# 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 / Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons — 第九条 (Article 9) - Law: 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 (Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons), 昭和四十六年法律第六十八号 - English title "Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons": 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: 第九条 (Article 9)（高年齢者雇用確保措置） — address `art-9` - Text in force since: 2022-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-9 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-9 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第九条（高年齢者雇用確保措置） — (Measures for Securing Employment for elderly persons) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-9 **第一項** 定年（六十五歳未満のものに限る。以下この条において同じ。）の定めをしている事業主は、その雇用する高年齢者の六十五歳までの安定した雇用を確保するため、次の各号に掲げる措置（以下「高年齢者雇用確保措置」という。）のいずれかを講じなければならない。 art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-9/par-1 If an employer fixes the mandatory retirement age (limited to under 65 years of age; hereinafter, the same applies in this Article), the employer must take a measure that is one of those listed in the following items in order to secure stable employment for elderly persons employed by the employer until 65 years of age (hereinafter referred to as the "measures for securing employment for elderly persons"): Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 当該定年の引上げ art-9/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-9/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-9/par-1/item-1 raise the mandatory retirement age; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 継続雇用制度（現に雇用している高年齢者が希望するときは、当該高年齢者をその定年後も引き続いて雇用する制度をいう。以下同じ。）の導入 art-9/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-9/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-9/par-1/item-2 introduce a continuous employment system (referring to a system under which an elderly person currently employed continues to be employed after the mandatory retirement age, if for elderly person so desires; the same applies hereinafter); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 当該定年の定めの廃止 art-9/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-9/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-9/par-1/item-3 abolish the mandatory retirement age. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 継続雇用制度には、事業主が、特殊関係事業主（当該事業主の経営を実質的に支配することが可能となる関係にある事業主その他の当該事業主と特殊の関係のある事業主として厚生労働省令で定める事業主をいう。以下この項及び第十条の二第一項において同じ。）との間で、当該事業主の雇用する高年齢者であつてその定年後に雇用されることを希望するものをその定年後に当該特殊関係事業主が引き続いて雇用することを約する契約を締結し、当該契約に基づき当該高年齢者の雇用を確保する制度が含まれるものとする。 art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-9/par-2 Continuous employment systems are to include a mechanism whereby an employer concludes a contract with a specially related employer (referring to an employer in a relationship with a given employer that allows it to have substantial control of the business of the given employer and any other employer specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as being in a special relationship with the given employer; hereinafter, the same applies in this paragraph and Article 10-2, paragraph (1)) promising that the specially related employer will continue to employ elderly persons currently employed by the employer who wish to be employed after the mandatory retirement age, etc., and the employment of elderly persons is secured based on the contract. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 厚生労働大臣は、第一項の事業主が講ずべき高年齢者雇用確保措置の実施及び運用（心身の故障のため業務の遂行に堪えない者等の継続雇用制度における取扱いを含む。）に関する指針（次項において「指針」という。）を定めるものとする。 art-9/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-9/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-9/par-3 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to specify the guidelines concerning the implementation and operation of the measures for securing employment for elderly persons (referred to as the "guidelines" in the following paragraph) that the employer in paragraph (1) should take (including treatment of persons that have difficulty fulfilling their duties in the continuous employment system due to a mental or physical disorder). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 第六条第三項及び第四項の規定は、指針の策定及び変更について準用する。 art-9/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-9/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-9/par-4 The provisions of Article 6, paragraphs (3) and (4) apply mutatis mutandis to formulations of and amendments to the guidelines. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-9/par-1: この条 → 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第九条 (Article 9), art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-9 - art-9/par-2: この項 → 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第九条第二項 (Article 9, paragraph (2)), art-9/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-9/par-2 - art-9/par-2: 第十条の二第一項 → 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第十条の二第一項 (Article 10-2, paragraph (1)), art-10-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-10-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-10-2/par-1 - art-9/par-3: 次項 → 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第九条第四項 (Article 9, paragraph (4)), art-9/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-9/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-9/par-4 - art-9/par-3: 第一項 → 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第九条第一項 (Article 9, paragraph (1)), art-9/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-9/par-1 - art-9/par-4: 第六条第三項 → 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第六条第三項 (Article 6, paragraph (3)), art-6/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-6/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-6/par-3 - art-9/par-4: 第四項 → 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第六条第四項 (Article 6, paragraph (4)), art-6/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-6/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-6/par-4 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 雇用保険法 第六十二条第一項第三号（雇用安定事業） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act/art-62/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-62/par-1/item-3 - 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第六条第二項第四号（高年齢者等職業安定対策基本方針） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-6/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-6/par-2/item-4 - 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第九条第一項（高年齢者雇用確保措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-9/par-1 - 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第九条第二項（高年齢者雇用確保措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-9/par-2 - 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第九条第三項（高年齢者雇用確保措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-9/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-9/par-3 - 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第十条第一項（公表等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-10/par-1 - 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第十条第二項（公表等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-10/par-2 - 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 第十条の二第一項（高年齢者就業確保措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-employment-act/art-10-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000068/art-10-2/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 — the text in force from 2022-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/346AC0000000068/20221001_504AC0000000012), retrieved 2026-10-09 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4630/tb), retrieved 2026-10-09 - This site's parser, version 164 — 高年齢者等の雇用の安定等に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-09