A law in Japan that governs temporary employment. The law was first enacted in the 1980s and later amended throughout the years. Most recently, an amendment to the worker dispatch law approved in March 2012 adds restrictions and prohibits temporary assignments of less than 30 days in many cases. It also urges employers to give temporary workers the same pay as regular workers if the temps are doing the same work. However, a rule that would ban temporary staffing in the manufacturing sector was not included, as it was in the original proposal for the law.