# 雇用の分野における男女の均等な機会及び待遇の確保等に関する法律 / Act on Equal Opportunity and Treatment between Men and Women in Employment — 第三十八条 (Article 38) - Law: 雇用の分野における男女の均等な機会及び待遇の確保等に関する法律 (Act on Equal Opportunity and Treatment between Men and Women in Employment), 昭和四十七年法律第百十三号 - English title "Act on Equal Opportunity and Treatment between Men and Women in Employment": 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: 第三十八条 (Article 38)（適用除外） — address `art-38` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/equal-employment-opportunity-act/art-38 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000113/art-38 - 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. --- ### 第三十八条（適用除外） — (Exclusion from Application) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-38 · https://japanlaw.org/en/equal-employment-opportunity-act/art-38 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000113/art-38 **第一項** 第二章第一節、第十九条、同章第三節、前章、第三十五条及び第三十六条の規定は、国家公務員及び地方公務員に、第二章第二節（第十九条を除く。）の規定は、一般職の国家公務員（行政執行法人の労働関係に関する法律（昭和二十三年法律第二百五十七号）第二条第二号の職員を除く。）、裁判所職員臨時措置法（昭和二十六年法律第二百九十九号）の適用を受ける裁判所職員、国会職員法（昭和二十二年法律第八十五号）の適用を受ける国会職員及び自衛隊法（昭和二十九年法律第百六十五号）第二条第五項に規定する隊員に関しては適用しない。 art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/equal-employment-opportunity-act/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000113/art-38/par-1 The provisions of Chapter II, Section 1, Article 19, Chapter II, Section 3, the preceding Chapter, Articles 35 and 36 do not apply to national and local public employees; the provisions of Chapter II, Section 2 (except for Article 19) do not apply to regular service national public employees (except for employees referred to in Article 2, item (ii) of the Act on Labor Relations of Agency Engaged in Administrative Execution (Act No. 257 of 1948)), court officers for whom the Act on Temporary Measures concerning Court Officials (Act No. 299 of 1951) is applicable, Diet officers for whom the Diet Officers Act (Act No. 85 of 1947) is applicable, and the self-defense forces personnel prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Self-Defense Forces Act (Act No. 165 of 1954). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-38/par-1: 第十九条 → 雇用の分野における男女の均等な機会及び待遇の確保等に関する法律 第十九条 (Article 19), art-19 — https://japanlaw.org/en/equal-employment-opportunity-act/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000113/art-19 - art-38/par-1: 第三十五条 → 雇用の分野における男女の均等な機会及び待遇の確保等に関する法律 第三十五条 (Article 35), art-35 — https://japanlaw.org/en/equal-employment-opportunity-act/art-35 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000113/art-35 - art-38/par-1: 第三十六条 → 雇用の分野における男女の均等な機会及び待遇の確保等に関する法律 第三十六条 (Article 36), art-36 — https://japanlaw.org/en/equal-employment-opportunity-act/art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000113/art-36 - art-38/par-1: 行政執行法人の労働関係に関する法律（昭和二十三年法律第二百五十七号）第二条第二号 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000257, 第二条第一項第二号 (Article 2, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-2/par-1/item-2 — not held in this collection - art-38/par-1: 自衛隊法（昭和二十九年法律第百六十五号）第二条第五項 → e-Gov law 329AC0000000165, 第二条第五項 (Article 2, paragraph (5)), art-2/par-5 — not held in this collection --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 雇用の分野における男女の均等な機会及び待遇の確保等に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/347AC0000000113/20261001_507AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-10-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Equal Opportunity and Treatment between Men and Women in Employment — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4190/tb), retrieved 2026-09-29 - claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation, batch equal-employment-opportunity-act-20261005T073201-002, translated 2026-10-05 - This site's parser, version 201 — 雇用の分野における男女の均等な機会及び待遇の確保等に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-05