Article 22Measures for Improving the Employment Environment and Managing Employment
第二十二条（雇用環境の整備及び雇用管理等に関する措置）
An employer must, for the purpose of smooth implementation of application for childcare leave, take any of the following measures:
事業主は、育児休業申出等が円滑に行われるようにするため、次の各号のいずれかの措置を講じなければならない。
provide training courses related to childcare leave to workers employed by that employer;
その雇用する労働者に対する育児休業に係る研修の実施
develop a system for consulting on childcare leave; or
育児休業に関する相談体制の整備
other measures to improve the employment environment for childcare leave specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
その他厚生労働省令で定める育児休業に係る雇用環境の整備に関する措置
Employers must take one of the measures set forth in the following items in order to ensure that applications for caregiver leave are made smoothly.
事業主は、介護休業申出が円滑に行われるようにするため、次の各号のいずれかの措置を講じなければならない。
Providing training relating to caregiver leave for workers employed by the employer
その雇用する労働者に対する介護休業に係る研修の実施
Establishing a system for consultation regarding caregiver leave
介護休業に関する相談体制の整備
Other measures relating to improving the employment environment for caregiver leave specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
その他厚生労働省令で定める介護休業に係る雇用環境の整備に関する措置
Beyond what is provided for in the preceding two paragraphs, employers must, for the purpose of smooth implementation of applications for childcare leave, applications for caregiver leave, and smooth return to work in following the childcare leave and caregiver leave, endeavor to take necessary measures with regard to the assignment of workers and other employment management at a place of business where workers who take childcare leave or caregiver leave are employed, and the development and improvement of the vocational ability of workers who are taking childcare leave or caregiver leave.
Employers must take one of the measures set forth in the following items in order to ensure that applications for systems, etc. for balancing work and caregiving are made smoothly.
事業主は、介護両立支援制度等申出が円滑に行われるようにするため、次の各号のいずれかの措置を講じなければならない。
Providing training relating to systems, etc. for balancing work and caregiving for workers employed by the employer
その雇用する労働者に対する介護両立支援制度等に係る研修の実施
Establishing a system for consultation regarding systems, etc. for balancing work and caregiving
介護両立支援制度等に関する相談体制の整備
Other measures relating to improving the employment environment for systems, etc. for balancing work and caregiving specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
その他厚生労働省令で定める介護両立支援制度等に係る雇用環境の整備に関する措置
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An employer must, for the purpose of smooth implementation of application for childcare leave, take any of the following measures:
事業主は、育児休業申出等が円滑に行われるようにするため、次の各号のいずれかの措置を講じなければならない。
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Employers must take one of the measures set forth in the following items in order to ensure that applications for caregiver leave are made smoothly.
事業主は、介護休業申出が円滑に行われるようにするため、次の各号のいずれかの措置を講じなければならない。
Open this provisionchildcare leavemachine translation
「育児休業」
Leave from work that a worker, other than one hired day by day, takes under Chapter II to raise their child — including a child they have asked the family court to adopt by special adoption (特別養子縁組) and a child placed with them as a prospective adoptive foster parent — as a rule until the child turns one, and in some cases up to two.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies throughout the law
caregiver leave
「介護休業」
Leave from work that a worker takes under Chapter III to care for an applicable family member (対象家族) in a condition requiring caregiving (要介護状態) — up to three times, and 93 days in total, for each family member (Article 11).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (ii)· applies throughout the law
application for childcare leave, etc.machine translation
「育児休業申出等」
An application for childcare leave (育児休業申出) or an application for parental leave (出生時育児休業申出).
Defined inArticle 10, paragraph (1)
application for caregiver leave
「介護休業申出」
A worker's application to the employer for caregiver leave (介護休業) under Article 11, paragraph 1, which must show that the family member is in a condition requiring caregiving (要介護状態) and give the first and last days of the leave.
Short name set inArticle 11, paragraph (3)
systems, etc. for balancing work and caregivingmachine translation
「介護両立支援制度等」
The systems or measures a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) specifies as helping a worker balance work and caring for a family member, which an employer — or, for its staff, the head of an agency engaged in administrative execution (行政執行法人) — must tell a worker about, along with caregiver leave (介護休業), once the worker reports that a family member has come to need their care (Articles 21, paragraph 4 and 61, paragraph 20).
Short name set inArticle 21, paragraph (4)· applies only in this article and in Article 22, paragraph (4)
application for systems, etc. for balancing work and caregivingmachine translation
「介護両立支援制度等申出」
A worker's application to the employer to use any of the systems or measures for balancing work and caregiving (介護両立支援制度等), which an employer must help to be made smoothly by training, a consultation system or another measure (Articles 21, paragraph 4 and 22, paragraph 4).
Short name set inArticle 21, paragraph (4)· applies only in this provision and in Article 22, paragraph (4)