# 民法 / Civil Code — 第六百二十七条 (Article 627) - Law: 民法 (Civil Code), 明治二十九年法律第八十九号 - English title "Civil Code": 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: 第六百二十七条 (Article 627)（期間の定めのない雇用の解約の申入れ） — address `art-627` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-627 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-627 - 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. --- ### 第六百二十七条（期間の定めのない雇用の解約の申入れ） — (Notice of Termination of Employment with Indefinite Term) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-627 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-627 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-627 **第一項** 当事者が雇用の期間を定めなかったときは、各当事者は、いつでも解約の申入れをすることができる。この場合において、雇用は、解約の申入れの日から二週間を経過することによって終了する。 art-627/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-627/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-627/par-1 If the parties have not specified a term of employment, either party may give notice of termination at any time. In these cases, employment terminates on the expiration of two weeks from the day of the notice of termination. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 期間によって報酬を定めた場合には、使用者からの解約の申入れは、次期以後についてすることができる。ただし、その解約の申入れは、当期の前半にしなければならない。 art-627/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-627/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-627/par-2 If remuneration is specified with reference to a period, an employer's notice of termination may be given with respect to the following period of time onward; provided, however, that the notice of termination must be given in the first half of the current period. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 六箇月以上の期間によって報酬を定めた場合には、前項の解約の申入れは、三箇月前にしなければならない。 art-627/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-627/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-627/par-3 If remuneration is specified with reference to a period of six months or more, the notice of termination referred to in the preceding paragraph must be given three months before the termination. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-627/par-3: 前項 → 民法 第六百二十七条第二項 (Article 627, paragraph (2)), art-627/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-627/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-627/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第六百二十七条第三項（期間の定めのない雇用の解約の申入れ） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-627/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-627/par-3 - 民法 第六百二十九条第一項（雇用の更新の推定等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-629/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-629/par-1 - 民法 第六百三十一条第一項（使用者についての破産手続の開始による解約の申入れ） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-631/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-631/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/129AC0000000089/20260624_508AC0000000045), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Code — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4848/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11