Article 9-3Obligations of Employers when an Application for Parental Leave is Filed
第九条の三（出生時育児休業申出があった場合における事業主の義務等）
Employers may not, when an application for parental leave is filed by a worker, refuse the application for parental leave; provided, however, that this does not apply to cases where a new application for parental leave is filed by a worker with regard to a child that worker has already been taking care of on the day on which the application for parental leave had been filed by that worker after the application for parental leave is filed by that worker with regard to a child that worker takes care of.
事業主は、労働者からの出生時育児休業申出があったときは、当該出生時育児休業申出を拒むことができない。ただし、労働者からその養育する子について出生時育児休業申出がなされた後に、当該労働者から当該出生時育児休業申出をした日に養育していた子について新たに出生時育児休業申出がなされた場合は、この限りでない。
The provisions of Article 6, the proviso of paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to cases where a worker files an application for parental leave. In this case, the term "the proviso of the preceding paragraph" in the same paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "Article 9-3, the proviso of paragraph (1) and the proviso of the preceding paragraph as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 9-3, paragraph (2)," and the term "paragraphs (1), (3) and (4) of the preceding Article" in the same paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "Article 9-2, paragraph (1)."
An employer may, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, in cases where a worker files an application for parental leave, when the scheduled start date for parental leave in the application falls before the day on which two weeks elapse from the day following the date of the relevant application (referred to as "two weeks expiry date" hereinafter in this paragraph), designate as the scheduled start date for parental leave any day during the period between the scheduled start date for parental leave and the two weeks expiry date (or, in cases where there are reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare provided for in Article 6, paragraph (3) before the day of the application for parental leave, a day which falls before the two weeks expiry date and which is specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare).
事業主は、労働者からの出生時育児休業申出があった場合において、当該出生時育児休業申出に係る出生時育児休業開始予定日とされた日が当該出生時育児休業申出があった日の翌日から起算して二週間を経過する日（以下この項において「二週間経過日」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、当該出生時育児休業開始予定日とされた日から当該二週間経過日（当該出生時育児休業申出があった日までに、第六条第三項の厚生労働省令で定める事由が生じた場合にあっては、当該二週間経過日前の日で厚生労働省令で定める日）までの間のいずれかの日を当該出生時育児休業開始予定日として指定することができる。
In regard to the application of the provisions under the preceding paragraph in cases where the following matters are set forth in a written agreement between the employer and a labor union, if any, organized by a majority of workers at the place of business where the worker is employed or, when there is no labor union organized by the majority of workers at the place of business where the worker is employed, a person who represents the majority of workers, the term "the day on which two weeks elapse (referred to as "two week expiry date" hereinafter in this paragraph) in the same paragraph refers to "the day on which the period set forth in item (ii) of the following paragraph elapse," and "the two week expiry date" in the same paragraph refers to "the day on which the period set forth in the same item elapsed."
details of improvement of the employment environment and other measures specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare for the purpose of smooth implementation of applications for parental leave; and
出生時育児休業申出が円滑に行われるようにするための雇用環境の整備その他の厚生労働省令で定める措置の内容
period between the day following the day on which an application for parental leave is filed for which an employer may designate the scheduled start date for parental leave in the application for parental leave and the day designated as the scheduled start date for parental leave (limited to a period of over two weeks but not more than one month).
事業主が出生時育児休業申出に係る出生時育児休業開始予定日を指定することができる出生時育児休業申出があった日の翌日から出生時育児休業開始予定日とされた日までの期間（二週間を超え一月以内の期間に限る。）
The provisions of the proviso of paragraph (1) and the preceding three paragraphs do not apply to cases where a worker files an application for parental leave prescribed in paragraph (4) of the preceding Article.