# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第三十八条の四 (Article 38-4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-38-4. 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: 第三十八条の四 (Article 38-4) — address `art-38-4` - 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-38-4 - 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. --- ### 第三十八条の四 art-38-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-38-4 **第一項** 常時百人以上の労働者を使用する事業場において業務上負傷し、又は疾病にかかつた労働者と同一職種の同一条件の労働者がいない場合における当該労働者の休業補償の額の改訂は、当該事業場の全労働者に対して所定労働時間労働した場合に支払われる通常の賃金の四半期ごとの平均給与額が上昇し又は低下した場合に行うものとする。 art-38-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-38-4/par-1 If there exists no worker whose work and working conditions are the same as those of a worker who suffers an injured or illness in the course of employment in a workplace which usually employs 100 workers or more, the amount of the compensation for absence from work paid to the worker shall be adjusted when the quarterly average of the ordinary wages paid to all the workers in said workplace for the prescribed working hours is increased or decreased. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働基準法施行規則 第三十八条の十第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-38-10/par-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