Chapter XII Miscellaneous Provisions
第十二章 雑則
Article 105-2The State's Duty to Provide Assistance
第百五条の二（国の援助義務）
Article 106Duty to Make Laws and Regulations Known
第百六条（法令等の周知義務）
An employer must make known to workers the gist of this Act and any Order issued based on this Act, the rules of employment, any agreement provided for in Article 18, paragraph (2), the proviso to Article 24, paragraph (1), Article 32-2, paragraph (1), Article 32-3, paragraph (1), Article 32-4, paragraph (1), Article 32-5, paragraph (1), the proviso to Article 34, paragraph (2), Article 36, paragraph (1), Article 37, paragraph (3), Article 38-2, paragraph (2), Article 38-3, paragraph (1), Article 39, paragraphs (4) and (6), and the proviso to Article 39, paragraph (9), and any resolution as provided for in Article 38-4, paragraph (1), Article 38-4, paragraph (5) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 41-2, paragraph (3)), and Article 41-2, paragraph (1), by posting or keeping them in a easily visible location or locations at the workplace at all times, by distributing written copies, or by any other means prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
使用者は、この法律及びこれに基づく命令の要旨、就業規則、第十八条第二項、第二十四条第一項ただし書、第三十二条の二第一項、第三十二条の三第一項、第三十二条の四第一項、第三十二条の五第一項、第三十四条第二項ただし書、第三十六条第一項、第三十七条第三項、第三十八条の二第二項、第三十八条の三第一項並びに第三十九条第四項、第六項及び第九項ただし書に規定する協定並びに第三十八条の四第一項及び同条第五項（第四十一条の二第三項において準用する場合を含む。）並びに第四十一条の二第一項に規定する決議を、常時各作業場の見やすい場所へ掲示し、又は備え付けること、書面を交付することその他の厚生労働省令で定める方法によつて、労働者に周知させなければならない。
An employer must make known to workers living in communal housing the provisions of this Act and any Order issued pursuant to this Act, relating to communal housing and house rules, by posting or keeping them in a easily visible location or locations in that communal housing, or by other such means.
第百七条（労働者名簿）
If a particular that is required to be entered in a roster pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is altered, the employer must correct it without delay.
前項の規定により記入すべき事項に変更があつた場合においては、遅滞なく訂正しなければならない。
第百八条（賃金台帳）
Article 109Maintaining Records
第百九条（記録の保存）
Deleted
削除
第百十一条（無料証明）
A worker or a person seeking to become a worker may request a certificate of their family register free of charge from the person responsible for family registers or their deputy. The same applies if an employer requests a certificate of the family register of a worker, and a person seeking to become a worker.
Article 112Application to the State and Public Organizations
第百十二条（国及び公共団体についての適用）
This Act and orders issued based on this Act are to apply to the State, prefectures, municipalities, and other equivalent bodies.
この法律及びこの法律に基いて発する命令は、国、都道府県、市町村その他これに準ずべきものについても適用あるものとする。
Article 113Establishment of an Order
第百十三条（命令の制定）
Article 114Payment of Additional Monies
第百十四条（付加金の支払）
At the request of a worker, the court may order an employer who has violated the provisions of Articles 20, 26 or 37, or an employer who has not paid wages under the provisions of Article 39, paragraph (9), to pay, in addition to the unpaid portion of the amount that the employer was required to pay pursuant to those provisions, additional monies in the same amount; provided, however, that this request must be made within five years from the date of the violation.
第百十五条（時効）
Changes on (Act No. 60 of 2026)
Any claims for wages under the provisions of this Act are extinguished by prescription if not made within five years from the time when they may be exercised; and claims for accident compensation and other claims (excluding claims for wages) under the provisions of this Act are extinguished by prescription, if not made within two years from the time when they may be exercised.
この法律の規定による賃金の請求権はこれを行使することができる時から五年間、この法律の規定による災害補償その他の請求権（賃金の請求権を除く。）はこれを行使することができる時から二年間行わない場合においては、時効によつて消滅する。
Article 115-2Transitional Measures
第百十五条の二（経過措置）
When an order is established, amended, or repealed based on the provisions of this Act, the necessary transitional measures (including transitional measures on penal provisions) may be prescribed by that order to the extent considered reasonably necessary for its establishment, amendment, or repeal.
この法律の規定に基づき命令を制定し、又は改廃するときは、その命令で、その制定又は改廃に伴い合理的に必要と判断される範囲内において、所要の経過措置（罰則に関する経過措置を含む。）を定めることができる。
Article 116Exclusion from Application
第百十六条（適用除外）
With the exception of the provisions of Articles 1 through 11, paragraph (2) below, Articles 117 through 119, and Article 121, this Act does not apply to the mariners provided for in Article 1, paragraph (1) of the Mariners Law (Act No. 100 of 1947).
第一条から第十一条まで、次項、第百十七条から第百十九条まで及び第百二十一条の規定を除き、この法律は、船員法（昭和二十二年法律第百号）第一条第一項に規定する船員については、適用しない。
business
「事業」
A business or office at which people are employed; the unit to which the Labor Standards Act applies.
Short name set inArticle 9, paragraph (1)
worker
「労働者」
A person employed at a business or office and paid wages, whatever the kind of job.
Defined inArticle 9, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
employermachine translation
「使用者」
The business owner, its managers, and anyone else acting for the owner in matters concerning its workers.
Defined inArticle 10, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
wagemachine translation
「賃金」
Everything an employer pays a worker in return for work, whatever it is called: wages, salary, allowances or bonuses.
Defined inArticle 11, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
family register
戸籍
The public record of who a person is related to by birth, marriage and adoption. One is made for each married couple and their children who share their surname, where they set their registered domicile (本籍); when a new register is made for a person married to a foreign national (外国人) or with no spouse, it is made for that person and their children who share their surname (Family Register Act, Article 6). The mayor of the municipality (in Tokyo's special wards and the wards of designated cities, the ward mayor) administers this work unless the Act provides otherwise (Articles 1 and 4). Besides the registered domicile, it records for each person their name and its reading, date of birth, why and when they entered the register, their parents and, for an adopted child, their adoptive parents, whether they are husband and wife, and the register they came from, among other things (Article 13). Entries are made on a notification (届出) — of a birth, a marriage, a divorce or a death, for example (Articles 49, 74, 76 and 86) — or on a report, an application, a court decision and a few other grounds (Article 15). When a marriage between a Japanese national and a foreign national is notified, a new family register is made for the Japanese national, not for the couple, unless the Japanese national already heads a register of their own (Article 6 and Article 16, paragraph (3)). A foreign national who lives in a municipality as a mid- to long-term resident (中長期在留者), a special permanent resident (特別永住者) or in one of a few other categories is recorded in that municipality's resident record (住民票): instead of the family register entry a Japanese resident's record carries, it states their nationality, and for a mid- to long-term resident their status of residence (在留資格) and period of stay (Residential Basic Book Act, Article 30-45). A foreign national in none of those categories is not recorded there (Article 39).
Written by AI using Family Register Act, Arts. 1, 4, 6, 13, 15, 16, 49, 74, 76, 86 and Residential Basic Book Act, Arts. 7, 30-45, 39 as a reference.
director of a prefectural labor bureau
都道府県労働局長
The head of a prefectural labor bureau (都道府県労働局), a local branch (地方支分部局) of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, so part of the national government rather than of the prefecture (Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Article 17; National Government Organization Act, Article 9). The post is filled by a labor standards inspector (労働基準監督官) (Labor Standards Act, Article 97, paragraph (2)). Under the Labor Standards Act, the director, directed and supervised by the head of the Ministry's Labor Standards Management Bureau (労働基準主管局長), directs and supervises the directors of the labor standards inspection offices (労働基準監督署長) in the bureau's area, handles the carrying out of that Act, such as coordinating how inspection is done, and directs and supervises the bureau's staff; the director may also exercise the powers of the authorities below (下級官庁) directly, or have the bureau's labor standards inspectors exercise them (Labor Standards Act, Article 97, paragraph (1), and Article 99, paragraphs (2) and (4)). The heads of public employment security offices (公共職業安定所長) run their offices under the director's direction and supervision (Employment Security Act, Article 8, paragraph (2)).
Written by AI using Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Art. 17, National Government Organization Act, Art. 9, Labor Standards Act, Arts. 97, 99 and Employment Security Act, Art. 8 as a reference.