# 職業安定法 / Employment Security Act — 第五条の八 (Article 5-8) - 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: 第五条の八 (Article 5-8)（求職者の能力に適合する職業の紹介等） — address `art-5-8` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-5-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-5-8 - 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. --- ### 第五条の八（求職者の能力に適合する職業の紹介等） — (Referring Job Seekers to Employment Suitable for Their Abilities) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-5-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-5-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-5-8 **第一項** 公共職業安定所、特定地方公共団体及び職業紹介事業者は、求職者に対しては、その能力に適合する職業を紹介し、求人者に対しては、その雇用条件に適合する求職者を紹介するように努めなければならない。 art-5-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-5-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-5-8/par-1 A public employment security office, specified local public entity, and employment placement service provider must endeavor to introduce job seekers to occupations that suits their abilities, and must aim to recommend job seekers to employers who match the poster's employment conditions. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 外国人の技能実習の適正な実施及び技能実習生の保護に関する法律 第二十七条第二項（職業安定法の特例等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/technical-intern-training-act/art-27/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/428AC0000000089/art-27/par-2 - 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第三十八条第三項（業務等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-employment-act/art-38/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-38/par-3 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 209 — 職業安定法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17