# 労働基準法 / Labor Standards Act — 第百条 (Article 100) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-100. 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 (Labor Standards Act), 昭和二十二年法律第四十九号 - English title "Labor Standards Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — 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: 第百条 (Article 100)（女性主管局長の権限） — address `art-100` - Text in force since: 2026-07-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-100 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-100 - 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. 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. --- ### 第百条（女性主管局長の権限） — (Authority of the Director-General of the Women's Management Bureau) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-100 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-100 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-100 **第一項** 厚生労働省の女性主管局長（厚生労働省の内部部局として置かれる局で女性労働者の特性に係る労働問題に関する事務を所掌するものの局長をいう。以下同じ。）は、厚生労働大臣の指揮監督を受けて、この法律中女性に特殊の規定の制定、改廃及び解釈に関する事項をつかさどり、その施行に関する事項については、労働基準主管局長及びその下級の官庁の長に勧告を行うとともに、労働基準主管局長が、その下級の官庁に対して行う指揮監督について援助を与える。 art-100/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-100/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-100/par-1 The Director-General of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's Women's Management Bureau (meaning the director of an internal bureau established within the ministry that is responsible for affairs regarding labor issues associated with the unique characteristics of female workers; the same applies below), under the direction and supervision of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, administers particulars relating to the establishment, amendment, repeal and interpretation of special provisions in this Act relating to women, and advises the Director-General of the Labor Standards Management Bureau, and the directors of the government agencies subordinate to that Bureau, and assists in the direction and supervision of those subordinate government agencies by the Director-General of the Labor Standards Management Bureau, in connection with particulars concerning the enforcement of those provisions. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 女性主管局長は、自ら又はその指定する所属官吏をして、女性に関し労働基準主管局若しくはその下級の官庁又はその所属官吏の行つた監督その他に関する文書を閲覧し、又は閲覧せしめることができる。 art-100/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-100/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-100/par-2 The Director-General of the Women's Management Bureau may view documents related to inspections and other things that the Labor Standards Management Bureau, the government agencies subordinate to that Bureau, or officials of those agencies have undertaken, in particulars relating to women, by themselves; or may have the Women's Management Bureau's officials designated by the Director-General view those documents. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第百一条及び第百五条の規定は、女性主管局長又はその指定する所属官吏が、この法律中女性に特殊の規定の施行に関して行う調査の場合に、これを準用する。 art-100/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-100/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-100/par-3 The provisions of Articles 101 and 105 apply mutatis mutandis to investigations that the Director-General of the Women's Management Bureau or the designated officials under their jurisdiction, carry out in connection with the enforcement of special provisions of this Act relating to women. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-100/par-3: 第百一条 → 労働基準法 第百一条 (Article 101), art-101 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-101 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-101 - art-100/par-3: 第百五条 → 労働基準法 第百五条 (Article 105), art-105 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-105 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-105 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働基準法 第百二十条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-120/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-120/par-1/item-1 - 労働基準法 第百二十条第一項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-120/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-120/par-1/item-4 - 労働者派遣事業の適正な運営の確保及び派遣労働者の保護等に関する法律 第四十四条第五項（労働基準法の適用に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/worker-dispatch-act/art-44/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/360AC0000000088/art-44/par-5 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 労働基準法 — the text in force from 2026-07-17 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000049/20260717_508AC0000000060), retrieved 2026-09-27 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Labor Standards Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4913/tb), retrieved 2026-09-27 - This site's parser, version 224 — 労働基準法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-27