# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第三十八条の七 (Article 38-7) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-38-7. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - 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: 第三十八条の七 (Article 38-7) — address `art-38-7` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-38-7 - e-Gov law ID: 322M40000100023 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL 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. --- ### 第三十八条の七 art-38-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-38-7 **第一項** 常時百人未満の労働者を使用する事業場における休業補償については、毎月勤労統計における各産業の毎月きまつて支給する給与の四半期ごとの平均給与額のその四半期の前における四半期ごとの平均給与額に対する比率に基づき、当該休業補償の額の算定にあたり平均賃金の百分の六十（当該事業場が当該休業補償について常時百人以上の労働者を使用するものとしてその額の改訂をしたことがあるものである場合にあつては、当該改訂に係る休業補償の額）に乗ずべき率を告示するものとする。 art-38-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-38-7/par-1 With respect to compensation for absence from work at a workplace that regularly employs fewer than 100 workers, the rate by which 60 percent of the average wage (or, if the workplace is one that has revised the amount of that compensation for absence from work as a workplace regularly employing 100 or more workers, the amount of compensation for absence from work pertaining to that revision) is to be multiplied in calculating the amount of that compensation for absence from work is to be publicly notified, based on the ratio of the quarterly average amount of salary regularly paid every month in each industry in the Monthly Labour Survey to the quarterly average amount of salary for the quarter preceding that quarter. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働基準法施行規則 第三十八条の九第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-38-9/par-1 - 労働基準法施行規則 第三十八条の十第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-38-10/par-1 --- ## 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-007, translated 2026-09-11 - 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