The Abe administration on Friday approved a bill that would revise the labor law to hopefully improve conditions for part-time workers and plans to submit it to the Diet this legislative session.

Current law requires employers to treat part-time and regular workers equally if they are engaged in the same work, are subject to the same kind of job transfers, including relocation, and are hired indefinitely.

The proposed revision is designed to apply this same rule to part-timers hired on fixed-term employment contracts.