# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第十五条 (Article 15) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-15. 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: 労働基準法施行規則 (Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act), 昭和二十二年厚生省令第二十三号 - English title "Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: MinisterialOrdinance — 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: 第十五条 (Article 15) — address `art-15` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-15 - e-Gov law ID: 322M40000100023 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL 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. --- ### 第十五条 art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-15 **第一項** 使用者は、法第三十四条第二項ただし書の協定をする場合には、一斉に休憩を与えない労働者の範囲及び当該労働者に対する休憩の与え方について、協定しなければならない。 art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-15/par-1 When an employer makes an agreement under the proviso of paragraph (2) of Article 34 of the Act, the employer shall agree on the scope of workers whom the employer do not provide simultaneous rest periods and to the method of providing rest periods to the said workers. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、労使委員会の決議及び労働時間等設定改善委員会の決議について準用する。 art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-15/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph shall apply mutatis mutandis to a resolution of a labor-management committee or resolution of a committee on the improvement of working time arrangements Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-15/par-1: 法第三十四条第二項 → 労働基準法 第三十四条第二項 (Article 34, paragraph (2)), art-34/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-34/par-2 (e-Gov law ID 322AC0000000049) - art-15/par-2: 前項 → 労働基準法施行規則 第十五条第一項 (Article 15, paragraph (1)), art-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-15/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働基準法施行規則 第十五条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-15/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 労働基準法施行規則 — the text in force from 2026-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322M40000100023/20260401_508M60000100057), retrieved 2026-09-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2605/tb), retrieved 2026-09-10 - This site's parser, version 222 — 労働基準法施行規則 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-10