# 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 / Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities — 第十八条 (Article 18)

- Law: 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 (Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities), 昭和三十五年法律第百二十三号
- English title "Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities": 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: 第十八条 (Article 18)（事業主に対する助言及び指導） — address `art-18`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-18
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-18
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### 第十八条（事業主に対する助言及び指導） — (Giving Advice and Guidance to Employers)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-18</sup>

  **第一項**  公共職業安定所は、障害者の雇用の促進及びその職業の安定を図るために必要があると認めるときは、障害者を雇用し、又は雇用しようとする者に対して、雇入れ、配置、作業補助具、作業の設備又は環境その他障害者の雇用に関する技術的事項（次節において「障害者の雇用管理に関する事項」という。）についての助言又は指導を行うことができる。
  <sup>art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-18/par-1</sup>
  If a public employment security office finds it to be necessary to do so in order to facilitate the employment of a person with a disability and stabilize employment for that person, it may give a person who employs or seeks to employ a person with a disability advice or guidance as to hiring, job assignment, work assistance tools, work equipment or environment, or other technical matters involved in the employment of persons with disabilities (referred to as "personnel management matters concerning persons with disabilities" in the following Section).
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/335AC0000000123/20261001_507AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-10-18
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3845/tb), retrieved 2026-10-18
- This site's parser, version 209 — 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18