# 職業安定法 / Employment Security Act — 第二十条 (Article 20) - Law: 職業安定法 (Employment Security Act), 昭和二十二年法律第百四十一号 - English title "Employment Security Act": 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: 第二十条 (Article 20)（労働争議に対する不介入） — address `art-20` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-security-act/art-20 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-20 - 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. --- ### 第二十条（労働争議に対する不介入） — (Non-Intervention in Labor Disputes) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-security-act/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-20 **第一項** 公共職業安定所は、労働争議に対する中立の立場を維持するため、同盟罷業又は作業所閉鎖の行われている事業所に、求職者を紹介してはならない。 art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-security-act/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-20/par-1 In order to maintain a neutral position regarding labor disputes, a public employment security office must not refer a job seeker to a place of business where there is an ongoing strike or lock-out. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項に規定する場合の外、労働委員会が公共職業安定所に対し、事業所において、同盟罷業又は作業所閉鎖に至る虞の多い争議が発生していること及び求職者を無制限に紹介することによつて、当該争議の解決が妨げられることを通報した場合においては、公共職業安定所は当該事業所に対し、求職者を紹介してはならない。但し、当該争議の発生前、通常使用されていた労働者の員数を維持するため必要な限度まで労働者を紹介する場合は、この限りでない。 art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-security-act/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-20/par-2 Other than in the case as prescribed in the preceding paragraph, if a labor relations commission notifies a public employment security office that a dispute which is likely to develop into a strike or lock-out has arisen at a place of business, and that the unrestricted referral of job seekers would impede the settlement of the dispute, the public employment security office must not refer job seekers to that place of business; provided, however, that this does not apply referring workers to the extent needed for the place of business to maintain the number of workers normally employed prior to the occurrence of the dispute. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-20/par-2: 前項 → 職業安定法 第二十条第一項 (Article 20, paragraph (1)), art-20/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-security-act/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-20/par-1 ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働者派遣事業の適正な運営の確保及び派遣労働者の保護等に関する法律 第二十四条（職業安定法第二十条の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/worker-dispatch-act/art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/l/360AC0000000088/art-24 - 労働者派遣事業の適正な運営の確保及び派遣労働者の保護等に関する法律 第二十四条第一項（職業安定法第二十条の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/worker-dispatch-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/360AC0000000088/art-24/par-1 - 職業安定法 第二十条第二項（労働争議に対する不介入） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-security-act/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-20/par-2 - 職業安定法 第二十九条の八第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-security-act/art-29-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-29-8/par-1 - 職業安定法 第三十四条第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-security-act/art-34/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-34/par-1 - 職業安定法 第四十二条の二第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-security-act/art-42-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-42-2/par-1 - 職業安定法 第四十六条第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-security-act/art-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-46/par-1 - 雇用保険法 第三十二条第一項第四号（給付制限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act/art-32/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-32/par-1/item-4 - 雇用保険法 第五十二条第一項第三号（給付制限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act/art-52/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-52/par-1/item-3 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 職業安定法 — the text in force from 2026-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000141/20260401_506AC0000000050), retrieved 2026-10-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Employment Security Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4627/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - This site's parser, version 209 — 職業安定法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17