# 職業安定法 / Employment Security Act — 第四十二条 (Article 42) - 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: 第四十二条 (Article 42)（労働者の募集を行う者等の責務） — address `art-42` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-security-act/art-42 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-42 - 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. --- ### 第四十二条（労働者の募集を行う者等の責務） — (Responsibilities of Persons Recruiting Workers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-security-act/art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-42 **第一項** 労働者の募集を行う者及び募集受託者は、労働者の適切な職業の選択に資するため、それぞれ、その業務の運営に当たつては、その改善向上を図るために必要な措置を講ずるように努めなければならない。 art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-security-act/art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-42/par-1 A person recruiting workers and a commissioned recruiter must each endeavor, in administering their operations, to take the measures necessary to improve those operations, in order to contribute to workers' appropriate occupational choices. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第十六条第五項（委託募集の特例等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-16/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-16/par-5 - 次世代育成支援対策推進法 第十六条第五項（委託募集の特例等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/next-generation-support-act/art-16/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000120/art-16/par-5 - 職業安定法 第四十八条第一項（指針） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-security-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-48/par-1 - 育児休業、介護休業等育児又は家族介護を行う労働者の福祉に関する法律 第五十三条第五項（育児休業等取得者の業務を処理するために必要な労働者の募集の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/childcare-and-family-care-leave-act/art-53/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/403AC0000000076/art-53/par-5 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch employment-security-act-20261017T220554-001, translated 2026-10-18 - This site's parser, version 209 — 職業安定法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17