Article 24Measures Related to Workers who Take Care of a Child before Starting Elementary School
第二十四条（小学校就学の始期に達するまでの子を養育する労働者等に関する措置）
Employers must, with regard to an employed worker who takes care of a child before starting elementary school, endeavor to take measures to grant short-term leave which the worker can use for purposes related to childcare based on an application from the worker (other than short-term leave for sick/injured childcare, etc., short-term leave for caregiver, the leave prescribed in Article 23-3, paragraph (1), item (iv), and leave which is granted as annual paid leave pursuant to the provisions of Article 39 of the Labor Standards Act, including short-term leave which allows a worker to prepare for childcare after childbirth) and take necessary measures respectively in accordance with the system or measures provided for in the following items in accordance with the category of the worker listed in those items:
事業主は、その雇用する労働者のうち、その小学校就学の始期に達するまでの子を養育する労働者に関して、労働者の申出に基づく育児に関する目的のために利用することができる休暇（子の看護等休暇、介護休暇、前条第一項第四号に規定する休暇及び労働基準法第三十九条の規定による年次有給休暇として与えられるものを除き、出産後の養育について出産前において準備することができる休暇を含む。）を与えるための措置及び次の各号に掲げる当該労働者の区分に応じ当該各号に定める制度又は措置に準じて、それぞれ必要な措置を講ずるように努めなければならない。
a worker (excluding a worker prescribed in Article 23, paragraph (2); the same applies in the following item) who takes care of a child under one year of age (or one year and six months of age in cases where the worker may file an application pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (3), and two years of age in cases where the worker may file an application pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (4) of the same Article; the same applies in the same item) and has not taken childcare leave:measures including a change of the starting time;
a worker who takes care of a child from one year to three years of age:system for childcare leave or measures including a change of the starting time; or
その一歳から三歳に達するまでの子を養育する労働者 育児休業に関する制度又は始業時刻変更等の措置
a worker who takes care of a child from three years of age until starting elementary school:system for childcare leave; or
その三歳から小学校就学の始期に達するまでの子を養育する労働者 育児休業に関する制度
Beyond what is provided for in the preceding paragraph, employers must, with regard to an employed worker who takes care of a child under three years of age (excluding a worker prescribed in Article 23, paragraph (2)) and who does not take childcare leave, endeavor to take necessary measures in accordance with measures for working from home, etc.
Employers must, with regard to an employed worker who takes care of a family member, endeavor to take necessary measures in accordance with the system of caregiver leave or short-term leave for caregiver or measures to shorten prescribed working hours for caregivers by giving taking into consideration the period, the frequency for care.
事業主は、その雇用する労働者のうち、その家族を介護する労働者に関して、介護休業若しくは介護休暇に関する制度又は介護のための所定労働時間の短縮等の措置に準じて、その介護を必要とする期間、回数等に配慮した必要な措置を講ずるように努めなければならない。
Beyond what is provided for in the preceding paragraph, employers must, with regard to an employed worker who takes care of an applicable family member requiring caregiving and who does not take caregiver leave, endeavor to take measures to make it easier for the worker to take care of the applicable family member requiring caregiving while continuing working, by having the worker engage in working from home, etc. based on an application from the worker.
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(Annual Paid Leave)
An employer must grant paid leave of 10 consecutive or nonconsecutive working days to a worker who has been employed continuously for six months from the day of their hiring and who has worked on at…
使用者は、その雇入れの日から起算して六箇月間継続勤務し全労働日の八割以上出勤した労働者に対して、継続し、又は分割した十労働日の有給休暇を与えなければならない。
Open this provisionMeasures Related to Workers who Take Care of a Child from Three Years of Age until Starting Elementary School
Measures to grant leave (other than short-term leave for sick/injured childcare, etc., short-term leave for caregiver, and leave granted as annual paid leave pursuant to the provisions of Article 39…
労働者が就業しつつ当該子を養育することを容易にするための休暇（子の看護等休暇、介護休暇及び労働基準法第三十九条の規定による年次有給休暇として与えられるものを除く。）を与えるための措置
Open this provision(Measures including the Shortening of Prescribed Working Hours)
Employers must, if they decide not to take measures to shorten prescribed working hours for childcare with regard to an employed worker set forth in item (iii) of the same paragraph who takes care of…
事業主は、その雇用する労働者のうち、前項ただし書の規定により同項第三号に掲げる労働者であってその三歳に満たない子を養育するものについて育児のための所定労働時間の短縮措置を講じないこととするときは、当該労働者に関して、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより…
Open this provision(Measures Related to Workers who Take Care of a Child before Starting Elementary School)
Employers must, with regard to an employed worker who takes care of a child before starting elementary school, endeavor to take measures to grant short-term leave which the worker can use for…
事業主は、その雇用する労働者のうち、その小学校就学の始期に達するまでの子を養育する労働者に関して、労働者の申出に基づく育児に関する目的のために利用することができる休暇（子の看護等休暇、介護休暇、前条第一項第四号に規定する休暇及び労働基準法第三十九条の規定による年次有給休暇として与えられるものを除き、出産後の養育につい…
Open this provision(Measures Related to Workers who Take Care of a Child before Starting Elementary School)
a worker who takes care of a child from one year to three years of age:system for childcare leave or measures including a change of the starting time; or
その一歳から三歳に達するまでの子を養育する労働者 育児休業に関する制度又は始業時刻変更等の措置
Open this provision(Measures Related to Workers who Take Care of a Child before Starting Elementary School)
Employers must, with regard to an employed worker who takes care of a family member, endeavor to take necessary measures in accordance with the system of caregiver leave or short-term leave for…
事業主は、その雇用する労働者のうち、その家族を介護する労働者に関して、介護休業若しくは介護休暇に関する制度又は介護のための所定労働時間の短縮等の措置に準じて、その介護を必要とする期間、回数等に配慮した必要な措置を講ずるように努めなければならない。
Open this provision(Application for Childcare Leave)
A worker may take childcare leave upon applying to their employer if the child that worker takes care of is between one year and one year and six months of age…
労働者は、その養育する一歳から一歳六か月に達するまでの子について、次の各号のいずれにも該当する場合（厚生労働省令で定める特別の事情がある場合には、第二号に該当する場合）に限り、その事業主に申し出ることにより、育児休業をすることができる。
Open this provision(Application for Childcare Leave)
A worker may take childcare leave upon applying to their employer if the child that worker takes care of is between one year and six months and two years of age…
労働者は、その養育する一歳六か月から二歳に達するまでの子について、次の各号のいずれにも該当する場合（前項の厚生労働省令で定める特別の事情がある場合には、第二号に該当する場合）に限り、その事業主に申し出ることにより、育児休業をすることができる。
Open this provisionchildcare leavemachine translation
「育児休業」
Leave from work that a worker, other than one hired day by day, takes under Chapter II to raise their child — including a child they have asked the family court to adopt by special adoption (特別養子縁組) and a child placed with them as a prospective adoptive foster parent — as a rule until the child turns one, and in some cases up to two.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies throughout the law
caregiver leave
「介護休業」
Leave from work that a worker takes under Chapter III to care for an applicable family member (対象家族) in a condition requiring caregiving (要介護状態) — up to three times, and 93 days in total, for each family member (Article 11).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (ii)· applies throughout the law
requiring caregiving
「要介護状態」
A condition in which a person needs constant care, over a period a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets, because of injury, illness, or physical or mental disability.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (iii)· applies throughout the law
applicable family member
「対象家族」
A worker's spouse (including a partner in a marriage not registered but lived as one), parents and children — with people a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) treats as equivalent to them — and the spouse's parents.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (iv)· applies throughout the law
family member
「家族」
An applicable family member (対象家族) — a spouse, parent, child or spouse's parent — or another relative a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) specifies.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (v)· applies throughout the law
short-term leave for sick/injured childcare, etc.machine translation
「子の看護等休暇」
Leave a worker raising a child who has not yet passed the first 31 March after reaching nine years of age can take, on application to the employer, to look after the child when injured or sick, for care a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets to prevent illness, for a school closure to prevent infection under Article 20 of the School Health and Safety Act or a similar event the Order sets, or to attend a school or childcare event the Order sets — up to five working days a year, or ten for two or more such children (Article 16-2).
Short name set inArticle 16-2, paragraph (1)
short-term leave for caregiver
「介護休暇」
Leave a worker can take, on application to the employer, to care for a family member in a condition requiring caregiving (要介護状態) or to look after them in another way a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets — up to five working days a year, or ten where two or more family members are in that condition, the year running from April to March unless the employer sets otherwise (Article 16-5).
Short name set inArticle 16-5, paragraph (1)
working from home, etc.machine translation
「在宅勤務等」
Work done at the worker's home, or at another place set as equivalent to a home by the labor contract (労働契約), a collective agreement (労働協約), the work rules (就業規則) or similar — for staff of an agency engaged in administrative execution (行政執行法人), by a collective agreement, the work rules or similar (Article 23, paragraph 2, item 1 and Article 61, paragraph 29, item 1).
Short name set inArticle 23, paragraph (2), item (i)· applies only in this provision and in Article 24, paragraph (4)
measures for working from home, etc.machine translation
「在宅勤務等の措置」
Arrangements letting a worker raising a child work from home or another place treated as home (在宅勤務等), on the worker's application — or, for staff of an agency engaged in administrative execution (行政執行法人), on their request for approval — so that they can work while raising the child (Article 23, paragraph 2, item 1 and Article 61, paragraph 29, item 1).
Short name set inArticle 23, paragraph (2), item (i)· applies only in this provision and in Article 23-3, paragraph (1), item (ii); and Article 24, paragraph (2)
measures including a change of the starting timemachine translation
「始業時刻変更等の措置」
Arrangements that make it easier for a worker to work while raising a child — letting the worker set their own starting and finishing times under Article 32-3, paragraph 1 of the Labor Standards Act, and the other measures a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) specifies — provided on the worker's application or, for staff of an agency engaged in administrative execution (行政執行法人), on their request for approval (Article 23, paragraph 2, item 2 and Article 61, paragraph 29, item 2).
Short name set inArticle 23, paragraph (2), item (ii)· applies only in this provision and in Article 23-3, paragraph (1), item (i); and Article 24, paragraph (1), items (i) and (ii)
measures to shorten prescribed working hours for caregiversmachine translation
「介護のための所定労働時間の短縮等の措置」
Shorter scheduled working hours, or other arrangements that make it easier to work while giving care, which Article 23, paragraph 3 requires an employer to provide on the worker's application, over a period of at least three consecutive years, to a worker caring for an applicable family member (対象家族) in a condition requiring caregiving (要介護状態) who is not on caregiver leave (介護休業) — save for workers a written labor-management agreement excludes.
Short name set inArticle 23, paragraph (3)· applies only in this article and in Article 24, paragraph (3)