Working Hours
- Japanese
- 労働時間
40 hours per week, 8 hours per day is prescribed.
44 hours a week is the absolute maximum in industries such as retail, restaurants, hotels, real estate management, hospitals, and fitness.
Benefits, Systems
Definition
The working hours that a worker works for a company under the direction of a business operator. Excludes breaks.
Persons to whom the rules for working hours do not apply
- Persons engaged in agriculture (excluding forestry) or taking care of animals
- Managers and supervisors , a person who is in the position of supervision or management regardless of the type of business or who handles confidential office work
- Persons engaged in monitoring or intermittent labor, whose business operator has obtained permission from the Labor Standards Inspection Office.
Certification of working hours such as waiting time
Only when a worker is guaranteed to leave the work-site are they be deemed not under the command of the employer.
Even during nap time, if it is necessary to respond to customers in the middle of the nap time, it is often counted as 'working hours'. Specific judgments are also made in individual cases in a court of law.
Special working hours
There is a system that allows employees to work beyond the maximum of working hours. In order to apply these, it is necessary to mention this in the Employment Regulations-C64 and notify the Labor Standards Inspection Office.