# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第四十九条 (Article 49) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-49. 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: 中小企業退職金共済法 (Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act), 昭和三十四年法律第百六十号 - English title "Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title - 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: 第四十九条 (Article 49)（従業員に対する告知等） — address `art-49` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-49 - e-Gov law ID: 334AC0000000160 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL 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. --- ### 第四十九条（従業員に対する告知等） — Notice to Employees, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-49 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-49 **第一項** 共済契約者は、新たに従業員を雇用するに当たつては、その者に対し、その者が被共済者となるかどうかを告知しなければならない。 art-49/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-49/par-1 When newly employing an employee, a mutual aid policyholder must notify that person whether that person is to become a covered employee. machine translation, not official **第二項** 事業主は、共済契約者でなくなつたときは、遅滞なく、その旨を、各作業場の見やすい場所に掲示する等の方法により被共済者でなくなつた者に周知させなければならない。その現に雇用する被共済者である従業員の全部又は一部が、第四十一条第三項又は第六項の規定により被共済者でなくなつたときも、同様とする。 art-49/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-49/par-2 When an employer ceases to be a mutual aid policyholder, it must without delay make that fact known to the persons who have ceased to be covered employees by a method such as posting a notice in a conspicuous place at each workplace. The same applies when all or some of the employees who are covered employees whom the employer currently employs have ceased to be covered employees under Article 41, paragraph (3) or (6). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-49/par-2: 第四十一条第三項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第四十一条第三項 (Article 41, paragraph (3)), art-41/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-41/par-3 - art-49/par-2: 第六項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第四十一条第六項 (Article 41, paragraph (6)), art-41/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-41/par-6 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業退職金共済法 第八十九条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-89/par-1/item-1 - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第八条第一項（名称の使用制限等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4091-68/art-8/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 中小企業退職金共済法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/334AC0000000160/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-11-06 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 中小企業退職金共済法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/1775), retrieved 2026-09-23 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch sme-retirement-allowance-act-20261106T173426-010, translated 2026-11-07 - This site's parser, version 225 — 中小企業退職金共済法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06