# 労働契約法 / Labor Contracts Act — 第十四条 (Article 14) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/art-14. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 労働契約法 (Labor Contracts Act), 平成十九年法律第百二十八号 - English title "Labor Contracts 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: 第十四条 (Article 14)（出向） — address `art-14` - Text in force since: 2020-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/art-14 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/art-14 - 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. --- ### 第十四条（出向） — (Temporary Transfer) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/art-14 **第一項** 使用者が労働者に出向を命ずることができる場合において、当該出向の命令が、その必要性、対象労働者の選定に係る事情その他の事情に照らして、その権利を濫用したものと認められる場合には、当該命令は、無効とする。 art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/art-14/par-1 If an Employer may order the temporary transfer of a Worker, and such order of temporary transfer is found to be an abuse of rights in light of the need for such temporary transfer, the circumstances pertaining to the selection of the Worker to be temporarily transferred, or any other circumstances, such order is invalid. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 公益通報者保護法 第八条第三項（解釈規定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/whistleblower-protection-act/art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000122/art-8/par-3 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 労働契約法 — the text in force from 2020-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/419AC0000000128/20200401_430AC0000000071), retrieved 2026-09-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Labor Contracts Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3744/tb), retrieved 2026-09-10 - This site's parser, version 211 — 労働契約法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-10