# 労働基準法 / Labor Standards Act — 第七十六条 (Article 76) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-76. 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: 第七十六条 (Article 76)（休業補償） — address `art-76` - Text in force since: 2026-07-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-76 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-76 - 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. --- ### 第七十六条（休業補償） — (Compensation for Absence from Work) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-76 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-76 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-76 **第一項** 労働者が前条の規定による療養のため、労働することができないために賃金を受けない場合においては、使用者は、労働者の療養中平均賃金の百分の六十の休業補償を行わなければならない。 art-76/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-76/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-76/par-1 If a worker does not receive wages because the worker is unable to work due to medical treatment under the provisions of the preceding Article, the employer must pay compensation for that absence from work at the rate of 60 percent of the worker's average wage, while they are under treatment. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 使用者は、前項の規定により休業補償を行つている労働者と同一の事業場における同種の労働者に対して所定労働時間労働した場合に支払われる通常の賃金の、一月から三月まで、四月から六月まで、七月から九月まで及び十月から十二月までの各区分による期間（以下四半期という。）ごとの一箇月一人当り平均額（常時百人未満の労働者を使用する事業場については、厚生労働省において作成する毎月勤労統計における当該事業場の属する産業に係る毎月きまつて支給する給与の四半期の労働者一人当りの一箇月平均額。以下平均給与額という。）が、当該労働者が業務上負傷し、又は疾病にかかつた日の属する四半期における平均給与額の百分の百二十をこえ、又は百分の八十を下るに至つた場合においては、使用者は、その上昇し又は低下した比率に応じて、その上昇し又は低下するに至つた四半期の次の次の四半期において、前項の規定により当該労働者に対して行つている休業補償の額を改訂し、その改訂をした四半期に属する最初の月から改訂された額により休業補償を行わなければならない。改訂後の休業補償の額の改訂についてもこれに準ずる。 art-76/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-76/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-76/par-2 If the per capita average monthly amount of ordinary wages in each of the periods of January through March, April through June, July through September, and October through December (any such period is referred to below as a "quarter") that would be paid to workers at the same workplace who are engaged in the same type of work as the worker receiving compensation for an absence from work pursuant to the preceding paragraph if they worked the prescribed working hours (or, for a workplace where less than 100 workers are ordinarily employed, that quarter's average monthly amount, per worker, for salaries paid on a monthly basis in the industry to which that workplace belongs, as provided in the Monthly Labor Survey compiled by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; whichever amount applies is referred to below as the average salary) exceeds 120 percent of the average salary during the quarter, that includes the day on which the worker in question sustained an injury or contracted an illness at work, or falls below 80 percent of that amount, the employer must revise the amount of compensation for absence from work which is payable to the worker in question pursuant to the preceding paragraph, in accordance with that rate of increase or decrease two quarters after the quarter in which the increase or decrease occurred; and the employer must provide the revised amount of compensation for absence from work from the first month of the quarter, that includes the day on which it makes that revision; the same applies to revisions to a previously revised amount of compensation for an absence from work. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前項の規定により難い場合における改訂の方法その他同項の規定による改訂について必要な事項は、厚生労働省令で定める。 art-76/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-76/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-76/par-3 Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribes the means of making revisions when it is difficult to do so, pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and provides for other necessary particulars regarding revisions under the provisions of that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-76/par-1: 前条 → 労働基準法 第七十五条 (Article 75), art-75 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-75 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-75 - art-76/par-2: 前項 → 労働基準法 第七十六条第一項 (Article 76, paragraph (1)), art-76/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-76/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-76/par-1 - art-76/par-3: 前項 → 労働基準法 第七十六条第二項 (Article 76, paragraph (2)), art-76/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-76/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-76/par-2 ## Cited by 13 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働基準法 第七十六条第二項（休業補償） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-76/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-76/par-2 - 労働基準法 第七十六条第三項（休業補償） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-76/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-76/par-3 - 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 附則第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/suppl-3271-287/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-3271-287/par-4 - 労働基準法 附則第二十条第一項（労働基準法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/suppl-3401-130/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-3401-130/art-20/par-1 - 労働基準法施行規則 第三十八条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-38-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-38-2/par-1 - 労働基準法施行規則 第三十八条の三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-38-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-38-3/par-1 - 労働基準法施行規則 第三十八条の五第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-38-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-38-5/par-1 - 労働基準法施行規則 第三十八条の六第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-38-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-38-6/par-1 - 労働者災害補償保険法 第十二条の八第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-12-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-12-8/par-2 - 労働者災害補償保険法 第三十四条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-34/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-34/par-1/item-2 - 労働者災害補償保険法 附則第四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-accident-insurance-act/suppl-4021-40/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/suppl-4021-40/art-4/par-1 - 雇用保険法 第三十七条第八項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-37/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-37/par-8 --- ## 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