IPA IP 2024 Question 32
A question IPA Japan published in 令和6年度 ITパスポート試験 公開問題 問32, translated into English. ITPEC is based on the same exams.
Which of the following is an appropriate description concerning the employment relationship of a dispatched worker in worker dispatching?
Explanation
Employed by the dispatching company only — in worker dispatching, the worker's employment contract is with the dispatching company, while the client company only directs the work.
Worker dispatching (in Japan, governed by the Worker Dispatching Act) involves three parties:
- •Dispatching company — employs the worker: it signs the employment contract and pays the wages
- •Client company — the company the worker is dispatched to; it gives instructions on the work under a worker dispatch contract with the dispatching company
- •Dispatched worker — employed by one, works under the direction of the other
So there is an employment relationship with the dispatching company and a relationship of direction and command, not employment, with the client company.
Answer (b)
Why not others:
- •(a) — reverses the roles: the client company directs the work but does not employ the worker
- •(c) — the client company has no employment contract with the worker; only the dispatching company is the employer
- •(d) — the dispatching company does employ the worker; with no employer at all, nobody would owe wages or social insurance
Key rule: In dispatching, employment is with the dispatching company and direction comes from the client company; in a contract for work, both stay with the contractor.
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