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Measures taken by the national government or local governments, and improvements to the employment environment and other efforts made by employers, to support families raising or seeking to raise the children who will carry society's next generation and otherwise to create an environment in which those children are born and raised in good health.
次代の社会を担う子どもを育成し、又は育成しようとする家庭に対する支援その他の次代の社会を担う子どもが健やかに生まれ、かつ、育成される環境の整備のための国若しくは地方公共団体が講ずる施策又は事業主が行う雇用環境の整備その他の取組
一般事業主行動計画
A general employer's (一般事業主) plan for the measures to support raising next-generation children (次世代育成支援対策) it will carry out, setting out the plan period, the goals and the measures with when they will be carried out (Article 12, paragraph (2)).
一般事業主が実施する次世代育成支援対策に関する計画
一般事業主
Any employer (事業主) other than the national government and local governments; Article 12 requires one that regularly employs more than 100 workers to make a general employer action plan (一般事業主行動計画) for measures to support raising next-generation children (次世代育成支援対策).
The guidelines that the competent minister (主務大臣) must set under Article 7, following the fundamental principle (基本理念), on drawing up municipal action plans (市町村行動計画), prefectural action plans (都道府県行動計画), general employer action plans (一般事業主行動計画) and specified employer action plans (特定事業主行動計画).
市町村行動計画
A plan that a municipality (市町村) may make every five years under Article 8, in line with the guidelines for the formulation of an action plan (行動計画策定指針), for carrying out measures to support raising next-generation children (次世代育成支援対策) in its own work over a five-year term, such as support for childrearing in the area, the health of mothers, infants and young children, an educational environment for children's healthy growth, good housing for families raising children, and balancing work and family life.
都道府県行動計画
A plan that a prefecture (都道府県) may make every five years under Article 9, in line with the guidelines for the formulation of an action plan (行動計画策定指針), for carrying out measures to support raising next-generation children (次世代育成支援対策) in its own work over a five-year term, such as support for childrearing in the area, the upbringing of children in need of protection, the health of mothers, infants and young children, an educational environment for children's healthy growth, good housing for families raising children, and balancing work and family life.
特定事業主行動計画
A specified employer's (特定事業主) plan for the measures to support raising next-generation children (次世代育成支援対策) it will carry out, which Article 19 has it make in line with the guidelines for the formulation of an action plan (行動計画策定指針).
特定事業主が実施する次世代育成支援対策に関する計画
特例認定一般事業主
A certified general employer (認定一般事業主) that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has further certified under Article 15-2 as meeting the standards a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets — among them having made a suitable general employer action plan (一般事業主行動計画) whose period ends on or after the day of its first certification, carried it out and met its goals, and a good record of measures to support raising next-generation children (次世代育成支援対策) — and to which Article 12, paragraphs (1) and (5), on making and notifying such a plan, do not apply.
特定事業主
A national or local government body (機関), or the head or officials of one, that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies, which is to make a specified employer action plan (特定事業主行動計画) for measures to support raising next-generation children (次世代育成支援対策) under Article 19.
認定一般事業主
A general employer (一般事業主) that has notified its general employer action plan (一般事業主行動計画) and that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has certified under Article 13, on its application, as meeting the standards a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets, among them having made a suitable plan for improving its employment environment, carried it out and met its goals.
In Articles 16 and 17, a business cooperative (事業協同組合), a federation of cooperatives or another cooperative or federation set up under a special Act that a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) specifies, or a general incorporated association (一般社団法人) with small and medium-sized employers (中小事業主) as direct or indirect members that meets requirements such an Order sets, which advises and helps its member small and medium-sized employers secure the people they need to promote measures to support raising next-generation children (次世代育成支援対策), and which the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has approved as suitable, on its application, under standards the Minister sets.
事業協同組合、協同組合連合会その他の特別の法律により設立された組合若しくはその連合会であって厚生労働省令で定めるもの又は一般社団法人で中小事業主を直接又は間接の構成員とするもの（厚生労働省令で定める要件に該当するものに限る。以下この項において「事業協同組合等」という。）であって、その構成員である中小事業主に対し、次世代育成支援対策を推進するための人材確保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承認したもの
The Act as amended by the amendment these supplementary provisions belong to.
In Articles 2 and 3 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 76 of 2022, the Act that revised related laws when the Children and Families Agency (こども家庭庁) was set up, the Acts (法律) that Act amended, as amended by it, together with the orders made under them.
In Articles 2 and 3 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 76 of 2022, the Act that revised related laws when the Children and Families Agency (こども家庭庁) was set up, the Acts (法律) that Act amended, as they stood before it amended them, together with the orders made under them.
The fundamental principle in Article 3 that measures to support raising next-generation children (次世代育成支援対策) are to be carried out on the basic understanding that parents and other guardians have the primary responsibility for raising children, taking care that, in the home and elsewhere, the meaning of raising children comes to be better understood and the joy it brings is felt.
In Article 14 and Article 15-4, paragraph (1), goods or services, documents or communications used in advertising them or in transactions, and other things a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets, to which a certified general employer (認定一般事業主) may attach the mark the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare sets.
地域協議会
A regional council for measures to support raising next-generation children (次世代育成支援対策地域協議会) that local governments, employers, residents and others working to promote those measures may set up under Article 21 to discuss the steps needed to promote them in their region.
市町村行動計画等
In Article 7, a name covering the municipal action plan (市町村行動計画), the prefectural action plan (都道府県行動計画), the general employer action plan (一般事業主行動計画) and the specified employer action plan (特定事業主行動計画) together.
In Article 16, paragraphs (1) and (2), a general employer (一般事業主) that is a member of an approved employer organization for small and medium-sized enterprises (承認中小事業主団体) and regularly employs no more than 300 workers.
労働者の育児休業等
In Article 12, paragraph (3), leave taken by a general employer's (一般事業主) workers: childcare leave (育児休業) as defined in Article 2, item (i) of the Act on Childcare Leave, Caregiver Leave, and Other Measures for the Welfare of Workers Caring for Children or Other Family Members (Act No. 76 of 1991), leave under measures equivalent to the childcare leave system under Article 23, paragraph (2) of that Act, leave under measures taken in line with the childcare leave system under Article 24, paragraph (1), item (ii) of that Act, and other leave that a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets as equivalent to these.
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（平成三年法律第七十六号）第二条第一号に規定する育児休業、同法第二十三条第二項の育児休業に関する制度に準ずる措置又は同法第二十四条第一項（第二号に係る部分に限る。）の規定により同項第二号に規定する育児休業に関する制度に準じて講ずる措置による休業その他これらに準ずるものとして厚生労働省令で定めるもの
事業協同組合等
In Article 16, paragraph (2), a business cooperative (事業協同組合), a federation of cooperatives or another cooperative or federation set up under a special Act that a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) specifies, or a general incorporated association (一般社団法人) with small and medium-sized employers (中小事業主) as direct or indirect members that meets requirements such an Order sets.
職員の育児休業等
In Article 19, paragraph (3), leave taken by employees (職員): childcare leave (育児休業) under Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Act on Childcare Leave, etc. of Diet Officers (Act No. 108 of 1991), Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Act on Childcare Leave, etc. of National Public Officers (Act No. 109 of 1991) (including as applied under Article 27, paragraph (1) of that Act and under the Act on Temporary Measures concerning Court Officials (Act No. 299 of 1951)) or Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Childcare Leave, etc. of Local Public Officers (Act No. 110 of 1991), childcare leave as defined in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Childcare Leave for Judges (Act No. 111 of 1991), and other leave that a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) sets as equivalent to these.
国会職員の育児休業等に関する法律（平成三年法律第百八号）第三条第一項、国家公務員の育児休業等に関する法律（平成三年法律第百九号）第三条第一項（同法第二十七条第一項及び裁判所職員臨時措置法（昭和二十六年法律第二百九十九号）において準用する場合を含む。）若しくは地方公務員の育児休業等に関する法律（平成三年法律第百十号）第二条第一項の規定による育児休業又は裁判官の育児休業に関する法律（平成三年法律第百十一号）第二条第一項に規定する育児休業その他これらに準ずるものとして内閣府令で定めるもの