I hereby promulgate the Law for Partial Amendments to the Labor Relations Adjustment Law.
Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This first day of the sixth month of the twentyfourth year of Showa (June 1, 1949)
Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Law for Partial Amendments to the Labor Relations Adjustment Law
The Labor Relations Adjustment Law (Law No.25 of 1946) shall be partially amended as follows:
In Article 8 paragraph 2 "The competent Minister" and "in accordance with the decision of the Central Labor Relations Committee" shall be amended respectively as "The Prime Minister" and "with approval of the Diet" ;in paragraph 4 of the same Article, "the competent Minister" and "the second paragraph" shall be amended respectively as "the Prime Minister" and "the preceding paragraph" ;and paragraph 3 of the same Article shall be deleted.
In Article 9, "the administrative authority" shall be amended as "the prefectural governor (as regards the seamen covered by the Seamen's Law (Law No.100 of 1947), the chief of the Maritime Transportation Bureau. The same shall apply hereinafter)" .
The following one paragraph shall be added in Article 11:
"No conciliator who is a member of a Panel of Conciliators may be a regular member of the Labor Relations Commission."
In Article 17, "Article 27 paragraph 1 item (3) of the Trade Union Law" shall be amended as "Article 20 of the Trade Union Law" .
In Article 18 paragraph 1 item (5), "the administrative authority" shall be amended as "the Labor Minister (as regards the seamen covered by the Seamen's Law, the Transportation Minister) or the prefectural governor" , and paragraphs 2 and 3 of the same Article shall be deleted.
In Article 19, Article 21 paragraph 1 item (3) and in Article 22 "the neutral members" shall be amended as "the members representing the public interest" .
The following three paragraphs shall be added in Article 26:
"If the proposal for settlement presented under the preceding paragraph is accepted by both parties and thereafter disagreement arises over interpretation or implementation of the settlement, the party concerned shall request to present the clarification to the Mediation Commission."
"The Mediation Commission shall present to the parties concerned the clarification of the interpretation or implementation concerning requested issues within a period of 15 days after the request is made."
"Until the clasification has been presented in accordance with the preceding paragraph, neither of the parties concerned shall resort to acts of dispute,provided that this shall not apply to the case when the period provided for in the preceding paragraph is expired."
In Article 29, "Article 27 paragraph 1 item (3) of the Trade Union Law" shall be amended as "Article 20 of the Trade Union Law" .
The following one paragraph shall be added in Article 37:
"As regards a public welfare work, in the event that a mutually acceptable proposal for settlement provides for continued negotiation on various issues, acts of dispute concerning the issues shall be disallowed until the prerequisites set forth in the preceding paragraph have again been met."
Article 38 shall be amended as follows:
In paragraph 1 of Article 39, "the preceding two paragraphs," shall be amended as "Article 37" ;and in the same paragraph and paragraph 3 of the same Article, "10,000 yen" shall be amended as "one hundred thousand yen."
In Article 40, "for having performed acts of dispute or" and the proviso to the same Article shall be deleted.
In Article 41, "500 yen." shall be amended as "fifty thousand yen."
Supplementary Provisions:
1. The date of the enforcement of this Law shall be within 30 days after the promulgation of this Law, and shall be fixed by a Cabinet Order.
2. Article 26, paragraphs 2 to 4 inclusive shall not be applicable to a proposal for settlement advanced prior to the enforcement of this Law in accordance with the provision of Article 26 of the former law before amendment.
3. As for the penalties for the violation of Articles 37 and 40 of the former law before amendment done before the enforcement of this Law, the former provision shall be applicable.
Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Attorney-General UEDA Shunkichi
Minister of Transportation OYA Shinzo
Minister of Labor SUZUKI Masabumi