# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第十九条の二 (Article 19-2)

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- 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: 第十九条の二 (Article 19-2) — address `art-19-2`
- 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-19-2
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### 第十九条の二
<sup>art-19-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-19-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-19-2</sup>

**第一項**  使用者は、法第三十七条第三項の協定（労使委員会の決議、労働時間等設定改善委員会の決議及び労働時間等設定改善法第七条の二に規定する労働時間等設定改善企業委員会の決議を含む。）をする場合には、次に掲げる事項について、協定しなければならない。
<sup>art-19-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-19-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-19-2/par-1</sup>
In the case where an employer concludes an agreement under Article 37, paragraph (3) of the Act (including a resolution by a labor-management committee, a resolution by the committee on the improvement of working time arrangements and a resolution by an enterprise committee on the improvement of working time arrangements prescribed in Article 7-2 of the Improvement of Working Time Arrangements Act), the employer must reach agreement on the following matters.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**一**  法第三十七条第三項の休暇（以下「代替休暇」という。）として与えることができる時間の時間数の算定方法
<sup>art-19-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-19-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-19-2/par-1/item-1</sup>
Method of calculating the number of hours to be given as leave set forth in paragraph (3) of Article 37 of the Act (hereinafter referred to as "substitute leave")
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

**二**  代替休暇の単位（一日又は半日（代替休暇以外の通常の労働時間の賃金が支払われる休暇と合わせて与えることができる旨を定めた場合においては、当該休暇と合わせた一日又は半日を含む。）とする。）
<sup>art-19-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-19-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-19-2/par-1/item-2</sup>
Unit of substitute leave (The unit shall be a day or half day; if substitute leave can be given together with any other leave with the payment of wages for ordinary working hours, the unit of a day or half day shall include such leave)
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

**三**  代替休暇を与えることができる期間（法第三十三条又は法第三十六条第一項の規定によつて延長して労働させた時間が一箇月について六十時間を超えた当該一箇月の末日の翌日から二箇月以内とする。）
<sup>art-19-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-19-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-19-2/par-1/item-3</sup>
The period where substitute leave can be given (within two months from the day following the last day of the month in which the working hours extended under Article 33 or paragraph (1) of Article 36 of the Act exceed 60 hours of that month)
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

**第二項**  前項第一号の算定方法は、法第三十三条又は法第三十六条第一項の規定によつて一箇月について六十時間を超えて延長して労働させた時間の時間数に、労働者が代替休暇を取得しなかつた場合に当該時間の労働について法第三十七条第一項ただし書の規定により支払うこととされている割増賃金の率と、労働者が代替休暇を取得した場合に当該時間の労働について同項本文の規定により支払うこととされている割増賃金の率との差に相当する率（次項において「換算率」という。）を乗じるものとする。
<sup>art-19-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-19-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-19-2/par-2</sup>
The calculation of the number of hours in item (i) of the preceding paragraph shall be made by multiplying the number of working hours extended beyond 60 hours per month in accordance with Article 33 or paragraph (1) of Article 36 of the Act by the difference between the rate of premium wages payable for such extended working hours under the proviso of paragraph (1) of Article 37 of the Act in case the worker does not take substitute leave, and the rate of premium wages payable for the extended working hours under the main clause of the same paragraph in case the worker does take substitute leave (hereinafter referred to as the "conversion rate" in the following paragraph).
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

**第三項**  法第三十七条第三項の厚生労働省令で定める時間は、取得した代替休暇の時間数を換算率で除して得た時間数の時間とする。
<sup>art-19-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-19-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-19-2/par-3</sup>
The number of hours prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare referred in paragraph (3) of Article 37 of the Act shall be obtained by dividing the number of hours of substitute leave by the conversion rate.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-19-2/par-1: 法第三十七条第三項 → 労働基準法 第三十七条第三項 (Article 37, paragraph (3)), art-37/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-37/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-37/par-3
- art-19-2/par-1: 労働時間等設定改善法第七条の二 → e-Gov law 404AC0000000090, 第七条の二 (Article 7-2), art-7-2 — not held in this collection
- art-19-2/par-1/item-1: 法第三十七条第三項 → 労働基準法 第三十七条第三項 (Article 37, paragraph (3)), art-37/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-37/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-37/par-3
- art-19-2/par-1/item-3: 法第三十三条 → 労働基準法 第三十三条 (Article 33), art-33 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-33 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-33
- art-19-2/par-1/item-3: 法第三十六条第一項 → 労働基準法 第三十六条第一項 (Article 36, paragraph (1)), art-36/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-36/par-1
- art-19-2/par-2: 前項第一号 → 労働基準法施行規則 第十九条の二第一項第一号 (Article 19-2, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-19-2/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-19-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-19-2/par-1/item-1
- art-19-2/par-2: 法第三十三条 → 労働基準法 第三十三条 (Article 33), art-33 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-33 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-33
- art-19-2/par-2: 法第三十六条第一項 → 労働基準法 第三十六条第一項 (Article 36, paragraph (1)), art-36/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-36/par-1
- art-19-2/par-2: 法第三十七条第一項 → 労働基準法 第三十七条第一項 (Article 37, paragraph (1)), art-37/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-37/par-1
- art-19-2/par-2: 次項 → 労働基準法施行規則 第十九条の二第三項 (Article 19-2, paragraph (3)), art-19-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-19-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-19-2/par-3
- art-19-2/par-3: 法第三十七条第三項 → 労働基準法 第三十七条第三項 (Article 37, paragraph (3)), art-37/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-37/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-37/par-3

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 労働基準法施行規則 第十九条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-19-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-19-2/par-2
- 労働基準法施行規則 第二十条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-20/par-2

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## 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
- claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance-20260918T121515-001, translated 2026-09-18
- 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
