# 職業安定法 / Employment Security Act — 第三条 (Article 3) - Law: 職業安定法 (Employment Security Act), 昭和二十二年法律第百四十一号 - English title "Employment Security 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: 第三条 (Article 3)（均等待遇） — address `art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条（均等待遇） — (Equal Treatment) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-3 **第一項** 何人も、人種、国籍、信条、性別、社会的身分、門地、従前の職業、労働組合の組合員であること等を理由として、職業紹介、職業指導等について、差別的取扱を受けることがない。但し、労働組合法の規定によつて、雇用主と労働組合との間に締結された労働協約に別段の定のある場合は、この限りでない。 art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-3/par-1 No person will be treated discriminatorily in matters such as employment placement or vocational guidance on the grounds of race, nationality, creed, sex, social status, family origin, previous profession, labor union membership, or any other similar characteristic; provided, however, that this does not apply if otherwise provided for in a collective agreement entered into between an employer and a labor union under the Labor Union Act. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 職業安定法 第四十八条第一項（指針） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-48/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 職業安定法 — the text in force from 2026-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000141/20260401_506AC0000000050), retrieved 2026-10-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Employment Security Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4627/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch employment-security-act-20261017T220554-001, translated 2026-10-18 - This site's parser, version 209 — 職業安定法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17