# 労働基準法 / Labor Standards Act — 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/suppl-3601-45/art-20. 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: 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20)（検討） — address `suppl-3601-45/art-20` - Text in force since: 2026-07-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/suppl-3601-45/art-20 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-3601-45/art-20 - 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. --- ### 第二十条（検討） — Review caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3601-45/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/suppl-3601-45/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-3601-45/art-20 **第一項** 政府は、この法律の施行後適当な時期において、第一条の規定による改正後の雇用の分野における男女の均等な機会及び待遇の確保等女子労働者の福祉の増進に関する法律及び第二条の規定による改正後の労働基準法第六章の二の規定の施行状況を勘案し、必要があると認めるときは、これらの法律の規定について検討を加え、その結果に基づいて必要な措置を講ずるものとする。 suppl-3601-45/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/suppl-3601-45/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-3601-45/art-20/par-1 At an appropriate time after this Act comes into effect, the government is to take into consideration the status of enforcement of the Act on Securing, Etc. of Equal Opportunity and Treatment between Men and Women in Employment and Promotion of the Welfare of Female Workers as amended by Article 1 and of the provisions of Chapter VI-2 of the Labor Standards Act as amended by Article 2, and, when it finds it necessary, is to review the provisions of these Acts and take necessary measures based on the results of that review. machine translation, not official --- ## 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-004, 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