# 労働契約法 / Labor Contracts Act — 第七条 (Article 7) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/art-7. 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: 第七条 (Article 7) — address `art-7` - Text in force since: 2020-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/art-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条 art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/art-7 **第一項** 労働者及び使用者が労働契約を締結する場合において、使用者が合理的な労働条件が定められている就業規則を労働者に周知させていた場合には、労働契約の内容は、その就業規則で定める労働条件によるものとする。ただし、労働契約において、労働者及び使用者が就業規則の内容と異なる労働条件を合意していた部分については、第十二条に該当する場合を除き、この限りでない。 art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/art-7/par-1 If a Worker and an Employer conclude a labor contract, and the Employer has informed the Worker of the rules of employment that provide for reasonable working conditions, the contents of the labor contract are to be based on the working conditions provided by such rules of employment; provided, however, that this does not apply to any portion of the labor contract in which the Worker and the Employer have agreed on working conditions that are different from the contents of the rules of employment, except in cases that fall under Article 12. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-7/par-1: 第十二条 → 労働契約法 第十二条 (Article 12), art-12 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/art-12 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働契約法 第十三条第一項（法令及び労働協約と就業規則との関係） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/art-13/par-1 - 労働契約法 第二十条第二項（船員に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-contracts-act/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000128/art-20/par-2 --- ## 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