Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2010, published 100th ILC session (2011)

Radiation Protection Convention, 1960 (No. 115) - Japan (Ratification: 1973)

The Committee notes the Government’s report including information that the Ordinance on Labour Standards for Women and Minors is now the “Ordinance on Labour Standards for Minors”.

Article 14 of the Convention. Alternative employment or other measures offered for maintaining income where continued assignment to work involving exposure is medically inadvisable. The Committee notes the reference made by the Government to section 59 of the Ordinance on Prevention of Ionizing Radiation Hazards which provides that the employer should take necessary measures to maintain the health of workers found, on the basis of medical examination, to have, or suspected to have, an actual or potential health impairment due to exposure to radiation. These measures may include a change of workplace or type of work, a shortening of the period of exposure, modification of work process, etc. until such health impairment or potential impairment are resolved. The Committee also notes the information that when workers covered by unemployment insurance have been removed from their jobs, they remain eligible to receive unemployment benefits if certain conditions are met. The Committee requests the Government to provide further information on the measures taken in relation to workers not covered by unemployment insurance, and on the conditions that have to be fulfilled to remain eligible to receive unemployment benefits, as well as information on the application of these provisions in practice.