Article 16-3Obligations of Employers when an Application for Short-term Leave for Sick/Injured Childcare, etc. is Filed
第十六条の三（子の看護等休暇の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 pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is filed by a worker, refuse the application.
事業主は、労働者からの前条第一項の規定による申出があったときは、当該申出を拒むことができない。
The provisions of the proviso to Article 6, paragraph (1) (limited to the part pertaining to item (ii)) and the provisions of paragraph (2) of the same Article apply mutatis mutandis to cases where a worker files an application pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article. In this case, the term "a person specified ... " in that item is deemed to be replaced with "a person specified ... or, in light of the nature of the work or the work system, a worker who is engaged in work for which it is considered difficult to take short-term leave for sick/injured childcare, etc. in a unit of less than one day as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare pursuant to Article 16-2, paragraph (2) (limited to a person who intends to take short-term leave in a unit of less than one day as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph) "; the term "the proviso of the preceding paragraph" in Article 6, paragraph (2) is deemed to be replaced with "the proviso of the preceding paragraph, as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 16-3, paragraph (2)"; and the term "paragraphs (1), (3) and (4) of the preceding Article" in paragraph (2) of the same Article is deemed to be replaced with "Article 16-2, paragraph (1)."
第六条第一項ただし書（第二号に係る部分に限る。）及び第二項の規定は、労働者からの前条第一項の規定による申出があった場合について準用する。この場合において、同号中「定めるもの」とあるのは「定めるもの又は業務の性質若しくは業務の実施体制に照らして、第十六条の二第二項の厚生労働省令で定める一日未満の単位で子の看護等休暇を取得することが困難と認められる業務に従事する労働者（同項の規定による厚生労働省令で定める一日未満の単位で取得しようとする者に限る。）」と、第六条第二項中「前項ただし書」とあるのは「第十六条の三第二項において準用する前項ただし書」と、「前条第一項、第三項及び第四項」とあるのは「第十六条の二第一項」と読み替えるものとする。