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Japan judges whether someone is a "worker" on the actual conditions of the work, not on what the contract is called. Here are the criteria the authorities apply, the two different ways an outsourcing arrangement fails, and what becomes payable retroactively when the classification flips.

Japanese law does not make dismissal impossible — Japan's own labour policy institute calls that claim "a gross exaggeration". Here is what the Labor Contracts Act requires, what an invalid dismissal costs, and why the risk in a first hire has little to do with whether firing is allowed.