# 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 / Act on Childcare Leave, Caregiver Leave, and Other Measures for the Welfare of Workers Caring for Children or Other Family Members — 第十一条 (Article 11) - Law: 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 (Act on Childcare Leave, Caregiver Leave, and Other Measures for the Welfare of Workers Caring for Children or Other Family Members), 平成三年法律第七十六号 - English title "Act on Childcare Leave, Caregiver Leave, and Other Measures for the Welfare of Workers Caring for Children or Other Family Members": 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: 第十一条 (Article 11)（介護休業の申出） — address `art-11` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-11 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-11 - 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. --- ### 第十一条（介護休業の申出） — (Application for Caregiver Leave) caption: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "(Application for Caregiver Leave" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4340/tb art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-11 **第一項** 労働者は、その事業主に申し出ることにより、介護休業をすることができる。ただし、期間を定めて雇用される者にあっては、第三項に規定する介護休業開始予定日から起算して九十三日を経過する日から六月を経過する日までに、その労働契約が満了することが明らかでない者に限り、当該申出をすることができる。 art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-11/par-1 A worker may take caregiver leave upon applying to their employer; provided, however, that a worker employed for a fixed period of time may only file that application in cases where it is not clear that the term of the person's labor contract expires before the day on which six months elapse from the day on which ninety-three days elapse from the scheduled start date for caregiver leave prescribed in paragraph (3). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定にかかわらず、介護休業をしたことがある労働者は、当該介護休業に係る対象家族が次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合には、当該対象家族については、同項の規定による申出をすることができない。 art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-11/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, a worker who has taken caregiver leave may not file an application under the provisions of the preceding paragraph with regard to an applicable family member for whom the worker has already taken caregiver leave in cases where the relevant applicable family member falls under any of the following items: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 当該対象家族について三回の介護休業をした場合 art-11/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-11/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-11/par-2/item-1 with regard to the applicable family member, caregiver leave has been taken three times; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 当該対象家族について介護休業をした日数（介護休業を開始した日から介護休業を終了した日までの日数とし、二回以上の介護休業をした場合にあっては、介護休業ごとに、当該介護休業を開始した日から当該介護休業を終了した日までの日数を合算して得た日数とする。第十五条第一項において「介護休業日数」という。）が九十三日に達している場合 art-11/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-11/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-11/par-2/item-2 with regard to the applicable family member, the total of the number of days on which caregiver leave has been taken (meaning the number of days from the start day until the end day of caregiver leave, and in the case of taking caregiver leave for two or more times, the number of days obtained by addition of the total numbers of days of each caregiver leave from the start day until the end day; referred to in Article 15, paragraph (1) as "number of days for caregiver leave") has reached 93 days. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の規定による申出（以下「介護休業申出」という。）は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、介護休業申出に係る対象家族が要介護状態にあることを明らかにし、かつ、その期間中は当該対象家族に係る介護休業をすることとする一の期間について、その初日（以下「介護休業開始予定日」という。）及び末日（以下「介護休業終了予定日」という。）とする日を明らかにして、しなければならない。 art-11/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-11/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-11/par-3 An application pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) (hereinafter referred to as "application for caregiver leave") must be filed by making clear that the applicable family member in the application for caregiver leave is requiring caregiving and, with regard to a continued period for caregiver leave pertaining to the applicable family member, and the first day thereof (hereinafter referred to as "scheduled start date for caregiver leave") and last day thereof (hereinafter referred to as "scheduled end date for caregiver leave") as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 第一項ただし書及び第二項（第二号を除く。）の規定は、期間を定めて雇用される者であって、その締結する労働契約の期間の末日を介護休業終了予定日（第十三条において準用する第七条第三項の規定により当該介護休業終了予定日が変更された場合にあっては、その変更後の介護休業終了予定日とされた日）とする介護休業をしているものが、当該介護休業に係る対象家族について、当該労働契約の更新に伴い、当該更新後の労働契約の期間の初日を介護休業開始予定日とする介護休業申出をする場合には、これを適用しない。 art-11/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-11/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-11/par-4 The provisions of the proviso of paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) (excluding item (ii)) do not apply to cases where a person employed for a fixed period of time who takes caregiver leave having designated the last day of the person's labor contract period as the scheduled end date for caregiver leave (or, in cases where the caregiver leave scheduled end date is changed pursuant to the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (3), as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 13, the changed scheduled end date for caregiver leave) files an application for caregiver leave, due to the renewal of the labor contract, in which the first day of the renewed labor contract period is the scheduled start date for caregiver leave. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-11/par-1: 第三項 → 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第十一条第三項 (Article 11, paragraph (3)), art-11/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-11/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-11/par-3 - art-11/par-2: 前項 → 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第十一条第一項 (Article 11, paragraph (1)), art-11/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-11/par-1 - art-11/par-2/item-2: 第十五条第一項 → 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第十五条第一項 (Article 15, paragraph (1)), art-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-15/par-1 - art-11/par-3: 第一項 → 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第十一条第一項 (Article 11, paragraph (1)), art-11/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-11/par-1 - art-11/par-4: 第一項 → 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第十一条第一項 (Article 11, paragraph (1)), art-11/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-11/par-1 - art-11/par-4: 第二項 → 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第十一条第二項 (Article 11, paragraph (2)), art-11/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-11/par-2 - art-11/par-4: 第二号 → 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第十一条第二項第二号 (Article 11, paragraph (2), item (ii)), art-11/par-2/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-11/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-11/par-2/item-2 - art-11/par-4: 第十三条 → 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第十三条 (Article 13), art-13 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-13 - art-11/par-4: 第七条第三項 → 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第七条第三項 (Article 7, paragraph (3)), art-7/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-7/par-3 ## Cited by 11 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第五条第一項（育児休業の申出） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-5/par-1 - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第十一条第一項（介護休業の申出） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-11/par-1 - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第十一条第二項（介護休業の申出） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-11/par-2 - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第十一条第三項（介護休業の申出） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-11/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-11/par-3 - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第十一条第四項（介護休業の申出） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-11/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-11/par-4 - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第十二条第二項（介護休業申出があった場合における事業主の義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-12/par-2 - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第十二条第四項（介護休業申出があった場合における事業主の義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-12/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-12/par-4 - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第六十条第二項（船員に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-60/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-60/par-2 - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第六十一条第三項（公務員に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-61/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-61/par-3 - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第六十一条の二第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-61-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-61-2/par-3 - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 附則第二条第一項（暫定措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/suppl-4031-76/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/suppl-4031-76/art-2/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-09-29 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/403AC0000000076/20261001_507AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-10-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Childcare Leave, Caregiver Leave, and Other Measures for the Welfare of Workers Caring for Children or Other Family Members (育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律), Article 11 — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4340/tb), retrieved 2026-09-23 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Childcare Leave, Caregiver Leave, and Other Measures for the Welfare of Workers Caring for Children or Other Family Members — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4340/tb), retrieved 2026-09-23 - This site's parser, version 211 — 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-05