Article 7Application for a Change to the Scheduled Start Date for Childcare Leave
第七条（育児休業開始予定日の変更の申出等）
A worker who has filed an application for childcare leave pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) may, in cases where there are reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare provided for in paragraph (3) of the preceding Article on or before the day preceding the scheduled start date for childcare leave in the application (in cases where the employer designates the day pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article, the day designated by the employer; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph), change the scheduled start date for childcare leave only once in the application to a day before the scheduled start date for childcare leave, by notifying the employer.
An employer may, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, in cases where a worker files an application pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, when the changed scheduled start date for childcare leave in the application falls before the day on which the period specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare within a period not exceeding one month from the day following the date of the application elapses (referred to as the "period expiry date" hereinafter in this paragraph), designate as a scheduled start date for childcare leave for the worker, any day during the period from the changed scheduled start date for childcare leave in the application until the period expiry date (in cases where the day falls after the original scheduled start date for childcare leave (in cases where the employer designates the day pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article, the day designated by the employer; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph), the original scheduled start date for childcare leave in the application).
事業主は、前項の規定による労働者からの申出があった場合において、当該申出に係る変更後の育児休業開始予定日とされた日が当該申出があった日の翌日から起算して一月を超えない範囲内で厚生労働省令で定める期間を経過する日（以下この項において「期間経過日」という。）前の日であるときは、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、当該申出に係る変更後の育児休業開始予定日とされた日から当該期間経過日（その日が当該申出に係る変更前の育児休業開始予定日とされていた日（前条第三項の規定による事業主の指定があった場合にあっては、当該事業主の指定した日。以下この項において同じ。）以後の日である場合にあっては、当該申出に係る変更前の育児休業開始予定日とされていた日）までの間のいずれかの日を当該労働者に係る育児休業開始予定日として指定することができる。
A worker who has filed an application for childcare leave may change the scheduled end date for the childcare leave to the day which falls after the scheduled end date for the childcare leave only once in the application, by notifying the employer on or before the day specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.