportunity Law
The Equal Employment Opportunity Law is commonly known as "Act on Securing, Etc. of Equal Opportunity and Treatment between Men and Women in Employment". The objective is to ensure equal opportunities and treatment between men and women in employment, and to promote measures to ensure the health of women workers during pregnancy and after childbirth.
The basic philosophy is to ensure that women workers are not discriminated against on the basis of sex, and that they can lead fulfilling working lives while respecting their motherhood
This law's basic philosophy is to ensure that women workers are not discriminated against on the basis of sex, and that they can lead fulfilling working lives while respecting their motherhood.
In Japan, the ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in 1986 required improvements to domestic laws, so the Labor Women's Welfare Act (1972) was amended and enacted in 1985. Since then, it has been amended several times. The law prohibits employers from discriminating on the basis of gender when recruting and hiring workers, or when assigning, promoting, providing vocational training, providing benefits, or discharging employees.
The law changed the names of stewardess and nursing women to flight attendants and nurses, respectively.
When the law went into effect in 1986, many of the provisions were limited to effort regulations. However, under the " Revised Equal Employment Opportunity Law" enacted in 1999, it became a prohibition. In addition, the report includes the employer's obligation to give consideration to employment management in order to prevent sexual harassment and details of positive actions (positive improvement measures).
After that, the 2007 revision stipulated the prohibition of disadvantageous treatment due to childbirth and childcare, and the 1999 revision prohibited discrimination and sexual harassment against men. In addition, a 2017 revision prohibited maternity harassment.
Positive Action
It is an initiative to eliminate the difference in treatment between male and female workers, such as establishing a branch consisting only of women because the number of female workers in the company is small.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Law aims to ensure equal opportunities and treatment between men and women and to ensure health during pregnancy and after childbirth.
At the time of the enforcement of the law, it was a provision for efforts, but after the law was revised, it became a provision for prohibition and various contents were added.