# 雇用保険法 / Employment Insurance Act — 第十四条 (Article 14)

- Law: 雇用保険法 (Employment Insurance Act), 昭和四十九年法律第百十六号
- English title "Employment Insurance Act": Ministry of Justice translation
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- Provision: 第十四条 (Article 14)（被保険者期間） — address `art-14`
- Text in force since: 2026-05-13
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### 第十四条（被保険者期間） — (Insured Period)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-14</sup>

    **第一項**  被保険者期間は、被保険者であつた期間のうち、当該被保険者でなくなつた日又は各月においてその日に応当し、かつ、当該被保険者であつた期間内にある日（その日に応当する日がない月においては、その月の末日。以下この項において「喪失応当日」という。）の各前日から各前月の喪失応当日までさかのぼつた各期間（賃金の支払の基礎となつた日数が十一日以上であるものに限る。）を一箇月として計算し、その他の期間は、被保険者期間に算入しない。ただし、当該被保険者となつた日からその日後における最初の喪失応当日の前日までの期間の日数が十五日以上であり、かつ、当該期間内における賃金の支払の基礎となつた日数が十一日以上であるときは、当該期間を二分の一箇月の被保険者期間として計算する。
    <sup>art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-14/par-1</sup>
    Each period (limited to the periods with 11 or more days as basis of the payment of wages) within the overall insured period when the person was an insured person, counted backwards from the day on which the person ceased to be an insured person or from the day before each day that corresponds to that day in each month and is within the overall insured period (for months that do not have a day corresponding to that day, the last day of the month; hereinafter referred to as the "substitute corresponding day" in this paragraph), to the substitute corresponding day in each previous month is calculated as a full month, and other periods are not to be included in the overall insured period; provided, however, that when the number of days in the period from the day on which the person became an insured person, to the day before the first substitute corresponding day thereafter, is 15 days or more and the number of days in the period based on which payment of wages was made is 11 days or more, the period is calculated as an insured period of half a month.
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

    **第二項**  前項の規定により被保険者期間を計算する場合において、次に掲げる期間は、同項に規定する被保険者であつた期間に含めない。
    <sup>art-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-14/par-2</sup>
    The periods listed in each of the following items are not to be included when calculating the period in which the person was an insured person prescribed in the preceding paragraph, pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph:
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

      **一**  最後に被保険者となつた日前に、当該被保険者が受給資格（前条第一項（同条第二項において読み替えて適用する場合を含む。）の規定により基本手当の支給を受けることができる資格をいう。次節から第四節までを除き、以下同じ。）、第三十七条の三第二項に規定する高年齢受給資格又は第三十九条第二項に規定する特例受給資格を取得したことがある場合には、当該受給資格、高年齢受給資格又は特例受給資格に係る離職の日以前における被保険者であつた期間
      <sup>art-14/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-14/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-14/par-2/item-1</sup>
      in the case where the person had obtained recipient qualification (meaning qualification for receiving the basic allowance pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (including cases where that paragraph is applied pursuant to paragraph (2) of the same Article, following the deemed replacement of terms); hereinafter the same applies, except for the following Section to Section 4), the recipient qualification for the elderly prescribed in Article 37-3, paragraph (2), or the special recipient qualification prescribed in Article 39, paragraph (2), before the day on which the person last became an insured person, the period during which the person was an insured person preceding the day of separation from service pertaining to the recipient qualification, recipient qualification for the elderly, or special recipient qualification;
      <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

      **二**  第九条の規定による被保険者となつたことの確認があつた日の二年前の日（第二十二条第五項に規定する者にあつては、同項第二号に規定する被保険者の負担すべき額に相当する額がその者に支払われた賃金から控除されていたことが明らかである時期のうち最も古い時期として厚生労働省令で定める日）前における被保険者であつた期間
      <sup>art-14/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-14/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-14/par-2/item-2</sup>
      the period during which the person was an insured person before the day two years preceding the day on which it was confirmed that the person had become an insured person pursuant to the provisions of Article 9 (for a person prescribed in Article 22, paragraph (5), the day specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as the earliest time at which it is evident that an amount equivalent to the amount to be borne by the insured person prescribed in item (ii) of that paragraph had been deducted from the wages paid to that person); and
      <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

      **三**  当該被保険者が教育訓練休暇給付金の支給を受けたことがある場合には、第六十条の三第一項に規定する休暇開始日前における被保険者であつた期間
      <sup>art-14/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-14/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-14/par-2/item-3</sup>
      in the case where the insured person has received payment of educational training leave benefits, the period during which the person was an insured person before the leave commencement day prescribed in Article 60-3, paragraph (1).
      <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

    **第三項**  前二項の規定により計算された被保険者期間が十二箇月（前条第二項の規定により読み替えて適用する場合にあつては、六箇月）に満たない場合における第一項の規定の適用については、同項中「であるもの」とあるのは「であるもの又は賃金の支払の基礎となつた時間数が八十時間以上であるもの」と、「であるとき」とあるのは「であるとき又は賃金の支払の基礎となつた時間数が八十時間以上であるとき」とする。
    <sup>art-14/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-14/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-14/par-3</sup>
    With regard to the application of the provisions of paragraph (1) in the case where the insured period calculated pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs is less than 12 months (six months, in the case where the terms are replaced pursuant to paragraph (2) of the preceding Article), the phrase "periods with 11 or more days as basis of the payment of wages" in paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "periods with 11 or more days as basis of the payment of wages or with 80 or more hours as basis of the payment of wages", and the phrase "is 11 days or more" with "is 11 days or more or the number of hours in the period based on which payment of wages was made is 80 hours or more".
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-14/par-1: この項 → 雇用保険法 第十四条第一項 (Article 14, paragraph (1)), art-14/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-14/par-1
- art-14/par-2: 前項 → 雇用保険法 第十四条第一項 (Article 14, paragraph (1)), art-14/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-14/par-1
- art-14/par-2/item-1: 前条第一項 → 雇用保険法 第十三条第一項 (Article 13, paragraph (1)), art-13/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-13/par-1
- art-14/par-2/item-1: 同条第二項 → 雇用保険法 第十三条第二項 (Article 13, paragraph (2)), art-13/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-13/par-2
- art-14/par-2/item-1: 第三十七条の三第二項 → 雇用保険法 第三十七条の三第二項 (Article 37-3, paragraph (2)), art-37-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-37-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-37-3/par-2
- art-14/par-2/item-1: 第三十九条第二項 → 雇用保険法 第三十九条第二項 (Article 39, paragraph (2)), art-39/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-39/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-39/par-2
- art-14/par-2/item-2: 第九条 → 雇用保険法 第九条 (Article 9), art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-9
- art-14/par-2/item-2: 第二十二条第五項 → 雇用保険法 第二十二条第五項 (Article 22, paragraph (5)), art-22/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-22/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-22/par-5
- art-14/par-2/item-2: 同項第二号 → 雇用保険法 第二十二条第五項第二号 (Article 22, paragraph (5), item (ii)), art-22/par-5/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-22/par-5/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-22/par-5/item-2
- art-14/par-2/item-3: 第六十条の三第一項 → 雇用保険法 第六十条の三第一項 (Article 60-3, paragraph (1)), art-60-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-60-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-60-3/par-1
- art-14/par-3: 前二項 → 雇用保険法 第十四条第一項 (Article 14, paragraph (1)), art-14/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-14/par-1
- art-14/par-3: 前二項 → 雇用保険法 第十四条第二項 (Article 14, paragraph (2)), art-14/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-14/par-2
- art-14/par-3: 前条第二項 → 雇用保険法 第十三条第二項 (Article 13, paragraph (2)), art-13/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-13/par-2

## Cited by

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- 雇用保険法 第五十六条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-56-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-56-2/par-1
- 雇用保険法 第五十六条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-56-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-56-2/par-2
- 雇用保険法 第五十六条の二第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-56-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-56-2/par-3
- 雇用保険法 第六十条の三第二項（教育訓練休暇給付金） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-60-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-60-3/par-2
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