# 労働基準法 / Labor Standards Act — 第三十五条 (Article 35) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-35. 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: 第三十五条 (Article 35)（休日） — address `art-35` - Text in force since: 2026-07-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-35 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-35 - 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. --- ### 第三十五条（休日） — (Days Off) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-35 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-35 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-35 **第一項** 使用者は、労働者に対して、毎週少くとも一回の休日を与えなければならない。 art-35/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-35/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-35/par-1 An employer must provide a worker with at least one day off per week. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、四週間を通じ四日以上の休日を与える使用者については適用しない。 art-35/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-35/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-35/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply to an employer that provides a worker with 4 days off or more over the course of a four-week period. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-35/par-2: 前項 → 労働基準法 第三十五条第一項 (Article 35, paragraph (1)), art-35/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-35/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-35/par-1 ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働基準法 第三十三条第一項（災害等による臨時の必要がある場合の時間外労働等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-33/par-1 - 労働基準法 第三十三条第三項（災害等による臨時の必要がある場合の時間外労働等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-33/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-33/par-3 - 労働基準法 第三十五条第二項（休日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-35/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-35/par-2 - 労働基準法 第三十六条第一項（時間外及び休日の労働） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-36/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 第十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-12/par-1 - 労働基準法施行規則 第十二条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-12-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-12-2/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 - 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