# 労働基準法 / Labor Standards Act — 第百五条の二 (Article 105-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-105-2. 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 (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: 第百五条の二 (Article 105-2)（国の援助義務） — address `art-105-2` - Text in force since: 2026-07-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-105-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-105-2 - 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. --- ### 第百五条の二（国の援助義務） — (The State's Duty to Provide Assistance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-105-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-105-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-105-2 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣又は都道府県労働局長は、この法律の目的を達成するために、労働者及び使用者に対して資料の提供その他必要な援助をしなければならない。 art-105-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-105-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-105-2/par-1 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare and the directors of the prefectural labor bureaus must provide workers and employers with materials and other necessary assistance to achieve the purpose of this Act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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