# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第十二条 (Article 12)
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- Law: 労働基準法施行規則 (Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act), 昭和二十二年厚生省令第二十三号
- English title "Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act": Ministry of Justice translation
- 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: 第十二条 (Article 12) — address `art-12`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
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### 第十二条
art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-12
**第一項** 常時十人に満たない労働者を使用する使用者は、法第三十二条の二第一項又は法第三十五条第二項による定めをした場合（法第三十二条の二第一項の協定（法第三十八条の四第五項（法第四十一条の二第三項において準用する場合を含む。）に規定する法第三十八条の四第一項の委員会（以下「労使委員会」という。）の決議（以下「労使委員会の決議」という。）及び労働時間等の設定の改善に関する特別措置法（平成四年法律第九十号。以下「労働時間等設定改善法」という。）第七条に規定する労働時間等設定改善委員会の決議（以下「労働時間等設定改善委員会の決議」という。）を含む。）による定めをした場合を除く。）には、これを労働者に周知させるものとする。
art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-12/par-1
When an employer who regularly employs less than 10 workers adopts such rules that are referred to in paragraph (1) of Article 32-2 or paragraph (2) of Article 35 of the Act, the employer shall make such rules known to the workers, except in cases where such rules are adopted by a written agreement referred to in paragraph (1) of Article 32-2 of the Act (including any resolution by the committee referred to in paragraph (1) of Article 38-4 of the Act set forth in paragraph (5) of the same Article (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (3) of Article 41-2 of the Act) (such committee shall hereinafter be referred to as a "labor-management committee") (such resolution shall hereinafter be referred to as a "resolution by a labor-management committee") and any resolution by the committee on the improvement of working time arrangements provided for in Article 7 of the Act on Special Measures for Improvement of Working Time Arrangements (Act No. 90 of 1992; hereinafter referred to as the "Improvement of Working Time Arrangements Act") (such resolution shall hereinafter be referred to as a "resolution by the committee on the improvement of working time arrangements")).
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## Cites
- art-12/par-1: 法第三十二条の二第一項 → 労働基準法 第三十二条の二第一項 (Article 32-2, paragraph (1)), art-32-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-32-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-32-2/par-1
- art-12/par-1: 法第三十五条第二項 → 労働基準法 第三十五条第二項 (Article 35, paragraph (2)), art-35/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-35/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-35/par-2
- art-12/par-1: 法第三十八条の四第五項 → 労働基準法 第三十八条の四第五項 (Article 38-4, paragraph (5)), art-38-4/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-38-4/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-38-4/par-5
- art-12/par-1: 法第四十一条の二第三項 → 労働基準法 第四十一条の二第三項 (Article 41-2, paragraph (3)), art-41-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-41-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-41-2/par-3
- art-12/par-1: 法第三十八条の四第一項 → 労働基準法 第三十八条の四第一項 (Article 38-4, paragraph (1)), art-38-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-38-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-38-4/par-1
- art-12/par-1: 労働時間等の設定の改善に関する特別措置法（平成四年法律第九十号。以下「労働時間等設定改善法」という。）第七条 → e-Gov law 404AC0000000090, 第七条 (Article 7), art-7 — not held in this collection
## Cited by
1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.
- 労働基準法施行規則 第二十五条の三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-25-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-25-3/par-1
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## Sources
- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 労働基準法施行規則 — the text in force from 2026-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322M40000100023/20260401_508M60000100057), retrieved 2026-09-10
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2605/tb), retrieved 2026-09-10
- claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance-20260918T121515-001, translated 2026-09-18
- This site's parser, version 222 — 労働基準法施行規則 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-10