Act on Childcare Leave, Caregiver Leave, and Other Measures for the Welfare of Workers Caring for Children or Other Family Members
育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律
Every term this law . Its definitions bind only this law — each entry says where the definition applies and links to the sentence that settles it. 116 terms: 46 with the Ministry of Justice's English, 70 in our translation, marked as such.
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.
労働者（日々雇用される者を除く。以下この条、次章から第八章まで、第二十一条から第二十四条まで、第二十五条第一項、第二十五条の二第一項及び第三項、第二十六条、第二十八条、第二十九条並びに第十一章において同じ。）が、次章に定めるところにより、その子（民法（明治二十九年法律第八十九号）第八百十七条の二第一項の規定により労働者が当該労働者との間における同項に規定する特別養子縁組の成立について家庭裁判所に請求した者（当該請求に係る家事審判事件が裁判所に係属している場合に限る。）であって当該労働者が現に監護するもの、児童福祉法（昭和二十二年法律第百六十四号）第二十七条第一項（同項第三号に係る部分に限る。）の規定により同法第六条の四第二号に規定する養子縁組里親である労働者に委託されている児童及びこれらの労働者に準ずる者として厚生労働省令で定める労働者に厚生労働省令で定めるところにより委託されている者を含む。第四号を除き、以下同じ。）を養育するためにする休業
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).
労働者が、第三章に定めるところにより、その要介護状態にある対象家族を介護するためにする休業
An applicable family member (対象家族) — a spouse, parent, child or spouse's parent — or another relative a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) specifies.
対象家族その他厚生労働省令で定める親族
In Article 61, an incorporated administrative agency (独立行政法人) of the kind Article 2, paragraph 4 of the Act on General Rules for Incorporated Administrative Agencies defines: one set up by its own Act to carry out public work closely tied to the national government's administration, under substantial government involvement, against a plan for targets the government sets for each business year.
A worker's application to the employer for childcare leave (育児休業) under Article 5, paragraph 1, 3 or 4, giving the first and last days of the leave.
出生時育児休業
A form of childcare leave (育児休業), for a period of up to four weeks, taken within the window from the child's birth or expected date of birth, whichever is earlier, until the day after eight weeks have passed from whichever is later; as a rule a worker can take it no more than twice, and for 28 days in total, for one child (Article 9-2).
育児休業のうち、この条から第九条の五までに定めるところにより、子の出生の日から起算して八週間を経過する日の翌日まで（出産予定日前に当該子が出生した場合にあっては当該出生の日から当該出産予定日から起算して八週間を経過する日の翌日までとし、出産予定日後に当該子が出生した場合にあっては当該出産予定日から当該出生の日から起算して八週間を経過する日の翌日までとする。次項第一号において同じ。）の期間内に四週間以内の期間を定めてする休業
労働時間
In Article 17, the working hours that Article 36, paragraph 1 of the Labor Standards Act lets an employer extend under a written labor-management agreement — the statutory working-hour limits of Articles 32 to 32-5 and 40 of that Act.
A worker's spouse (including a partner in a marriage not registered but lived as one), parents and children — with people a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) treats as equivalent to them — and the spouse's parents.
配偶者（婚姻の届出をしていないが、事実上婚姻関係と同様の事情にある者を含む。以下同じ。）、父母及び子（これらの者に準ずる者として厚生労働省令で定めるものを含む。）並びに配偶者の父母
The first day of childcare leave (育児休業) that a worker gives when applying for it (Article 5, paragraph 6); for an extension past the child's first birthday or 18-month date, it must as a rule be the day after that date.
地方公共団体等の職員
In Article 61-2, a local public employee in the regular service (一般職) — the employees the Local Public Service Act covers under its Article 4, paragraph 1.
地方公共団体等の職員
In Article 61-2, a local public employee in the regular service (一般職) — the employees the Local Public Service Act covers under its Article 4, paragraph 1.
In Articles 61 and 61-2, an applicable family member (対象家族) of a staff member who, because of injury, illness, or physical or mental disability, has difficulty in daily life over the period a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets for a condition requiring caregiving (要介護状態).
The last day of childcare leave (育児休業) that a worker gives when applying for it (Article 5, paragraph 6).
出生時育児休業申出
A worker's application to the employer for parental leave (出生時育児休業) under Article 9-2, paragraph 1, giving the first and last days of the leave.
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.
Leave from work that a staff member of an agency engaged in administrative execution (行政執行法人) takes, with the agency head's approval, to care for a family member requiring caregiving (要介護家族), within periods the head designates of no more than three times and 93 days in total for each continuing spell of need (Article 61, paragraphs 3 and 4).
Leave a worker can take, on application to the employer, to care for a family member in a condition requiring caregiving (要介護状態) or to look after them in another way a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets — up to five working days a year, or ten where two or more family members are in that condition, the year running from April to March unless the employer sets otherwise (Article 16-5).
This Act as amended by Act No. 118 of 2001.
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 160 of 2004.
This Act as amended by Article 2 of Act No. 65 of 2009.
任命権者等
For local public employees, the appointing authority (任命権者) under Article 6, paragraph 1 of the Local Public Service Act — such as the head of the local government, a board of education or a fire chief — or a person it has delegated to; for school staff whose pay the prefecture bears (県費負担教職員), the municipal board of education (Article 61-2).
任命権者等
For local public employees, the appointing authority (任命権者) under Article 6, paragraph 1 of the Local Public Service Act — such as the head of the local government, a board of education or a fire chief — or a person it has delegated to; for school staff whose pay the prefecture bears (県費負担教職員), the municipal board of education (Article 61-2).
Leave a worker raising a child who has not yet passed the first 31 March after reaching nine years of age can take, on application to the employer, to look after the child when injured or sick, for care a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets to prevent illness, for a school closure to prevent infection under Article 20 of the School Health and Safety Act or a similar event the Order sets, or to attend a school or childcare event the Order sets — up to five working days a year, or ten for two or more such children (Article 16-2).
The period during which a worker who has applied for childcare leave (育児休業) may be on it: from the scheduled start date to the scheduled end date, or to the changed end date where it has been changed (Article 9).
The last day of the limited period (制限期間) that a worker gives when asking the employer to limit work beyond scheduled hours, overtime or late-night work (Articles 16-8, 17 and 19).
The last day of the limited period (制限期間) that a worker gives when asking the employer to limit work beyond scheduled hours, overtime or late-night work (Articles 16-8, 17 and 19).
The last day of the limited period (制限期間) that a worker gives when asking the employer to limit work beyond scheduled hours, overtime or late-night work (Articles 16-8, 17 and 19).
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).
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).
要介護状態
A condition in which a person needs constant care, over a period a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets, because of injury, illness, or physical or mental disability.
負傷、疾病又は身体上若しくは精神上の障害により、厚生労働省令で定める期間にわたり常時介護を必要とする状態
出生時育児休業開始予定日
The first day of parental leave (出生時育児休業) that a worker gives when applying for it (Article 9-2, paragraph 3).
特定非常勤職員
In Article 61, a staff member of an agency engaged in administrative execution (行政執行法人) who is not required to work full time, other than one holding a short-time post (短時間勤務の官職) under Article 60-2, paragraph 1 of the National Public Service Act — a post with shorter normal weekly hours than a full-time post of the same kind, filled by re-employing people who retired at 60 or older.
The date Act No. 160 of 2004, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
The date Act No. 65 of 2009, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
The date Act No. 42 of 2024, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
The day a worker's child reaches one year of age — the point up to which childcare leave (育児休業) is normally taken, and after which it can be extended only in the cases Article 5, paragraph 3 sets.
出生時育児休業期間
The period during which a worker who has applied for parental leave (出生時育児休業) may be on it: from the scheduled start date — or the day the employer designated, or the changed start date — to the scheduled end date, or the changed end date (Article 9-5, paragraph 1).
Work done at the worker's home, or at another place set as equivalent to a home by the labor contract (労働契約), a collective agreement (労働協約), the work rules (就業規則) or similar — for staff of an agency engaged in administrative execution (行政執行法人), by a collective agreement, the work rules or similar (Article 23, paragraph 2, item 1 and Article 61, paragraph 29, item 1).
Work done at the worker's home, or at another place set as equivalent to a home by the labor contract (労働契約), a collective agreement (労働協約), the work rules (就業規則) or similar — for staff of an agency engaged in administrative execution (行政執行法人), by a collective agreement, the work rules or similar (Article 23, paragraph 2, item 1 and Article 61, paragraph 29, item 1).
This Act as it stood before Act No. 118 of 2001 amended it.
出生時育児休業終了予定日
The last day of parental leave (出生時育児休業) that a worker gives when applying for it (Article 9-2, paragraph 3).
The period during which a worker who has applied for caregiver leave (介護休業) may be on it: from the scheduled start date to the scheduled end date, cut short where needed so that the worker's caregiver leave for that family member does not exceed 93 days in total (Article 15).
育児のための所定労働時間の短縮措置
Shorter scheduled working hours that an employer — or, for its staff, the head of an agency engaged in administrative execution (行政執行法人) — must provide on request to a worker raising a child under three who is not on childcare leave (育児休業), so that they can work while raising the child; workers whose scheduled day is already short are not covered, and some others can be excluded (Article 23, paragraph 1 and Article 61, paragraph 28).
Arrangements that make it easier for a worker to work while raising a child — letting the worker set their own starting and finishing times under Article 32-3, paragraph 1 of the Labor Standards Act, and the other measures a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) specifies — provided on the worker's application or, for staff of an agency engaged in administrative execution (行政執行法人), on their request for approval (Article 23, paragraph 2, item 2 and Article 61, paragraph 29, item 2).
対象労働者
A worker who is raising a child or caring for a family member, or who will be doing so — the workers whose continued employment, re-employment and welfare the national government may support under Article 30.
育児のための所定労働時間の短縮措置
Shorter scheduled working hours that an employer — or, for its staff, the head of an agency engaged in administrative execution (行政執行法人) — must provide on request to a worker raising a child under three who is not on childcare leave (育児休業), so that they can work while raising the child; workers whose scheduled day is already short are not covered, and some others can be excluded (Article 23, paragraph 1 and Article 61, paragraph 28).
Arrangements that make it easier for a worker to work while raising a child — letting the worker set their own starting and finishing times under Article 32-3, paragraph 1 of the Labor Standards Act, and the other measures a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) specifies — provided on the worker's application or, for staff of an agency engaged in administrative execution (行政執行法人), on their request for approval (Article 23, paragraph 2, item 2 and Article 61, paragraph 29, item 2).
The last day of caregiver leave (介護休業) that a worker gives when applying for it (Article 11, paragraph 3).
Arrangements letting a worker raising a child work from home or another place treated as home (在宅勤務等), on the worker's application — or, for staff of an agency engaged in administrative execution (行政執行法人), on their request for approval — so that they can work while raising the child (Article 23, paragraph 2, item 1 and Article 61, paragraph 29, item 1).
対象労働者等
Workers who are, or will be, raising a child or caring for a family member (対象労働者), together with people who left their job because of pregnancy, childbirth, childcare or caregiving (育児等退職者) (Article 30).
対象労働者等
Workers who are, or will be, raising a child or caring for a family member (対象労働者), together with people who left their job because of pregnancy, childbirth, childcare or caregiving (育児等退職者) (Article 30).
第三十条に規定する対象労働者等
Leave that a staff member of an agency engaged in administrative execution (行政執行法人) can take, with the agency head's approval, to care for a family member requiring caregiving (要介護家族) or to look after them in the other ways a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets under Article 16-5, paragraph 1 (Article 61, paragraph 10).
Arrangements letting a worker raising a child work from home or another place treated as home (在宅勤務等), on the worker's application — or, for staff of an agency engaged in administrative execution (行政執行法人), on their request for approval — so that they can work while raising the child (Article 23, paragraph 2, item 1 and Article 61, paragraph 29, item 1).
対象労働者等
Workers who are, or will be, raising a child or caring for a family member (対象労働者), together with people who left their job because of pregnancy, childbirth, childcare or caregiving (育児等退職者) (Article 30).
第三十条に規定する対象労働者等
The first day of caregiver leave (介護休業) that a worker gives when applying for it (Article 11, paragraph 3).
制限期間
The period — at least one month and at most one year, or six months for late-night work — for which a worker asks the employer not to make them work beyond their scheduled working hours (Article 16-8), not to extend their working hours beyond 24 hours a month and 150 hours a year (Article 17), or not to make them work late at night (Article 19).
The first day of the limited period (制限期間) that a worker gives when asking the employer to limit work beyond scheduled hours, overtime or late-night work; the request must be made at least one month before it (Articles 16-8, 17 and 19).
制限期間
The period — at least one month and at most one year, or six months for late-night work — for which a worker asks the employer not to make them work beyond their scheduled working hours (Article 16-8), not to extend their working hours beyond 24 hours a month and 150 hours a year (Article 17), or not to make them work late at night (Article 19).
The first day of the limited period (制限期間) that a worker gives when asking the employer to limit work beyond scheduled hours, overtime or late-night work; the request must be made at least one month before it (Articles 16-8, 17 and 19).
The hours from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., in which Article 19 bars an employer, at the request of an eligible worker raising a child not yet in elementary school, from making the worker work, unless it would hinder the normal running of the business.
制限期間
The period — at least one month and at most one year, or six months for late-night work — for which a worker asks the employer not to make them work beyond their scheduled working hours (Article 16-8), not to extend their working hours beyond 24 hours a month and 150 hours a year (Article 17), or not to make them work late at night (Article 19).
The first day of the limited period (制限期間) that a worker gives when asking the employer to limit work beyond scheduled hours, overtime or late-night work; the request must be made at least one month before it (Articles 16-8, 17 and 19).
The measures an employer has put in place under Article 23-3, paragraph 1 for workers raising a child aged three up to school age — at least two from among changed starting times, working from home, shorter working hours, leave and others — which it must tell a worker raising a child under three about, confirming which the worker wishes to use, within a period a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets (Article 23-3, paragraph 5).
A business cooperative or other association whose members are small and medium-sized businesses (事業協同組合等, as defined in Article 2, paragraph 2 of the Act on the Promotion of Improvement of Employment Management in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises for Securing Manpower and Creating Quality Jobs) that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, on its application, has certified under standards the Minister sets as fit to advise and assist its member businesses on the measures employers must take under Article 22, paragraph 3 and other matters.
中小企業における労働力の確保及び良好な雇用の機会の創出のための雇用管理の改善の促進に関する法律第二条第二項に規定する事業協同組合等であって、その構成員たる中小企業者に対し、第二十二条第三項の事業主が講ずべき措置その他に関する相談及び援助を行うものとして、当該事業協同組合等の申請に基づき厚生労働大臣がその定める基準により適当であると認定したもの
行政執行法人子の看護等休暇
Leave that a staff member of an agency engaged in administrative execution (行政執行法人) raising a child who has not yet passed the first 31 March after reaching nine years of age can take, with the agency head's approval, for the purposes of short-term leave for sick/injured childcare, etc. (子の看護等休暇) under Article 16-2 — looking after the child when injured or sick, preventive care, school closures and similar events, or school and childcare events (Article 61, paragraph 6).
In Article 61-2, a local public employee holding a short-time post (短時間勤務の職) under Article 22-4, paragraph 1 of the Local Public Service Act — a post with shorter normal weekly hours than a full-time post of the same kind, filled by re-employing people who retired at or after an age set by local ordinance (条例).
The Acts (法律) amended by Act No. 54 of 2002, and the orders made under them, as that Act amended them.
The Acts (法律) amended by Act No. 26 of 2008, and the orders made under them, as that Act amended them.
The Acts (法律) amended by Act No. 67 of 2014, and the orders made under them, as that Act amended them.
The day a worker's child reaches one year and six months of age, the point from which childcare leave (育児休業) can be extended toward the child's second birthday in the cases Article 5, paragraph 4 sets.
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).
育児休業申出及び出生時育児休業申出
A child who has not yet passed the first 31 March on or after the day they reach nine years of age — the child a worker may take short-term leave for sick/injured childcare, etc. (子の看護等休暇) to look after (Article 16-2).
A person who left their job because of pregnancy, childbirth, childcare or caregiving (Article 27).
A person who left their job because of pregnancy, childbirth, childcare or caregiving (Article 27).
第二十七条に規定する育児等退職者
A person who left their job because of pregnancy, childbirth, childcare or caregiving (Article 27).
第二十七条に規定する育児等退職者
The Acts (法律) amended by Act No. 54 of 2002, and the orders made under them, as they stood before that Act amended them.
The Acts (法律) amended by Act No. 26 of 2008, and the orders made under them, as they stood before that Act amended them.
Short name, in the supplementary provisions of Act No. 14 of 2017 and of Act No. 42 of 2024, for the Act on Childcare Leave, Caregiver Leave, and Other Measures for the Welfare of Workers Caring for Children or Other Family Members as amended by that Act (by its Article 7 and its Article 1 respectively).
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 42 of 2024.
介護のための所定労働時間の短縮等の措置
Shorter scheduled working hours, or other arrangements that make it easier to work while giving care, which Article 23, paragraph 3 requires an employer to provide on the worker's application, over a period of at least three consecutive years, to a worker caring for an applicable family member (対象家族) in a condition requiring caregiving (要介護状態) who is not on caregiver leave (介護休業) — save for workers a written labor-management agreement excludes.
育児休業等関係言動問題
Problems arising from workplace conduct that harms a worker's working environment over their use of childcare leave (育児休業), caregiver leave (介護休業) or other systems for raising children or caring for family, including the rule that such conduct must not happen, which the national government works to make employers and the public understand (Article 25-2).
The period that the head of an agency engaged in administrative execution (行政執行法人), or for a local public employee the appointer (任命権者等), designates on the employee's application for leave to care for a family member requiring caregiving (要介護家族) — no more than three times, and 93 days in total, for each continuing spell of need (Articles 61, paragraph 4 and 61-2, paragraph 4).
行政執行法人介護休業の承認の請求
A staff member's request to the head of an agency engaged in administrative execution (行政執行法人) for approval of caregiver leave (行政執行法人介護休業) under Article 61, paragraph 5.
Time off from part of the working day that a staff member of an agency engaged in administrative execution (行政執行法人) may take, with the agency head's approval, to care for a family member requiring caregiving (要介護家族) — no more than two hours a day, within three consecutive years for each continuing spell of need (Article 61, paragraphs 30 and 31).
The period that the head of an agency engaged in administrative execution (行政執行法人), or for a local public employee the appointer (任命権者等), designates on the employee's application for leave to care for a family member requiring caregiving (要介護家族) — no more than three times, and 93 days in total, for each continuing spell of need (Articles 61, paragraph 4 and 61-2, paragraph 4).
二週間経過日
The day on which two weeks have passed, counted from the day after a worker applies for parental leave (出生時育児休業); where the start date the worker asked for falls before it, the employer may, as a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) provides, set the start date at any day from the requested date up to this day — or, where a circumstance specified by that Order under Article 6, paragraph 3 arose by the day of the application, up to an earlier day that Order sets (Article 9-3, paragraph 3).
The days on which a worker could work during their parental leave (出生時育児休業), and other matters a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) specifies, which a worker covered by a labor-management agreement allowing such work may tell the employer before the leave starts (Article 9-5, paragraph 2).
二週間経過日
The day on which two weeks have passed, counted from the day after a worker applies for caregiver leave (介護休業); where the start date the worker asked for falls before it, the employer may, as a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) provides, set the start date at any day from the requested date up to this day (Article 12, paragraph 3).
In Articles 53 and 54, a small or medium-sized business as defined in Article 2, paragraph 1 of the Act on the Promotion of Improvement of Employment Management in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises for Securing Manpower and Creating Quality Jobs: a company or individual business whose capital, or whose number of regular employees, is at or below a limit set by industry (300 million yen or 300 employees in manufacturing, construction and transport, for example), an enterprise union (企業組合), a cooperative business association (協業組合), or a cooperative or similar union a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.
中小企業における労働力の確保及び良好な雇用の機会の創出のための雇用管理の改善の促進に関する法律（平成三年法律第五十七号）第二条第一項に規定する中小企業者
In Article 61, a specified part-time employee (特定非常勤職員) raising a child under three whose work makes shorter hours hard to arrange, so that the head of an agency engaged in administrative execution (行政執行法人) need not shorten their hours but must then offer working from home or measures such as changed starting times (Article 61, paragraphs 28 and 29).
The measures the head of an agency engaged in administrative execution (行政執行法人) has put in place under Article 61, paragraph 34 for staff raising a child aged three up to school age — at least two of those listed there — which the head must tell staff raising a child under three about, confirming which they wish to use, within a period a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets (Article 61, paragraph 38).
A body that, when Act No. 118 of 2001 comes into effect, holds a designation under Article 28, paragraph 1 of this Act as it stood before that Act; it is treated as designated under Article 36, paragraph 1 of the amended Act.
新機関
A national or other public body listed in the right-hand column of the table in Article 2 of the supplementary provisions of Act No. 26 of 2008, such as the Commissioner of the Japan Tourism Agency (観光庁長官), the Japan Transport Safety Board (運輸安全委員会) or the Central Labor Relations Commission (中央労働委員会), which is treated as having made the approvals, designations and other acts of the former body (旧機関) it replaces in that table.
旧機関
A national government body listed in the middle column of the table in Article 2 of the supplementary provisions of Act No. 26 of 2008, such as the Aircraft and Railway Accidents Investigation Commission (航空・鉄道事故調査委員会), the Marine Accidents Inquiry Agency (海難審判庁) or the Central Mariners' Labor Relations Commission (船員中央労働委員会), whose approvals, designations and other acts made before that Act comes into effect count afterwards as made by the body the table puts in its place.
1 October 2017, the date the provisions listed in Article 1, item 3 of the supplementary provisions of Act No. 14 of 2017 come into effect — among them most of that Act's Article 7, which amends this Act.
The total number of days a worker has spent on caregiver leave (介護休業) for one family member, counting each leave from its first day to its last; once it reaches 93, the worker can apply for no more caregiver leave for that family member (Article 11, paragraph 2).
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).
勤労者家庭支援施設指導員
A staff member of a family support center for workers (勤労者家庭支援施設) — a facility a local government may set up to help workers balance work and family life — who counsels and guides applicable workers, etc. (対象労働者等), chosen from people holding qualifications the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare sets (Articles 34 and 35).
船員等
People seeking to become mariners (船員) as the Mariners' Employment Security Act defines them in its Article 6, paragraph 1 — mariners under the Mariners Act and people serving on ships other than Japanese ships — and mariners to whom the Mariners Act applies; certain provisions of this Act do not apply to them, and others are adjusted (Article 60).
A request by a staff member of an agency engaged in administrative execution (行政執行法人) to the agency's head for approval to use any of the systems or measures for balancing work and caregiving (介護両立支援制度等) that Article 61, paragraph 20 refers to.