# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第三十四条の二の五 (Article 34-2-5)

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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: 第三十四条の二の五 (Article 34-2-5) — address `art-34-2-5`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
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### 第三十四条の二の五
<sup>art-34-2-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-34-2-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-34-2-5</sup>

**第一項**  法第七十一条の規定による許可を受けた使用者が行う職業訓練を受ける労働者（以下「訓練生」という。）に係る労働契約の期間は、当該訓練生が受ける職業訓練の訓練課程に応じ職業能力開発促進法施行規則（昭和四十四年労働省令第二十四号）第十条第一項第四号、第十二条第一項第四号又は第十四条第一項第四号の訓練期間（同規則第二十一条又は職業訓練法施行規則の一部を改正する省令（昭和五十三年労働省令第三十七号。以下「昭和五十三年改正訓練規則」という。）附則第二条第二項の規定により訓練期間を短縮する場合においてはその短縮した期間を控除した期間とする。）の範囲内で定めることができる。この場合、当該事業場において定められた訓練期間を超えてはならない。
<sup>art-34-2-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-34-2-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-34-2-5/par-1</sup>
The period of a labor contract with a worker who receives vocational training (hereinafter referred to as "trainee") from an employer who has obtained the permission pursuant to the provisions of Article 71 of the Act may be set according to the training course of the vocational training the trainee receives within the period prescribed by item (iv) of paragraph (1) of Article 10, item (iv) of paragraph (1) of Article 12 or item (iv) of paragraph (1) of Article 14 of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Vocational Abilities Development Promotion Act (Ministry of Labour Order No. 24 of 1969) (in the case where the training period is reduced under the provisions of Article 21 of the same Ordinance or paragraph (2) of Article 2 of the supplementary provisions of the Ministerial Order Partially Amending the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Vocational Training Act (Ministry of Labour Order No. 37 of 1978; hereinafter referred to as the "1978 Amended Training Rules"), the reduced period shall be deducted). In this case, the training period prescribed by the workplace shall not be exceeded.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-34-2-5/par-1: 法第七十一条 → 労働基準法 第七十一条 (Article 71), art-71 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-71 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-71

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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-5-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance-20260923T054406-001, translated 2026-09-23
- 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
