An employer must not assign a pregnant female worker or a female worker who is not yet one year postnatal (referred to below as an "expectant or postnatal mother") to operations involving the handling of heavy objects, operations in places where harmful gas is generated, or other operations that are hazardous to factors such as pregnancy, childbirth, and nursing.
使用者は、妊娠中の女性及び産後一年を経過しない女性（以下「妊産婦」という。）を、重量物を取り扱う業務、有害ガスを発散する場所における業務その他妊産婦の妊娠、出産、哺育等に有害な業務に就かせてはならない。
By Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the provisions of the preceding paragraph may be applied mutatis mutandis to female workers other than expectant or postnatal mothers, for operations provided for in that paragraph that are hazardous to female functions concerning pregnancy and childbirth.
Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribes the range of operations provided for in the preceding two paragraphs and the range of persons who must not be assigned to those operations pursuant to them.
前二項に規定する業務の範囲及びこれらの規定によりこれらの業務に就かせてはならない者の範囲は、厚生労働省令で定める。
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
expectant or postnatal mother
「妊産婦」
A pregnant woman, or a woman less than one year after giving birth.
Short name set inArticle 64-3, paragraph (1)