# 労働基準法 / Labor Standards Act — 第七十八条 (Article 78) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-78. 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: 第七十八条 (Article 78)（休業補償及び障害補償の例外） — address `art-78` - Text in force since: 2026-07-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-78 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-78 - 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. --- ### 第七十八条（休業補償及び障害補償の例外） — (Exceptions to Compensation for Absence from Work and to Compensation for Disabilities) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-78 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-78 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-78 **第一項** 労働者が重大な過失によつて業務上負傷し、又は疾病にかかり、且つ使用者がその過失について行政官庁の認定を受けた場合においては、休業補償又は障害補償を行わなくてもよい。 art-78/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-78/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-78/par-1 If a worker sustains an injury or contracts an illness at work due to gross negligence on their part, and the employer has had that negligence acknowledged by the relevant government agency, the employer is not obligated to pay compensation to that worker for any absence from work or any resulting disabilities. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働基準法施行規則 第四十一条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-41/par-1 --- ## 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