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Part-Time Work Practices That Violate Laws

This page outlines prohibited recruitment, hiring, wage, and commercial practices for part-time work, with separate information for the applicable campuses and faculties.

Practices covered for the Faculty of Science and Engineering

For the 2026 academic year at the Saitama Hatoyama Campus, the following part-time work practices are listed as violating laws or regulations: recruitment or hiring that imposes different conditions according to sex; recruitment or hiring that sets separate numbers of positions by sex; recruitment or hiring limited to men only or women only; piece-rate work without a guaranteed fixed wage; and multilevel marketing or pyramid-scheme commercial practices. The three listed sex-based recruitment or hiring practices are covered by the Equal Employment Opportunity Act. Piece-rate work without a guaranteed fixed wage is covered by Article 27 of the Labor Standards Act, and multilevel marketing or pyramid-scheme commercial practices are covered by the Act on Prevention of Pyramid Schemes.

Practices covered for the Faculty of Engineering, Division II

For the 2026 academic year at the Tokyo Senju Campus, the following recruitment or hiring practices are listed as work violating laws and regulations: setting the number of positions separately by gender and imposing different conditions according to sex.

Official sources

The following official Tokyo Denki University materials were used to prepare this page.