# 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 — 第四条 (Article 4) - 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: 第四条 (Article 4)（事業主の責務） — address `art-4` - Text in force since: 2022-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-employment-act/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-4 - 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. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四条（事業主の責務） — (Employer's Responsibility) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-employment-act/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-4 **第一項** 事業主は、その雇用する高年齢者について職業能力の開発及び向上並びに作業施設の改善その他の諸条件の整備を行い、並びにその雇用する高年齢者等について再就職の援助等を行うことにより、その意欲及び能力に応じてその者のための雇用の機会の確保等が図られるよう努めるものとする。 art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-employment-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-4/par-1 By creating the necessary conditions such as those for developing and improving the work abilities of elderly persons that it employs, improving working facilities and taking various other measures, and by providing support and taking other actions for the elderly persons and others that it employs in order for them to be re-employed, the employer is to strive to secure opportunities for their employment in accordance with their wishes and abilities. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 事業主は、その雇用する労働者が高齢期においてその意欲及び能力に応じて就業することにより職業生活の充実を図ることができるようにするため、その高齢期における職業生活の設計について必要な援助を行うよう努めるものとする。 art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-employment-act/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-4/par-2 The employer is to strive to provide the necessary support for workers employed by the employer to prepare work plans for working as elderly persons in order to enable the workers to enrich their working lives by assisting them in their work as elderly persons in accordance with their wishes and abilities. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites 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 第六条第二項第三号（高年齢者等職業安定対策基本方針） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-employment-act/art-6/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-6/par-2/item-3 --- ## Sources - 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 - 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