# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第三十二条 (Article 32) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-32. 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: 第三十二条 (Article 32) — address `art-32` - 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-32 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-32 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三十二条 art-32 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-32 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-32 **第一項** 使用者は、法別表第一第四号に掲げる事業又は郵便若しくは信書便の事業に使用される労働者のうち列車、気動車、電車、自動車、船舶又は航空機に乗務する機関手、運転手、操縦士、車掌、列車掛、荷扱手、列車手、給仕、暖冷房乗務員及び電源乗務員（以下単に「乗務員」という。）で長距離にわたり継続して乗務するもの並びに同表第十一号に掲げる事業に使用される労働者で屋内勤務者三十人未満の日本郵便株式会社の営業所（簡易郵便局法（昭和二十四年法律第二百十三号）第二条に規定する郵便窓口業務を行うものに限る。）において郵便の業務に従事するものについては、法第三十四条の規定にかかわらず、休憩時間を与えないことができる。 art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-32/par-1 With regard to those engineers, drivers, pilots, conductors, train masters, baggage men, trainmen, stewards, air conditioning engineers and power supply officers of a train, diesel railcar, electric railcar, automobile, ship or aircraft (hereinafter referred to as "crew members") who continuously work on board over a long distance among workers employed for the businesses designated in item (iv) of appended table 1 of the Act or for the postal or mail delivery businesses, and workers employed for the businesses designated in item (xi) of the same table who are engaged in postal business at business offices of Japan Post Co., Ltd. having less than 30 indoor workers (limited to business offices which provide postal counter service prescribed in Article 2 of the Post Office Branch Act (Act No. 213 of 1949)), an employer may give them no rest periods notwithstanding the provisions of Article 34 of the Act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 使用者は、乗務員で前項の規定に該当しないものについては、その者の従事する業務の性質上、休憩時間を与えることができないと認められる場合において、その勤務中における停車時間、折返しによる待合せ時間その他の時間の合計が法第三十四条第一項に規定する休憩時間に相当するときは、同条の規定にかかわらず、休憩時間を与えないことができる。 art-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-32/par-2 With regard to those crew members who do not fall under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, an employer may give them no rest periods when it is found impossible to give them rest periods because of the nature of the work in which they are engaged, if the total of stoppage time, waiting time for turning back and other time while on duty is equal to the rest period prescribed in paragraph (1) of Article 34 of the Act, notwithstanding the provisions of the same Article. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-32/par-1: 法別表第一第四号 → 労働基準法 別表第一第四号 (Appended Table 1, item (iv)), appdx-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/appdx-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/appdx-1/item-4 - art-32/par-1: 同表第十一号 → 労働基準法 別表第一第十一号 (Appended Table 1, item (xi)), appdx-1/item-11 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/appdx-1/item-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/appdx-1/item-11 - art-32/par-1: 簡易郵便局法（昭和二十四年法律第二百十三号）第二条 → e-Gov law 324AC0000000213, 第二条 (Article 2), art-2 — not held in this collection - art-32/par-1: 法第三十四条 → 労働基準法 第三十四条 (Article 34), art-34 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-34 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-34 - art-32/par-2: 前項 → 労働基準法施行規則 第三十二条第一項 (Article 32, paragraph (1)), art-32/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-32/par-1 - art-32/par-2: 法第三十四条第一項 → 労働基準法 第三十四条第一項 (Article 34, paragraph (1)), art-34/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-34/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-34/par-1 - art-32/par-2: 同条 → 労働基準法 第三十四条 (Article 34), art-34 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-34 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-34 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働基準法施行規則 第三十二条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-32/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