# 雇用保険法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act — 第百一条の三十八 (Article 101-38) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-101-38. 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: 雇用保険法施行規則 (Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act), 昭和五十年労働省令第三号 - English title "Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act": claude-opus-5-5 - Kind: MinisterialOrdinance — 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: 第百一条の三十八 (Article 101-38)（法第六十一条の十第二項第四号の厚生労働省令で定める場合） — address `art-101-38` - Text in force since: 2026-10-22 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-101-38 - e-Gov law ID: 350M50002000003 — 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百一条の三十八（法第六十一条の十第二項第四号の厚生労働省令で定める場合） — Cases Specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 61-10, Paragraph (2), Item (iv) of the Act caption: machine translation, not official art-101-38 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-101-38 **第一項** 法第六十一条の十第二項第四号の厚生労働省令で定める場合は、次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合とする。 art-101-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-101-38/par-1 The cases specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 61-10, paragraph (2), item (iv) of the Act are cases falling under any of the following items: machine translation, not official **一** 配偶者が日々雇用される者である場合 art-101-38/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-101-38/par-1/item-1 where the spouse is a person employed on a daily basis; machine translation, not official **二** 配偶者が期間を定めて雇用される者である場合であつて、その養育する子の出生の日（出産予定日前に当該子が出生した場合にあつては、当該出産予定日）から起算して八週間を経過する日の翌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あるとき art-101-38/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-101-38/par-1/item-2 where the spouse is a person employed for a fixed period, and it is clear that the labor contract will expire by the day on which six months have passed counting from the day following the day on which eight weeks have passed counting from the day of birth of the child the spouse is raising (where the child was born before the expected date of confinement, the expected date of confinement); machine translation, not official **三** 配偶者が、その雇用する事業主と当該配偶者が雇用される事業所の労働者の過半数で組織する労働組合があるときはその労働組合、その事業所の労働者の過半数で組織する労働組合がないときはその労働者の過半数を代表する者との書面による協定で、育児休業をすることができないものとして定められた労働者に該当する場合であつて、その雇用する事業主にその育児休業の申出又は出生時育児休業の申出を拒まれたとき art-101-38/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-101-38/par-1/item-3 where the spouse falls under a worker who is specified as unable to take childcare leave by a written agreement between the employer employing the spouse and a labor union organized by a majority of the workers at the place of business where the spouse is employed or, where there is no labor union organized by a majority of the workers at that place of business, a person representing a majority of those workers, and the employer employing the spouse has refused the spouse's childcare leave application or application for parental leave; machine translation, not official **四** その他子の出生の日から起算して八週間を経過する日の翌日までの期間内において当該子を養育するための休業をすることができないことについてやむを得ない理由があると公共職業安定所長が認める場合 art-101-38/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-101-38/par-1/item-4 other cases where the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office finds that there are unavoidable grounds for the person being unable to take leave to raise the child within the period up to the day following the day on which eight weeks have passed counting from the day of birth of the child. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-101-38: 法第六十一条の十第二項第四号 → 雇用保険法 第六十一条の十第二項第四号 (Article 61-10, paragraph (2), item (iv)), art-61-10/par-2/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act/art-61-10/par-2/item-4 (e-Gov law ID 349AC0000000116) - art-101-38/par-1: 法第六十一条の十第二項第四号 → 雇用保険法 第六十一条の十第二項第四号 (Article 61-10, paragraph (2), item (iv)), art-61-10/par-2/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act/art-61-10/par-2/item-4 (e-Gov law ID 349AC0000000116) ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 雇用保険法施行規則 第百一条の十六第一項第四号（法第六十一条の四第一項の休業） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-101-16/par-1/item-4 - 雇用保険法施行規則 附則第二条第一項（経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-5069-144/art-2/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — English title of a law in this collection, written for this site, written 2026-11-06 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 雇用保険法施行規則 — the text in force from 2026-10-22 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/350M50002000003/20261022_508M60000100149), retrieved 2026-11-06 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employment-insurance-act-enforcement-ordinance-20261106T171536-038, translated 2026-11-07 - This site's parser, version 228 — 雇用保険法施行規則 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06