# 労働基準法 / Labor Standards Act — 第三十四条 (Article 34) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-34. 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: 第三十四条 (Article 34)（休憩） — address `art-34` - Text in force since: 2026-07-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-34 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-34 - 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. --- ### 第三十四条（休憩） — (Breaks) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-34 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-34 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-34 **第一項** 使用者は、労働時間が六時間を超える場合においては少くとも四十五分、八時間を超える場合においては少くとも一時間の休憩時間を労働時間の途中に与えなければならない。 art-34/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-34/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-34/par-1 An employer must provide a worker with at least 45 minutes of break time during working hours if working hours exceed 6 hours, and at least one hour of break time during working hours if working hours exceed 8 hours. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の休憩時間は、一斉に与えなければならない。ただし、当該事業場に、労働者の過半数で組織する労働組合がある場合においてはその労働組合、労働者の過半数で組織する労働組合がない場合においては労働者の過半数を代表する者との書面による協定があるときは、この限りでない。 art-34/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-34/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-34/par-2 An employer must provide all workers with the break time referred to in the preceding paragraph at the same time; provided, however, that this does not apply if the employer has concluded a written agreement with the labor union that is organized by a majority of the workers at that workplace, if there is one, or with a person representing a majority of the workers at that workplace, if there is no such union. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System changed by another Act: Article 58, paragraph (4) of the Local Public Service Act (地方公務員法) lets breaks of local public employees in the regular service (一般職) be given at different times where a local ordinance (条例) specially provides, in place of the written agreement with the majority union or majority representative. That Act is not in this collection, so nothing of it beyond this note is given — https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/325AC0000000261 (note: editorial:outside-changes-2026-10-07) changed by another Act: Supplementary Provisions, paragraph (5) of the Local Public Enterprise Labor Relationships Act (地方公営企業等の労働関係に関する法律) applies correspondingly, until a separate Act is made, to local public employees in the regular service hired for manual work (単純労務職員) the Local Public Enterprise Act's rule taking enterprise employees out of the Local Public Service Act provision that rewrites this rule, so it applies to them as written. That Act is not in this collection, so nothing of it beyond this note is given — https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/327AC0000000289 (note: editorial:outside-changes-2026-10-07) changed by another Act: Article 39, paragraph (1) of the Local Public Enterprise Act (地方公営企業法) takes employees of local public enterprises (企業職員) out of the Local Public Service Act provision that rewrites this rule for local public employees, so it applies to them as written. That Act is not in this collection, so nothing of it beyond this note is given — https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/327AC0000000292 (note: editorial:outside-changes-2026-10-07) changed by another Act: Article 53, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Local Independent Administrative Agency Act (地方独立行政法人法) takes the staff of specified local incorporated administrative agencies (特定地方独立行政法人) out of the Local Public Service Act provision that rewrites this rule for local public employees, so it applies to them as written. That Act is not in this collection, so nothing of it beyond this note is given — https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000118 (note: editorial:outside-changes-2026-10-07) **第三項** 使用者は、第一項の休憩時間を自由に利用させなければならない。 art-34/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-34/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-34/par-3 An employer must permit a worker to use the break time referred to in paragraph (1) freely. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-34/par-2: 前項 → 労働基準法 第三十四条第一項 (Article 34, paragraph (1)), art-34/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-34/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-34/par-1 - art-34/par-3: 第一項 → 労働基準法 第三十四条第一項 (Article 34, paragraph (1)), art-34/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-34/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-34/par-1 ## Cited by 16 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働基準法 第三十四条第二項（休憩） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-34/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-34/par-2 - 労働基準法 第三十四条第三項（休憩） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-34/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-34/par-3 - 労働基準法 第三十八条第二項（時間計算） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-38/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-38/par-2 - 労働基準法 第三十八条の四第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-38-4/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-38-4/par-5 - 労働基準法 第四十条第一項（労働時間及び休憩の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-40/par-1 - 労働基準法 第六十七条第一項（育児時間） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-67/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-67/par-1 - 労働基準法 第百六条第一項（法令等の周知義務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-106/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-106/par-1 - 労働基準法 第百十九条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-119/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-119/par-1/item-1 - 労働基準法施行規則 第六条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-6-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-6-2/par-1 - 労働基準法施行規則 第十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-15/par-1 - 労働基準法施行規則 第三十一条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-31/par-1 - 労働基準法施行規則 第三十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-32/par-1 - 労働基準法施行規則 第三十二条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-32/par-2 - 労働基準法施行規則 第三十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-33/par-1 - 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 第四十四条第二項（労働基準法の適用に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/worker-dispatch-act/art-44/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/360AC0000000088/art-44/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 第四十四条第三項（労働基準法の適用に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/worker-dispatch-act/art-44/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/360AC0000000088/art-44/par-3 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Notes on what a provision of an Act outside this collection states, written for this site, written 2026-10-07 - 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 213 — 労働基準法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-27