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Article 5Responsibilities of Employers

第五条(事業主の責務)

In accordance with the fundamental principles, an employer must endeavor to implement measures to support raising next-generation children on their own initiative by improving the various working conditions of the workers they employ, creating a work environment that makes it easier for workers to take childcare leave, making efforts to shorten the working hours, and otherwise developing an employment environment necessary for allowing workers to balance their professional and domestic lives, and must cooperate with the measures to support raising next-generation children taken by the national government or local governments.

事業主は、基本理念にのっとり、その雇用する労働者に係る多様な労働条件の整備、育児休業を取得しやすい職場環境の形成、労働時間の短縮の取組その他の労働者の職業生活と家庭生活との両立が図られるようにするために必要な雇用環境の整備を行うことにより自ら次世代育成支援対策を実施するよう努めるとともに、国又は地方公共団体が講ずる次世代育成支援対策に協力しなければならない。

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