The provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 38-2 of the Act shall apply to the calculation of working hours in the application of the provisions concerning working hours under Chapter 4 of the Act .
法第三十八条の二第一項の規定は、法第四章の労働時間に関する規定の適用に係る労働時間の算定について適用する。
An agreement under the provisions of paragraph (2) of Article 38-2 of the Act (excluding the case where it is by way of collective agreement and including a resolution of a labor-management and resolution of a committee on the improvement of working time arrangements) shall set forth a validity period.
法第三十八条の二第二項の協定（労働協約による場合を除き、労使委員会の決議及び労働時間等設定改善委員会の決議を含む。）には、有効期間の定めをするものとする。
A notification pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) of Article 38-2 of the Act must be given to the Director of the Labor Standards Office Concerned according to Form No. 12. When the working hours stipulated in an agreement under the provisions of paragraph (2) of the said Article do not exceed the working hours prescribed in the provisions of Article 32 or 40 of the Act, such an agreement does not need to be notified.
法第三十八条の二第三項の規定による届出は、様式第十二号により、所轄労働基準監督署長にしなければならない。ただし、同条第二項の協定で定める時間が法第三十二条又は第四十条に規定する労働時間以下である場合には、当該協定を届け出ることを要しない。
An employer may give notification to the Director of the Labor Standards Office Concerned of the contents of an agreement referred to in the provisions of paragraph (2) of Article 38-2 of the Act by including the said contents in the notification under the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 36 of the Act (except notification of resolution of a labor-management and resolution of a committee on the improvement of working time arrangements) instead of giving the notification referred to in the preceding paragraph.
使用者は、法第三十八条の二第二項の協定の内容を法第三十六条第一項の規定による届出（労使委員会の決議の届出及び労働時間等設定改善委員会の決議の届出を除く。）に付記して所轄労働基準監督署長に届け出ることによつて、前項の届出に代えることができる。
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the Director of the Labor Standards Office Concerned
「所轄労働基準監督署長」
The head of the labor standards inspection office with jurisdiction over where the workplace is located.
Short name set inArticle 6, paragraph (1)
resolution by a labor-management committeemachine translation
「労使委員会の決議」
A decision adopted by a labor-management committee, which in many working-time rules counts in place of a written labor-management agreement.
Short name set inArticle 12, paragraph (1)
resolution by the committee on the improvement of working time arrangementsmachine translation
「労働時間等設定改善委員会の決議」
A resolution of a working-hours improvement committee (労働時間等設定改善委員会) — a committee for a single workplace that meets the requirements of Article 7 of the Act on Special Measures for Improvement of Working Hours Arrangements — which, when passed by at least four-fifths of its members, counts as the labor-management agreement (協定) that certain working-hours rules of the Labor Standards Act require.
Short name set inArticle 12, paragraph (1)