Japanese legal systems and employment practices are often unfamiliar to foreign workers. For this reason, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) has issued support tools to help explain workplace rules, including the reasons and background, to deepen understanding.

◆”Key Points and Examples for Labor Management in Workplaces with Foreign Employees”
The book covers nine themes such as recruitment, wages, working hours, etc., and provides for each actual situation that can be assumed in employment management:
(1) Points that should be read and understood before explaining to non-Japanese employees
(2) Examples of explanations in “easy Japanese” that can actually be spoken and shown to foreign nationals as they are.
For example, regarding documents to be submitted by workers after being hired, it is explained with rubi annotations that “In Japan, the company will calculate taxes and insurance on your behalf. Please provide the company with the necessary information so that we can do this for you.”

◆Multilingual Glossary for Employment Management
This glossary provides definitions and example sentences for approximately 420 labor- and social insurance-related terms commonly used in hr and labor management situations. In addition to easy Japanese, 9 languages (English, Korean, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Tagalog, Vietnamese, Nepali, Portuguese, Spanish, Indonesian, Cambodian, Thai, Myanmarese, and Mongolian) are supported.
When explaining employment regulations, etc. to foreign workers, it is expected to search for terms that may be difficult to understand and provide translations, or to be used by the foreign employees themselves as a dictionary and for pre-employment learning of hr and labor-related terms.

◆Model Employment Regulations, etc.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare’s Model Employment Regulations are also available in foreign languages. In addition, there is a “Working Conditions Handbook” for foreign nationals working in Japan, as well as educational materials and resources useful for preventing work-related accidents involving foreign workers.

[Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, “Are you having trouble explaining hr and labor issues to foreign nationals?”]
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/seisakunitsuite/bunya/koyou_roudou/koyou/jigyounushi/tagengoyougosyu.html

[Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, “Safety and Health Management for Foreign Workers”]
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/seisakunitsuite/bunya/0000186714.html