# 雇用保険法 / Employment Insurance Act — 第十九条 (Article 19) - 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 - 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: 第十九条 (Article 19)（基本手当の減額） — address `art-19` - Text in force since: 2026-05-13 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-19 - 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. --- ### 第十九条（基本手当の減額） — (Reduction of the Amount of the Basic Allowance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-19 **第一項** 受給資格者が、失業の認定に係る期間中に自己の労働によつて収入を得た場合には、その収入の基礎となつた日数（以下この項において「基礎日数」という。）分の基本手当の支給については、次に定めるところによる。 art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-19/par-1 If a qualified recipient has earned an income through labor during a period for which the recipient has obtained the recognition of unemployment, payment of the basic allowance for the number of days on which the income have been based (hereinafter referred to as the "number of basis days" in this paragraph) is as specified by the following provisions: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** その収入の一日分に相当する額（収入の総額を基礎日数で除して得た額をいう。）から千二百八十二円（その額が次項の規定により変更されたときは、その変更された額。同項において「控除額」という。）を控除した額と基本手当の日額との合計額（次号において「合計額」という。）が賃金日額の百分の八十に相当する額を超えないとき　基本手当の日額に基礎日数を乗じて得た額を支給する。 art-19/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-19/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-19/par-1/item-1 when the total of the amount obtained by deducting 1,282 yen (when the amount has been revised pursuant to the provisions of the following paragraph, the revised amount; referred to as the "amount of deduction" in that paragraph), from the amount equivalent to the amount of income for one day (meaning the amount obtained by dividing the total income by the number of basis days) and adding the daily amount of the basic allowance (referred to as the "total amount" in the following item) does not exceed an amount equivalent to 80 percent of the daily amount of wages:the amount obtained by multiplying the daily amount of the basic allowance by the number of basis days is to be paid; machine translation, not official **二** 合計額が賃金日額の百分の八十に相当する額を超えるとき（次号に該当する場合を除く。）　当該超える額（次号において「超過額」という。）を基本手当の日額から控除した残りの額に基礎日数を乗じて得た額を支給する。 art-19/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-19/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-19/par-1/item-2 when the total amount exceeds an amount equivalent to 80 percent of the daily amount of wages (excluding cases falling under the following item):the amount obtained by multiplying the remainder after deducting the excess amount (referred to as "the excess" in the following item) from the daily amount of the basic allowance by the number of basis days is to be paid; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 超過額が基本手当の日額以上であるとき　基礎日数分の基本手当を支給しない。 art-19/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-19/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-19/par-1/item-3 when the excess is more than the daily amount of the basic allowance:the basic allowance for the number of basis days is not to be paid. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 厚生労働大臣は、年度の平均給与額が平成二十七年四月一日から始まる年度（この項の規定により控除額が変更されたときは、直近の当該変更がされた年度の前年度）の平均給与額を超え、又は下るに至つた場合においては、その上昇し、又は低下した比率を基準として、その翌年度の八月一日以後の控除額を変更しなければならない。 art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-19/par-2 When the average earnings for the fiscal year have exceeded or fallen below the average earnings for the fiscal year starting on April 1, 2015 (when the amount of deduction has been changed pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph, the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year when the latest change was implemented), the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must change the amount of deduction applicable from August 1 of the following fiscal year in accordance with the percentage of the increase or decrease. machine translation, not official **第三項** 受給資格者は、失業の認定を受けた期間中に自己の労働によつて収入を得たときは、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、その収入の額その他の事項を公共職業安定所長に届け出なければならない。 art-19/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-19/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-19/par-3 When a qualified recipient has earned an income through labor during a period for which the recipient has obtained the recognition of unemployment, they must submit a notification on the amount of income and other matters to the chief of the Public Employment Security Office, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-19/par-1: この項 → 雇用保険法 第十九条第一項 (Article 19, paragraph (1)), art-19/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-19/par-1 - art-19/par-1/item-1: 次項 → 雇用保険法 第十九条第二項 (Article 19, paragraph (2)), art-19/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-19/par-2 - art-19/par-1/item-1: 次号 → 雇用保険法 第十九条第一項第二号 (Article 19, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-19/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-19/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-19/par-1/item-2 - art-19/par-1/item-2: 次号 → 雇用保険法 第十九条第一項第三号 (Article 19, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-19/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-19/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-19/par-1/item-3 - art-19/par-2: この項 → 雇用保険法 第十九条第二項 (Article 19, paragraph (2)), art-19/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-19/par-2 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 雇用保険法 第十九条第一項（基本手当の減額） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-19/par-1 - 雇用保険法 第十九条第一項第一号（基本手当の減額） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-19/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-19/par-1/item-1 - 雇用保険法 第十九条第一項第二号（基本手当の減額） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-19/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-19/par-1/item-2 - 雇用保険法 第十九条第二項（基本手当の減額） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-19/par-2 - 雇用保険法 第三十一条第二項（未支給の基本手当の請求手続） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-31/par-2 - 雇用保険法 第三十七条第九項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-37/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-37/par-9 - 雇用保険法 第七十四条第二項（時効） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-74/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-74/par-2 - 雇用保険法 第七十九条の二第一項（船員に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-79-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-79-2/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 雇用保険法 — the text in force from 2026-05-13 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/349AC0000000116/20260513_507AC0000000032), retrieved 2026-09-29 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Employment Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3877/tb), retrieved 2026-09-29 - claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employment-insurance-act-20260929T170833-002, translated 2026-09-30 - This site's parser, version 211 — 雇用保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-29