일본의 노사위원회 제도에 관한 일고찰 - 근로자대표제도 개선에 관한 노사정 합의문 발표를 계기로 -

This study reviews the labor-management committee system in Japan with the announcement of the tripartite committee agreement on the improvement of the workers' representative system in October 2020, and intends to an accurate understanding of the Japanese labor- management committee system, and to a comparative legal basis for discussion of the employee representative system through this. Through the “meeting of workers' members” in the October 2020 agreement, it stipulates the standing committee and pluralization of workers' representative, which is similar to the labor-management committee under the Japanese Labor Standards Act. In addition, when there is a majority union, the status of their workers' representative is recognized, but when a majority union does not exist, the labor- management council(to be precise, meeting of workers' members), which is the representative by the election of the employees, has the status as a representative. It is similar in that it functions as a workers' representative. However, in addition to this similarity, labor-management committee system in Japan has an important position in the future planning of the employee representative system. At the time of its introduction, the labor-management committee in Japan was defined as a system with various possibilities of its functional expansion. However, in reality, various intentions have not been realized and remain as a legal system under the Labor Standards Act in Japan. In spite of this reality, it has meaning as an existing legal representative in Japan, and there is a possibility that it will develop into an employee representative system in the future. Coordination of roles and functions of the labor-management council in Korea or labor-management committee in Japan will be an important task in the discussion of the employee representative system, and a close review is required.