Employment Measures Law
The Employment Measures Law is now called the " Act on Comprehensive Promotion of Labor Policies and Employment Security and Improvement of Working Life for Workers" and aims to enable job seekers to find jobs according to their abilities and aptitudes, rather than their age.
In response to changes in economic and social conditions such as changes in the population structure caused by the declining birthrate and aging population, the government aims to stabilize the employment of workers and improve their economic and social status by enabling them to exercise their abilities.
Furthermore, the objective is to achieve full employment by promoting economic and social development and the balance of labor supply and demand and to develop the economy as a whole by utilizing the abilities of workers and leading to the stabilization of workers' lives, in other words, the improvement of their economic and social status.
On July 6, 2018, the name of the law was changed from (Established in 1966) to "Act on Comprehensive Promotion of Labor Policies and Employment Security and Improvement of Working Life for Workers" and some of its contents were revised.
Article one of the Act on the Comprehensive Promotion of Labor Policies and the Stabilization of Employment and Improvement of Working Life of Workers stipulates that the national government shall implement employment measures from various fields such as population problems.
Article1: The purpose of this Act is for the national government to facilitate proper functioning in the labor market in order to strike a balance in terms of both quality and quantity between labor supply and demand, as well as to enable workers to make effective use of their abilities by comprehensively taking the necessary measures for employment in response to the demographic changes caused by the declining birthrate and the aging of the population as well as other changes in economic and social circumstances, thereby creating employment security for workers and improving workers' economic and social status, as well as contributing to economic and social development and the achievement of full employment.
In order to achieve the purpose set forth in paragraph (1) of Article 1, the national government must comprehensively take any necessary measures, in accordance with the basic principles prescribed in the preceding Article with respect to the following particulars:
(i) enhancing measures for vocational guidance and employment placement, in order to help all persons find employment suited to their abilities and meet industry's labor demand;
(ii) enhancing measures for vocational training and vocational skills testing, in order to enable all persons to acquire skills and knowledge suited to their abilities, in line with changes such as advances in technology and changes in the structure of industry, and to be properly evaluated for their acquired skills and knowledge;
(iii) enhancing measures necessary to support workers during a change of jobs, during a move from one place to another, in adapting to the workplace, and in other endeavors, in order to enable workers that have difficulty finding employment to do so, and to rectify imbalances between labor supply and demand;
The "Act on Comprehensive Promotion of Labor Policies and Employment Security and Improvement of Working Life for Workers" aims to stabilize the employment of workers and improve their economic and social status amid the changing social situation.