# 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 — 第七十九条 (Article 79) - 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: 第七十九条 (Article 79)（障害者職業生活相談員） — address `art-79` - 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-79 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-79 - 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. --- ### 第七十九条（障害者職業生活相談員） — (Working Life Counselors for Persons with Disabilities) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-79 **第一項** 国及び地方公共団体の任命権者は、厚生労働省令で定める数以上の障害者（身体障害者、知的障害者及び精神障害者（厚生労働省令で定める者に限る。）に限る。以下この条及び第八十一条において同じ。）である職員（常時勤務する職員に限る。以下この項及び第八十一条第二項において同じ。）が勤務する事業所においては、その勤務する職員であつて、厚生労働大臣が行う講習（以下この条において「資格認定講習」という。）を修了したものその他厚生労働省令で定める資格を有するもののうちから、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、障害者職業生活相談員を選任し、その者にその勤務する障害者である職員の職業生活に関する相談及び指導を行わせなければならない。 art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-79/par-1 At an establishment where at least the number that Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribes of employees (but only employees working on a full-time basis; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph and Article 81, paragraph (2)) who are persons with disabilities (but only persons with physical disabilities, persons with intellectual disabilities, and persons with mental disabilities (but only those provided for by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare); hereinafter the same applies in this Article and Article 81) work, the national or local government's appointer, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, must appoint a working life counselor for persons with disabilities from among employees who work there and who have either finished a training course implemented by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (hereinafter referred to as "credentialing course" in this Article) or otherwise possess the credentials provided for by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and must have that person handle consultations and give guidance on the working lives of employees with disabilities who work there. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 事業主は、厚生労働省令で定める数以上の障害者である労働者を雇用する事業所においては、その雇用する労働者であつて、資格認定講習を修了したものその他厚生労働省令で定める資格を有するもののうちから、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、障害者職業生活相談員を選任し、その者に当該事業所に雇用されている障害者である労働者の職業生活に関する相談及び指導を行わせなければならない。 art-79/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-79/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-79/par-2 At a place of business that employs at least the number that Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribes of workers with disabilities, the employer, pursuant to the provisions of Order of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, must appoint a working life counselor for persons with disabilities from among the workers whom they employ who have either finished the credentialing course or otherwise possess the credentials provided for by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and must have that counselor handle consultations and give guidance on the working lives of employees with disabilities who are employed at that place of business. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 厚生労働大臣は、資格認定講習に関する業務の全部又は一部を、第四十九条第一項第九号に掲げる業務として機構に行わせることができる。 art-79/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-79/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-79/par-3 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may delegate all or part of the services related to the credentialing course to JEED as the services set forth in Article 49, paragraph (1), item (ix). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-79/par-1: この条 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第七十九条 (Article 79), art-79 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-79 - art-79/par-1: 第八十一条 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第八十一条 (Article 81), art-81 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-81 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-81 - art-79/par-1: この項 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第七十九条第一項 (Article 79, paragraph (1)), art-79/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-79/par-1 - art-79/par-1: 第八十一条第二項 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第八十一条第二項 (Article 81, paragraph (2)), art-81/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-81/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-81/par-2 - art-79/par-3: 第四十九条第一項第九号 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第四十九条第一項第九号 (Article 49, paragraph (1), item (ix)), art-49/par-1/item-9 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-49/par-1/item-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-49/par-1/item-9 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第三十七条第二項（対象障害者の雇用に関する事業主の責務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-37/par-2 - 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第三十八条第一項（雇用に関する国及び地方公共団体の義務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-38/par-1 - 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第七十九条第一項（障害者職業生活相談員） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-79/par-1 --- ## 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