労働基準主管局(厚生労働省の内部部局として置かれる局で労働条件及び労働者の保護に関する事務を所掌するものをいう。以下同じ。)、都道府県労働局及び労働基準監督署に労働基準監督官を置くほか、厚生労働省令で定める必要な職員を置くことができる。
Labor standards inspectors and other necessary staff members prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare may be appointed in the Labor Standards Management Bureau (meaning the department established within the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, with administrative responsibility for affairs involving labor conditions and the protection of workers; the same applies below), prefectural labor bureaus, and labor standards inspection offices.