使用者は、一年六箇月以上継続勤務した労働者に対しては、雇入れの日から起算して六箇月を超えて継続勤務する日（以下「六箇月経過日」という。）から起算した継続勤務年数一年ごとに、前項の日数に、次の表の上欄に掲げる六箇月経過日から起算した継続勤務年数の区分に応じ同表の下欄に掲げる労働日を加算した有給休暇を与えなければならない。ただし、継続勤務した期間を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）の初日の前日の属する期間において出勤した日数が全労働日の八割未満である者に対しては、当該初日以後の一年間においては有給休暇を与えることを要しない。
| 六箇月経過日から起算した継続勤務年数 | 労働日 |
| 一年 | 一労働日 |
| 二年 | 二労働日 |
| 三年 | 四労働日 |
| 四年 | 六労働日 |
| 五年 | 八労働日 |
| 六年以上 | 十労働日 |
At yearly intervals defined by the number of years of continuous employment that are counted starting from the day on which a worker's continuous employment passes the six-month mark counting from the hire date (hereinafter referred to as the "six-month mark"), an employer must grant a worker whom it has employed continuously for at least one year and six months the paid leave that is calculated when the number of working days that the right-hand column of the following table sets forth for the category that the left-hand column of that table sets forth for a worker's number of years of continuous employment as counted from the six-month mark, is added to the number of days referred to in the preceding paragraph; provided, however, that for one of the one-year sub-periods into which the period of continuous employment is divided beginning at the six-month mark (including any period of less than one year constituting the last of those sub-periods), if the number of days that a worker has reported for work accounts for less than 80 percent of the total working days in the sub-period that includes the day before the first day of the sub-period in question, the employer is not required to grant the worker paid leave for the one year following the first day of that sub-period.
| Number of years of continuous service employment from the six-months mark completion day | Working days |
| One year | One working day |
| Two years | Two working days |
| Three years | Four working days |
| Four years | Six working days |
| Five years | Eight working days |
| Six years or more | Ten working days |
次に掲げる労働者（一週間の所定労働時間が厚生労働省令で定める時間以上の者を除く。）の有給休暇の日数については、前二項の規定にかかわらず、これらの規定による有給休暇の日数を基準とし、通常の労働者の一週間の所定労働日数として厚生労働省令で定める日数（第一号において「通常の労働者の週所定労働日数」という。）と当該労働者の一週間の所定労働日数又は一週間当たりの平均所定労働日数との比率を考慮して厚生労働省令で定める日数とする。
Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the number of days of paid leave for a worker as set forth in the following items (excluding one whose prescribed weekly working hours are more than the hours fixed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) is fixed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare based on the number of days of paid leave specified in the preceding two paragraphs in consideration of the ratio of the number of days prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as the prescribed working days in a week for a worker with a standard employment status (referred to as "the prescribed weekly working days of a worker with a standard employment status" in item (i)) to either the number of prescribed weekly working days for the worker concerned or the average number of prescribed working days per week for the worker concerned:
一週間の所定労働日数が通常の労働者の週所定労働日数に比し相当程度少ないものとして厚生労働省令で定める日数以下の労働者
a worker for whom the number of prescribed weekly working days is not more than the number of days prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as constituting a number that is considerably lower than the number of prescribed weekly working days of a worker with a standard employment status;
週以外の期間によつて所定労働日数が定められている労働者については、一年間の所定労働日数が、前号の厚生労働省令で定める日数に一日を加えた日数を一週間の所定労働日数とする労働者の一年間の所定労働日数その他の事情を考慮して厚生労働省令で定める日数以下の労働者
a worker whose number of prescribed working days is calculated on the basis of units of time other than weeks, and whose number of prescribed annual working days is not more than the number of days prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in consideration of the number of prescribed annual working days of a worker whose number of prescribed weekly working days is the number arrived at when one day is added to the number prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare referred to in the preceding item and of other circumstances.
使用者は、当該事業場に、労働者の過半数で組織する労働組合があるときはその労働組合、労働者の過半数で組織する労働組合がないときは労働者の過半数を代表する者との書面による協定により、次に掲げる事項を定めた場合において、第一号に掲げる労働者の範囲に属する労働者が有給休暇を時間を単位として請求したときは、前三項の規定による有給休暇の日数のうち第二号に掲げる日数については、これらの規定にかかわらず、当該協定で定めるところにより時間を単位として有給休暇を与えることができる。
Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs, if an employer has provided for the following particulars in a written agreement with the labor union that has been organized by a majority of the workers at that workplace, if there is one, or with a person representing a majority of the workers at that workplace, if there is no such union, and a worker who falls within the scope of workers set forth in item (i) requests paid leave by the hour, the employer, pursuant to the provisions of that agreement, may grant the worker paid leave by the hour for the number of days of paid leave under the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs that are set forth in item (ii):
時間を単位として有給休暇を与えることができることとされる労働者の範囲
the scope of workers to whom it is decided paid leave by the hour may be granted;
時間を単位として与えることができることとされる有給休暇の日数（五日以内に限る。）
the number of days of paid leave that it is decided may be granted by the hour (limited to not more than five days);
その他厚生労働省令で定める事項
other particulars prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
使用者は、前各項の規定による有給休暇を労働者の請求する時季に与えなければならない。ただし、請求された時季に有給休暇を与えることが事業の正常な運営を妨げる場合においては、他の時季にこれを与えることができる。
An employer must grant paid leave under the provisions of each of the preceding paragraphs at the worker's requested timing; provided, however, that if granting the leave at the requested timing would interfere with the normal operation of the business, the employer may grant leave at a different timing instead.
使用者は、当該事業場に、労働者の過半数で組織する労働組合がある場合においてはその労働組合、労働者の過半数で組織する労働組合がない場合においては労働者の過半数を代表する者との書面による協定により、第一項から第三項までの規定による有給休暇を与える時季に関する定めをしたときは、これらの規定による有給休暇の日数のうち五日を超える部分については、前項の規定にかかわらず、その定めにより有給休暇を与えることができる。
Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if an employer, in a written agreement with the labor union that has been organized by a majority of the workers at that workplace, if there is one, or with a person representing a majority of the workers at that workplace, if there is no such union, has provided for the timing at which it provides the paid leave under the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (3), the employer may provide the part of a worker's paid leave under the provisions of those paragraphs that exceeds 5 days based on that agreement.
使用者は、第一項から第三項までの規定による有給休暇（これらの規定により使用者が与えなければならない有給休暇の日数が十労働日以上である労働者に係るものに限る。以下この項及び次項において同じ。）の日数のうち五日については、基準日（継続勤務した期間を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。以下この項において同じ。）から一年以内の期間に、労働者ごとにその時季を定めることにより与えなければならない。ただし、第一項から第三項までの規定による有給休暇を当該有給休暇に係る基準日より前の日から与えることとしたときは、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、労働者ごとにその時季を定めることにより与えなければならない。
For each worker, an employer must grant five days of the paid leave under the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (3) (but only the paid leave associated with workers to whom the employer must grant 10 working days or more of paid leave pursuant to those provisions; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph and the following paragraph) within one year of the base date (meaning the first day of each of the one-year sub-periods into which the period of continuous employment is divided beginning at the six-month mark (including any period of less than one year constituting the last of those sub-periods)) at the timing the employer sets; provided, however, if an employer decides to grant the paid leave under the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (3) before the base date with which it is associated, it must grant that leave at the timing it sets for each worker pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
前項の規定にかかわらず、第五項又は第六項の規定により第一項から第三項までの規定による有給休暇を与えた場合においては、当該与えた有給休暇の日数（当該日数が五日を超える場合には、五日とする。）分については、時季を定めることにより与えることを要しない。
Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if an employer has granted a worker the paid leave under paragraphs (1) through (3) pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (5) or (6), it is not required to grant leave at the timing it sets for however many of the days of paid leave it has granted pursuant to those provisions (or five days, if the number of days of paid leave so granted exceeds five days).
使用者は、第一項から第三項までの規定による有給休暇の期間又は第四項の規定による有給休暇の時間については、就業規則その他これに準ずるもので定めるところにより、それぞれ、平均賃金若しくは所定労働時間労働した場合に支払われる通常の賃金又はこれらの額を基準として厚生労働省令で定めるところにより算定した額の賃金を支払わなければならない。ただし、当該事業場に、労働者の過半数で組織する労働組合がある場合においてはその労働組合、労働者の過半数で組織する労働組合がない場合においては労働者の過半数を代表する者との書面による協定により、その期間又はその時間について、それぞれ、健康保険法（大正十一年法律第七十号）第四十条第一項に規定する標準報酬月額の三十分の一に相当する金額（その金額に、五円未満の端数があるときは、これを切り捨て、五円以上十円未満の端数があるときは、これを十円に切り上げるものとする。）又は当該金額を基準として厚生労働省令で定めるところにより算定した金額を支払う旨を定めたときは、これによらなければならない。
For a period of paid leave under the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (3) an employer must pay the average wage or the amount of wages that the worker would normally be paid for working the prescribed working hours pursuant to the rules of employment or anything equivalent thereto; and for the hours of paid leave under the provisions of paragraph (4), an employer must pay wages in the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare based on the average wage or the amount of wages that the worker would normally be paid for working the prescribed working hours pursuant to the rules of employment or anything equivalent thereto; provided, however, that if there is a written agreement with the labor union that has been organized by a majority of the workers at that workplace, if there is one, or with a person representing a majority of the workers at that workplace, if there is no such union, which provides that the employer will pay an amount of money equivalent to one thirtieth of the monthly amount of standard remuneration provided for in paragraph (1) of Article 40 of the Health Insurance Law (Act No. 70 of 1922) for that period (with amounts of less than five yen rounded down to the nearest ten yen and amounts of at least five but less than ten yen rounded up to the nearest ten yen) or that the employer will pay an amount of money calculated pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare based on the aforementioned amount for those hours, the payment of wages is governed by that agreement.
労働者が業務上負傷し、又は疾病にかかり療養のために休業した期間及び育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律第二条第一号に規定する育児休業又は同条第二号に規定する介護休業をした期間並びに産前産後の女性が第六十五条の規定によつて休業した期間は、第一項及び第二項の規定の適用については、これを出勤したものとみなす。
To apply the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2), a worker is deemed to have reported for work in a period during which the worker was absent from work due to medical treatment for an injury sustained or illness suffered in the course of employment, in a period during which the worker was on child care leave as prescribed in Article 2, item (i) of the Act on Childcare Leave, Caregiver Leave, and Other Measures for the Welfare of Workers Caring for Children or Other Family Members or was on family care leave as prescribed in item (ii) of that Article, or in a period during which the female worker was absent from work before or after childbirth in accordance with the provisions of Article 65.