Article 12Obligations of Employers when an Application for Caregiver Leave is Filed
第十二条（介護休業申出があった場合における事業主の義務等）
Employers may not, when an application for caregiver leave is filed by a worker, refuse the application for caregiver leave.
事業主は、労働者からの介護休業申出があったときは、当該介護休業申出を拒むことができない。
The provisions of the proviso of Article 6, paragraph (1) and the provisions of paragraph (2) of the same Article apply mutatis mutandis to cases where a worker files an application for caregiver leave. In this case, the term "the proviso of the preceding paragraph" in the same paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the proviso of the preceding paragraph, as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 12, paragraph (2)," and the term "paragraphs (1), (3) and (4) of the preceding Article" in the same paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "Article 11, paragraph (1)."
An employer may, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, in cases where a worker files an application for caregiver leave, when the scheduled start date for the caregiver leave in the application falls before the day on which two weeks from the day following the date of the application elapse (referred to as "two week expiry date" hereinafter in this paragraph), designate as the scheduled start date for the caregiver leave any day during the period from the scheduled start date for the caregiver leave until the two week expiry date.
The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs do not apply to cases where a worker files an application for caregiver leave prescribed in paragraph (4) of the preceding Article.