# 労働基準法 / Labor Standards Act — 第百十八条 (Article 118) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-118. 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: 第百十八条 (Article 118) — address `art-118` - Text in force since: 2026-07-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-118 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-118 - 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). 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百十八条 art-118 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-118 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-118 **第一項** 第六条、第五十六条、第六十三条又は第六十四条の二の規定に違反した者は、一年以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-118/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-118/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-118/par-1 A person who violates the provisions of Article 6, Article 56, Article 63 or Article 64-2 is punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than 500,000 yen. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第七十条の規定に基づいて発する厚生労働省令（第六十三条又は第六十四条の二の規定に係る部分に限る。）に違反した者についても前項の例による。 art-118/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-118/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-118/par-2 A person who violates an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare issued based on the provisions of Article 70 (limited to those parts of that Order relating to Article 63 or Article 64-2) is also governed by the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-118/par-1: 第六条 → 労働基準法 第六条 (Article 6), art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-6 - art-118/par-1: 第五十六条 → 労働基準法 第五十六条 (Article 56), art-56 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-56 - art-118/par-1: 第六十三条 → 労働基準法 第六十三条 (Article 63), art-63 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-63 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-63 - art-118/par-1: 第六十四条の二 → 労働基準法 第六十四条の二 (Article 64-2), art-64-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-64-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-64-2 - art-118/par-2: 第七十条 → 労働基準法 第七十条 (Article 70), art-70 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-70 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-70 - art-118/par-2: 第六十三条 → 労働基準法 第六十三条 (Article 63), art-63 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-63 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-63 - art-118/par-2: 第六十四条の二 → 労働基準法 第六十四条の二 (Article 64-2), art-64-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-64-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-64-2 - art-118/par-2: 前項 → 労働基準法 第百十八条第一項 (Article 118, paragraph (1)), art-118/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-118/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-118/par-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行令 第五条第一項第一号（法第十九条の二十六第一項第二号の出入国又は労働に関する法律の規定であって政令で定めるもの） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act-enforcement-order/art-5/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/410CO0000000178/art-5/par-1/item-1 - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行令 第五条第一項第十四号（法第十九条の二十六第一項第二号の出入国又は労働に関する法律の規定であって政令で定めるもの） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-control-act-enforcement-order/art-5/par-1/item-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/410CO0000000178/art-5/par-1/item-14 - 労働基準法 第百十六条第一項（適用除外） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-116/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-116/par-1 - 労働基準法 第百十八条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-118/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-118/par-2 - 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 第四十四条第四項（労働基準法の適用に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/worker-dispatch-act/art-44/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/360AC0000000088/art-44/par-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 - claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch labor-standards-act-001, translated 2026-09-11 - This site's parser, version 224 — 労働基準法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-27