Regulations for Implementing Labor-Management Meeting Article 10

All labor-management meeting representatives shall serve a 4-year term. The representatives for the labor side may serve a following term if reelected and the representatives for the management side may serve a following term if reappointed.The term of service of labor-management meeting representatives shall begin on the day following the expiration of the former term. However, the term of service of the representatives of the first term or those elected before the former term expires shall begin on the day following the election.Representatives for the management side may be re-designated when vacancies or changes of duty occur. When seats of representatives for the labor side become vacant or certain representatives are unable to exercise their duties, they shall be filled in by alternate representatives according to the arranged order.By-election shall be held when the number of alternate representatives for the labor side referred to the preceding paragraph is inadequate for replacement; except when the number of representatives for the management side is reduced to be equivalent to the number of representatives for the labor side.The replacement of representatives for the labor side by alternate representatives shall be conducted according to the following sequence:1. Representatives elected in accordance with Paragraph 2 of Article 3 shall be replaced by alternate representatives elected in the same election.2. When no elction is conducted separately, the sequence of replacement shall be determined according to the number of votes acquired by the candidates.