# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第二十四条の四 (Article 24-4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-24-4. 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: 第二十四条の四 (Article 24-4) — address `art-24-4` - 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-24-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-24-4 - 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. --- ### 第二十四条の四 art-24-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-24-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-24-4 **第一項** 法第三十九条第四項第三号の厚生労働省令で定める事項は、次に掲げるものとする。 art-24-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-24-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-24-4/par-1 Matters prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under item (iii) of paragraph (4) of Article 39 of the Act shall be as follows: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 時間を単位として与えることができることとされる有給休暇一日の時間数（一日の所定労働時間数（日によつて所定労働時間数が異なる場合には、一年間における一日平均所定労働時間数。次号において同じ。）を下回らないものとする。） art-24-4/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-24-4/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-24-4/par-1/item-1 Number of hours of paid leave that can be given in the unit of hours (It shall not be lower than the number of prescribed working hours per day, or the number of the average prescribed daily working hours for a year if the number of prescribed working hours varies daily; the same shall apply in the following item.) Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 一時間以外の時間を単位として有給休暇を与えることとする場合には、その時間数（一日の所定労働時間数に満たないものとする。） art-24-4/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-24-4/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-24-4/par-1/item-2 Number of hours when paid leave is given in any unit other than one hour (It shall be lower than the number of prescribed working hours per day.) Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-24-4/par-1: 法第三十九条第四項第三号 → 労働基準法 第三十九条第四項第三号 (Article 39, paragraph (4), item (iii)), art-39/par-4/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-39/par-4/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-39/par-4/item-3 - art-24-4/par-1/item-1: 次号 → 労働基準法施行規則 第二十四条の四第一項第二号 (Article 24-4, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-24-4/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-24-4/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-24-4/par-1/item-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働基準法施行規則 第二十四条の四第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-24-4/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-24-4/par-1/item-1 --- ## 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