Learn in the textbookLabor-Related Laws and Regulations
DefinitionThe Worker Dispatch Act (労働者派遣法) covers worker dispatch, in which a worker employed by a dispatching agency (a staffing company) works under the direction of a client company (where the work is actually done), and sets rules for running such businesses properly and protecting dispatched workers.
ExplanationThe dispatching agency and the client company sign a worker dispatch contract, and it is the dispatching agency, as the employer, that pays the worker. A contract for work, by contrast, is one where the contractor directs its own workers to finish the job; if the ordering party gives instructions directly to the contractor's workers, it becomes disguised contracting, which is dispatch in substance but escapes dispatch rules. Double dispatch, where a client sends a dispatched worker it has received on to yet another company, is prohibited.
AnalogyPicture someone who stays on the books of their own office but goes out to another site and works under the site manager's directions. Their pay still comes from their own office.