Supplementary Provisions, Article 5Transitional Measures Concerning Annual Paid Leave
第五条（年次有給休暇に関する経過措置）
With regard to paid leave for a worker whose base date (meaning the first day of each sub-period into which the period of continuous employment is divided in one-year intervals starting from the six-months elapsed date prescribed in Article 39, paragraph (2) of the New Act (or, if a period of less than one year arises at the end, that period); the same applies hereinafter in this Article) is a day other than April 1 at the time this Act comes into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern until the day before the first base date after the date on which this Act comes into effect, notwithstanding the provisions of that paragraph and Article 39, paragraph (3) of the New Act.
この法律の施行の際四月一日以外の日が基準日（継続勤務した期間を新法第三十九条第二項に規定する六箇月経過日から一年ごとに区分した各期間（最後に一年未満の期間を生じたときは、当該期間）の初日をいう。以下この条において同じ。）である労働者に係る有給休暇については、この法律の施行の日後の最初の基準日の前日までの間は、同項及び新法第三十九条第三項の規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。
With regard to paid leave for a worker who, from among the workers prescribed in Article 135, paragraph (1) of the New Act who are in continuous service on April 1, 2000, has as the base date as of that day a day other than April 1, from April 1 of that year until the day before the first base date after that day, the provisions of Article 39, paragraphs (2) and (3) of the New Act as applied before the first day of that month with the replacement of terms pursuant to that paragraph govern.
新法第百三十五条第一項に規定する労働者であって平成十二年四月一日において継続勤務するもののうち、同日において四月一日以外の日が基準日である労働者に係る有給休暇については、同年四月一日から同日後の最初の基準日の前日までの間は、同月一日前において同項の規定により読み替えて適用する新法第三十九条第二項及び第三項の規定の例による。
The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to a worker who is prescribed in Article 135, paragraph (2) of the New Act and who is in continuous service on April 1, 2001.
前項の規定は、新法第百三十五条第二項に規定する労働者であって平成十三年四月一日において継続勤務するものについて準用する。
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
six-months elapsed date
「六箇月経過日」
The day a worker's continuous employment passes six months from hiring, from which additional annual paid leave is counted.
Short name set inArticle 39, paragraph (2)
the New Actmachine translation
「新法」
This Act as amended by Act No. 112 of 1998.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)
base date
「基準日」
In the supplementary provisions of Act No. 112 of 1998, the first day of each one-year period into which a worker's continuous service is divided, counting from the day six months after hiring as Article 39, paragraph (2) as amended by that Act defines it (the last period may be shorter than a year).
Defined inSupplementary Provisions, Article 5, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article