# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第三十八条の二 (Article 38-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-38-2. 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: 第三十八条の二 (Article 38-2) — address `art-38-2` - 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-38-2 - e-Gov law ID: 322M40000100023 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL 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. --- ### 第三十八条の二 art-38-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-38-2 **第一項** 法第七十六条第二項の常時百人未満の労働者を使用する事業場は、毎年四月一日から翌年三月三十一日までの間においては、当該四月一日前一年間に使用した延労働者数を当該一年間の所定労働日数で除した労働者数が百人未満である事業場とする。 art-38-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-38-2/par-1 In any one-year period from April 1 to March 31,a workplace that usually employs fewer than 100 workers, as referred to in paragraph (2) of Article 76 of the Act is one with fewer than 100workers,ascalculated by dividing the number of workers, in terms of worker-years, during the one year before the relevant April 1 have been employed from April 1 to March 31 each year by the number of the prescribed working days for the year concerned . Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-38-2/par-1: 法第七十六条第二項 → 労働基準法 第七十六条第二項 (Article 76, paragraph (2)), art-76/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-76/par-2 (e-Gov law ID 322AC0000000049) ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働基準法施行規則 附則第四項（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-3439-2/par-4 --- ## 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