# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第三十七条の二 (Article 37-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-37-2. 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: 第三十七条の二 (Article 37-2) — address `art-37-2` - 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-37-2 - e-Gov law ID: 322M40000100023 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三十七条の二 art-37-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-37-2 **第一項** 使用者は、労働者が次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合においては、休業補償を行わなくてもよい。 art-37-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-37-2/par-1 If a worker falls under any of the following items, this worker's employer may make no compensation for absence from work: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 拘禁刑若しくは拘留の刑の執行のため若しくは死刑の言渡しを受けて刑事施設（少年法（昭和二十三年法律第百六十八号）第五十六条第三項の規定により少年院において刑を執行する場合における当該少年院を含む。）に拘置されている場合若しくは留置施設に留置されて拘禁刑若しくは拘留の刑の執行を受けている場合、労役場留置の言渡しを受けて労役場に留置されている場合又は監置の裁判の執行のため監置場に留置されている場合 art-37-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-37-2/par-1/item-1 In the case of being detained in a penal institution (including, in the case where a sentence is executed in a juvenile training school pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) of Article 56 of the Juveniles Act (Act No. 168 of 1948), that juvenile training school) for the execution of a sentence of imprisonment or penal detention or upon being sentenced to death, or of being detained in a detention facility and undergoing the execution of a sentence of imprisonment or penal detention, in the case of being detained in a workhouse upon being ordered to be detained in a workhouse, or in the case of being detained in a confinement facility for the execution of a judicial decision of confinement machine translation, not official **二** 少年法第二十四条の規定による保護処分として少年院若しくは児童自立支援施設に送致され、収容されている場合、同法第六十四条の規定による保護処分として少年院に送致され、収容されている場合又は同法第六十六条の規定による決定により少年院に収容されている場合 art-37-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-37-2/par-1/item-2 In the case of having been committed to and being accommodated in a juvenile training school or a children's self-reliance support facility as a protective disposition under the provisions of Article 24 of the Juveniles Act, in the case of having been committed to and being accommodated in a juvenile training school as a protective disposition under the provisions of Article 64 of that Act, or in the case of being accommodated in a juvenile training school pursuant to a ruling under the provisions of Article 66 of that Act machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-37-2/par-1/item-1: 少年法（昭和二十三年法律第百六十八号）第五十六条第三項 → 少年法 第五十六条第三項 (Article 56, paragraph (3)), art-56/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-56/par-3 (e-Gov law ID 323AC0000000168) - art-37-2/par-1/item-2: 少年法第二十四条 → 少年法 第二十四条 (Article 24), art-24 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-24 (e-Gov law ID 323AC0000000168) - art-37-2/par-1/item-2: 同法第六十四条 → 少年法 第六十四条 (Article 64), art-64 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-64 (e-Gov law ID 323AC0000000168) - art-37-2/par-1/item-2: 同法第六十六条 → 少年法 第六十六条 (Article 66), art-66 — https://japanlaw.org/en/juvenile-act/art-66 (e-Gov law ID 323AC0000000168) ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働基準法施行規則 附則第五条第一項（労働基準法施行規則の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-3629-11/art-5/par-1 - 労働基準法施行規則 附則第二条第一項第三号（経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-5079-62/art-2/par-1/item-3 --- ## 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-006, translated 2026-09-11 - claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance-007, translated 2026-09-11 - 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