①The report under the provisions of paragraph (4) of Article 38-4 of the Act must be made to the Director of the Labor Standards Office Concerned according to Form No. 13-4, once within six months counting from the starting date of the validity period of the resolution provided in paragraph (1) of that Article, and thereafter once in every period not exceeding one year.

②The report under the provisions of paragraph (4) of Article 38-4 of the Act is to be made on the status of the working hours of the workers provided in item (iv) of paragraph (1) of that Article and the status of implementation of the measures to ensure the health and welfare of those workers, and the status of implementation of the consent referred to in item (vi) of that paragraph and the withdrawal thereof.

①The hours prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under paragraph (3) of Article 39 of the Act shall be 30 hours.

②The number of days stipulated by Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as the prescribed working days in a week for ordinary workers under paragraph (3) of Article 39 of the Act shall be 5.2 days.

④The number of days prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under item (i) of paragraph (3) of Article 39 of the Act shall be 4 days.

⑤The number of days prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under item (ii) of paragraph (3) of Article 39 of the Act shall be 216 days.

Matters prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under item (iii) of paragraph (4) of Article 39 of the Act shall be as follows:

①When an employer has decided, under the provisions of the proviso to paragraph (7) of Article 39 of the Act, to grant 10 or more working days of paid leave under the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (3) of that Article, the employer must grant five days out of the number of days of that paid leave by specifying the time thereof within a period of one year from the day, being a day prior to the base date (meaning the base date referred to in paragraph (7) of that Article; the same applies hereinafter in this Article), on which the employer decided to grant 10 or more working days of paid leave (hereinafter referred to as the "first base date" in this Article and Article 24-7).

②Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, when an employer has decided to grant 10 or more working days of paid leave under the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (3) of Article 39 of the Act on the base date or the first base date, and has decided to newly grant 10 or more working days of paid leave on a specified day within one year from that base date or first base date (hereinafter referred to as the "second base date" in this Article and Article 24-7), the employer may grant, during the fulfillment period (meaning the period beginning on the base date or the first base date and ending on the day on which one year elapses from the second base date; the same applies hereinafter in this Article), the number of days obtained by dividing the number of months in the fulfillment period by 12 and multiplying the result by five, by specifying the time thereof.

③In the case where the period referred to in paragraph (1) or the fulfillment period referred to in the preceding paragraph has elapsed, the first day of each of the periods obtained by dividing the time from the day on which it elapsed into one-year periods (or, when a period of less than one year arises at the end, that period) is deemed to be the base date, and the provisions of the main clause of paragraph (7) of Article 39 of the Act apply.

④In the case where an employer has decided to grant, on a day on or before the base date (hereinafter referred to as a "specified day" in this paragraph), a number of days of paid leave under the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (3) of Article 39 of the Act that is less than 10 working days, if there are two or more specified days, the latest of the specified days up to the day on which those numbers of days of less than 10 working days come to 10 or more working days in total is deemed to be the first base date, and the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs apply. In this case, with respect to the number of days of paid leave granted under the provisions of paragraph (5) or (6) of that Article before the day deemed to be the first base date, it is not required to grant that leave by specifying the time thereof.

①In granting paid leave to a worker by specifying the time thereof under the provisions of paragraph (7) of Article 39 of the Act, an employer must, in advance, make clear to the worker that the paid leave is to be granted under the provisions of that paragraph, and then hear the opinion of the worker regarding the time thereof.

②An employer must endeavor to respect the opinion heard under the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

When an employer has granted paid leave under the provisions of paragraphs (5) through (7) of Article 39 of the Act, the employer must prepare a document which makes clear, for each worker, the time, the number of days and the base date (including the first base date and the second base date) (referred to as the "annual paid leave management register" in Article 55-2 and paragraph (3) of Article 56), and must preserve it during the period in which that paid leave was granted and for five years after the expiration of that period.

①The ordinary wages paid for working the prescribed working hours under the provisions of paragraph (9) of Article 39 of the Act are to be the amount calculated by the methods set forth below.

②The wages in the amount calculated as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare referred to in the main clause of paragraph (9) of Article 39 of the Act are to be wages in the amount obtained by dividing the average wage or the amount calculated under the provisions of the preceding paragraph by the number of prescribed working hours of that day.

③The amount calculated as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare referred to in the proviso to paragraph (9) of Article 39 of the Act is to be the amount obtained by dividing an amount equivalent to one-thirtieth of the standard monthly remuneration provided in paragraph (1) of Article 40 of the Health Insurance Act (Act No. 70 of 1922) (if that amount includes a fraction of less than five yen, the fraction is to be discarded, and if it includes a fraction of five yen or more but less than 10 yen, the fraction is to be rounded up to 10 yen) by the number of prescribed working hours of that day.

①An employer who usually employs less than 10 workers in a business stipulated in items (viii), (x) (except businesses producing motion pictures), (xiii), and (xiv) of appended table 1 of the Act may have a worker work up to 44 hours in a week and up to 8 hours in a day, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 32 of the Act.

②In the event that an employer has stipulated that the average weekly working hours in a period not exceeding one month shall not exceed 44 hours in a written agreement either with a labor union organized by a majority of the workers at the workplace concerned where such a labor union exists, or with a person representing a majority of the workers at a workplace where no such labor union exists (including a resolution adopted by majority of four fifths or more of the labor-management committee members or a resolution adopted by majority of four fifths or more of the members of the committee on the improvement of working time arrangements referred to in the provisions of Article 7 of the Improvement of Working Time Arrangements Act; hereinafter the same shall apply in this Article), or in the rules of employment, or the equivalent, the employer may, with respect to the businesses provided in the preceding paragraph and notwithstanding the provisions of that paragraph, have a worker work in excess of 44 hours in a specified week or in excess of 8 hours in a specified day in accordance with said stipulation.

③In the event that the following items have been provided in a written agreement either with a labor union organized by a majority of the workers at the workplace concerned ( in case where such labor union exists),or with a person representing a majority of the workers(in case where such union does not exist), the employer may have a worker who has discretion to decide the starting and ending time for work pursuant to rules of employment or the equivalent and notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph(1) with respect to the business provided in said paragraph, work in excess of 44 hours in a week or in excess of 8 hours in a day; provided the average working hours per week for the period prescribed as the settlement period stipulated in item (ii) below do not exceed 44 hours:

④With respect to the businesses provided in paragraph (1), the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs do not apply in the case where workers are made to work under the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 32-3 (limited to the case where the settlement period referred to in item (ii) of that paragraph exceeds one month), Article 32-4 or Article 32-5 of the Act.

①The provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 6-2 apply mutatis mutandis to the person representing a majority of the workers provided in paragraphs (2) and (3) of the preceding Article; the provisions of paragraphs (3) and (4) of Article 6-2 apply mutatis mutandis to the employer referred to in paragraphs (2) and (3) of the preceding Article; the provisions of Article 12 and paragraph (1) of Article 12-2 apply mutatis mutandis to a provision made under paragraphs (2) and (3) of the preceding Article; the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 12-2-2 apply mutatis mutandis to the agreement referred to in paragraph (2) of the preceding Article; and the provisions of Article 12-6 apply mutatis mutandis to the employer referred to in paragraph (2) of the preceding Article.

②An employer shall submit the agreement referred to in paragraph (2) of the preceding Article according to Form No. 3-2 to the Director of the Labor Standards Office Concerned.

With regard to those workers who work on board a train, diesel railcar, or electric railcar as reserve crew members in the businesses designated in item (iv) of appended table 1 of the Act, an employer may make them work for a period exceeding 40 hours a week or a period exceeding 8 hours a day, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 32-2 of the Act, to the extent that the average weekly working hours for a fixed period of one month or less do not exceed 40 hours.

The provisions of paragraph (2) of Article 34 of the Act shall not apply to the businesses designated in any of items (iv),(viii),(ix),(x),(xi), (xiii), and (xiv) of appended table 1 of the Act and businesses of public agencies (except the businesses designated in said appended table 1).

①With regard to those engineers, drivers, pilots, conductors, train masters, baggage men, trainmen, stewards, air conditioning engineers and power supply officers of a train, diesel railcar, electric railcar, automobile, ship or aircraft (hereinafter referred to as "crew members") who continuously work on board over a long distance among workers employed for the businesses designated in item (iv) of appended table 1 of the Act or for the postal or mail delivery businesses, and workers employed for the businesses designated in item (xi) of the same table who are engaged in postal business at business offices of Japan Post Co., Ltd. having less than 30 indoor workers (limited to business offices which provide postal counter service prescribed in Article 2 of the Post Office Branch Act (Act No. 213 of 1949)), an employer may give them no rest periods notwithstanding the provisions of Article 34 of the Act.

②With regard to those crew members who do not fall under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, an employer may give them no rest periods when it is found impossible to give them rest periods because of the nature of the work in which they are engaged, if the total of stoppage time, waiting time for turning back and other time while on duty is equal to the rest period prescribed in paragraph (1) of Article 34 of the Act, notwithstanding the provisions of the same Article.