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I intend to introduce an additional payment system of the Japan. Labor Standards Act provides that an employer should pay an additional payment of more than twenty five percent of regular wage for extended work and night work and an additional payment of more than thirty five percent of regular wage for paid holiday work per week(only one day per week. hereinafter referred to paid holiday work) in Section 37(1). Simultaneously where an employer failed to pay the additional payment to an employee concerned, the Court should order the additional payment and could order liquidated damages less than or equal to the additional payment(LSA Section 114) with its discretion. Special features of the additional payment system are as follows: First, according to interpretation of the Labor Administration, a holiday work means only paid holiday work which is generally a Sunday work. So even where an employee does a paid holiday work, an employer does not need to pay an additional payment for extended work but only needs to pay an additional payment of more than thirty five percent of regular wage for the work. Second, where an employee does a night work(generally from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m.), an employer should pay an additional payment for night work to an employee concerned. Furthermore, where the extended work gets to the night work, an employer should pay an additional payment both for extended work and for night work. Third, where an employee does an extended work in excess of eight hours in a day or forty hours in a week on holidays that are not paid holidays, an employer should pay the additional payment for extended work as well.