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<k_ele>
<keb>嘱託社員</keb>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>しょくたくしゃいん</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<gloss>contract employee (esp. one rehired after mandatory retirement)</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2023-03-04 14:09:05" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Brian Krznarich</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>委嘱 and 嘱託 currently have nearly identical glosses, but extremely different use cases.  This is the first step in trying to tease that out.

Google 嘱託社員 イラスト and you'll get pictures of old men working.

I personally find the term "entrusted employee" unhelpful, but this seems to be how the Japanese government officially translates this into English. (I have seen it in various places)

I chose "employee" specifically over "worker", as the role is generally to continue their previous tasks in some capacity.  Even in the non-post-retirement scenario, indications are that this is for the performance of internal company tasks (一定の業務), rather than something discrete that could be readily outsourced.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>daijs
https://www.weblio.jp/content/%E5%98%B1%E8%A8%97%E7%A4%BE%E5%93%A1
非正社員の一。多く、定年退職後に、同じ職場で有期の労働契約を結んで働く社員をいう。

嘱託社員
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%98%B1%E8%A8%97%E7%A4%BE%E5%93%A1

Overview of Non-regular Employment in Japan
Yutaka Asao
The Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training 
https://www.jil.go.jp/english/reports/documents/jilpt-reports/no.10_japan.pdf
· Contract employees: relatively long fixed-term, full-time, direct employment
· Entrusted employees: relatively long fixed-term, full-time, direct employment

Here, the differentiation between a contract employee and an entrusted employee
becomes an issue. In many cases, contract employees are further defined as employees
specifically hired to perform a specialized type of work whereas an entrusted employee is
often used to refer to a senior aged worker who is re-hired by his/her last employer after
his/her mandatory retirement

Footnote 4: However, these definitions do not necessarily match actual treatment of employees. There are many full-time
workers working a predetermined number of hours but being referred to as part-time workers or similar. In
addition, there are many contract employees who perform tasks other than a specialized type of job, as well as
entrusted employees who are relatively younger in age. 

https://www.eevocablog.com/contract-employee/
なお、「嘱託社員」は定年退職後に再雇用された人たちが多いと思いますので、その場合は rehired retired employee と表現するか、他の人も含む場合は special fixed-term employee とでも表現すればいいと思います。entrusted employee と表現しているサイトや文書もあります

https://www.kaonavi.jp/dictionary/syokutakusyain/
嘱託社員は、高齢者の雇用を継続させる動きが広がる中で注目されている雇用形態です。

On doctors, it seems 嘱託 may be used for part-time highly skilled contract arrangements, but probably not so much 嘱託社員。(嘱託医 instead, we have an entry for this)
https://w-c.co.jp/media/staff_training/2826/


Top 10 N-grams Lookup for 嘱託 (Frequency Order)
嘱託	259202	  
嘱託職員	35705	  
嘱託員	28362	  
嘱託社員	18900	  
嘱託医	18223	  
嘱託の	11597	  
嘱託を	10754	  
嘱託職員の	8194	  
嘱託員の	6303</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-03-07 10:41:14" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Trimming quite a bit. We don't have to follow clunky official translations.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>Reverso</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -12,2 +12,2 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;fixed-term, direct contract employee (esp. of those rehired after mandatory retirement)&lt;/gloss&gt;
-&lt;gloss&gt;entrusted employee&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;contract employee (esp. post-retirement)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;part-time employee&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-03-12 10:30:35" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Brian Krznarich</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>I can't think of a shorter way off-hand to simplify my original wording than this suggestion, and still keep the meaning. I'd really like to retain something like this...

Part of the reason I tried so hard to figure out this term was because it reflects the nuance of 嘱託. 

In this case, 嘱託社員 is *specifically* applied to keeping Japanese employees active in the same company they retired from (because specialized knowledge is still needed, for example). 

post-retirement-contract-employee has the risk of being read as "work program for old people", having lost the detail that they've remained with their former employer.

I'd personally leave off the "part-time employee" gloss entirely. You would never go from "part-time employee" to this term in the E-&gt;J direction, and it's really a small, and not-strictly-necessary detail in the J-&gt;E direction. I mean, of course contractors are often part-time.</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -12,2 +12 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;contract employee (esp. post-retirement)&lt;/gloss&gt;
-&lt;gloss&gt;part-time employee&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;contract employee (esp. one rehired after mandatory retirement)&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-03-12 21:10:42" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>OK</upd_detl>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>