# 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 / Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons — 第十七条 (Article 17) - Law: 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 (Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons), 昭和四十六年法律第六十八号 - English title "Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第十七条 (Article 17)（求職活動支援書の作成等） — address `art-17` - Text in force since: 2022-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-employment-act/art-17 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-17 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十七条（求職活動支援書の作成等） — (Drafting a Support Plan for Job-Seeking) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-employment-act/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-17 **第一項** 事業主は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、解雇（自己の責めに帰すべき理由によるものを除く。）その他これに類するものとして厚生労働省令で定める理由（以下この項において「解雇等」という。）により離職することとなつている高年齢者等（厚生労働省令で定める者に限る。）が希望するときは、その円滑な再就職を促進するため、当該高年齢者等の職務の経歴、職業能力その他の当該高年齢者等の再就職に資する事項（解雇等の理由を除く。）として厚生労働省令で定める事項及び事業主が講ずる再就職援助措置を明らかにする書面（以下「求職活動支援書」という。）を作成し、当該高年齢者等に交付しなければならない。 art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-employment-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-17/par-1 When elderly persons and others (limited to those specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) who are to be separated from their employment due to dismissal (excluding dismissal based on grounds attributable to those persons themselves) or other reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as being similar to dismissal (hereinafter referred to as "dismissal or other disposition" in this paragraph) wish to be re-employed, an employer must draft a document (hereinafter referred to as the " Support Plan for Job-Seeking") pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, regarding the particulars specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare concerning the work experience and occupational abilities of the elderly persons and others, and other particulars that will help them become re-employed (excluding the reasons for their dismissal or other disposition), and that also clarifies the measures to be taken by the employer to support their re-employment, and issue it to the elderly persons and others, in order to facilitate their re-employment. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When elderly persons and others (limited to those specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) who have been separated from their employment due to dismissal (excluding dismissal based on grounds attributable to those persons themselves) or other reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as being similar to dismissal (hereinafter referred to as "dismissal or other disposition" in this paragraph) wish to be re-employed, an employer must draft a document (hereinafter referred to as the " Support Plan for Job-Seeking") pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, regarding the particulars specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare concerning the work experience and occupational abilities of the elderly persons and others, and other particulars that will help them become re-employed (excluding the reasons for their dismissal or other disposition), and that also clarifies the measures to be taken by the employer to support their re-employment, and issue it to the elderly persons and others, in order to facilitate their re-employment." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4630/tb **第二項** 前項の規定により求職活動支援書を作成した事業主は、その雇用する者のうちから再就職援助担当者を選任し、その者に、当該求職活動支援書に基づいて、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、公共職業安定所と協力して、当該求職活動支援書に係る高年齢者等の再就職の援助に関する業務を行わせるものとする。 art-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-employment-act/art-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-17/par-2 An employer who has drafted a Support Plan for Job-Seeking pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is to appoint a person to be in charge of re-employment support from among the persons employed by the employer and have that person provide, in accordance with the Support Plan for Job-Seeking, support for the re-employment of elderly persons and others that are subjects of the Support Plan for Job-Seeking in cooperation with public employment security offices and pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-17/par-1: この項 → 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第十七条第一項 (Article 17, paragraph (1)), art-17/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-employment-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-17/par-1 - art-17/par-2: 前項 → 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第十七条第一項 (Article 17, paragraph (1)), art-17/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-employment-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-17/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第十七条第一項（求職活動支援書の作成等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-employment-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-17/par-1 - 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第十七条第二項（求職活動支援書の作成等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-employment-act/art-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-17/par-2 - 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第十八条第一項（指導、助言及び勧告） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-employment-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-18/par-1 - 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第十八条第二項（指導、助言及び勧告） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-employment-act/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-18/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-09 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 — the text in force from 2022-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/346AC0000000068/20221001_504AC0000000012), retrieved 2026-10-09 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4630/tb), retrieved 2026-10-09 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons (高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律), Article 17, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4630/tb), retrieved 2026-10-09 - This site's parser, version 164 — 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-09