# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)

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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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（経過措置） — address `suppl-4069-1/art-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
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### 第二条（経過措置） — Transitional Measures
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4069-1/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-4069-1/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-4069-1/art-2</sup>

**第一項**  この省令の施行の日前に六箇月を超えて継続勤務している労働者に係る労働基準法（以下「法」という。）第三十九条第三項の通常の労働者の一週間の所定労働日数として命令で定める日数と当該労働者の一週間の所定労働日数又は一週間当たりの平均所定労働日数との比率を考慮して命令で定める日数は、改正後の労働基準法施行規則（以下「新規則」という。）第二十四条の三第三項の規定にかかわらず、法第三十九条第三項第一号に掲げる労働者にあっては次の表の上欄の週所定労働日数の区分に応じ、同項第二号に掲げる労働者にあっては同表の中欄の一年間の所定労働日数の区分に応じて、それぞれ同表の下欄に勤続年数の区分ごとに定める日数とする。
週所定労働日数	一年間の所定労働日数	勤続年数
一年	二年	三年	四年	五年	六年	七年	八年	九年	十年	十一年以上
四日	百六十九日から二百十六日まで	七日	七日	八日	九日	九日	十日	十一日	十一日	十二日	十三日	十四日
三日	百二十一日から百六十八日まで	五日	五日	六日	六日	七日	七日	八日	八日	九日	十日	十日
二日	七十三日から百二十日まで	三日	三日	四日	四日	四日	五日	五日	五日	六日	六日	七日
一日	四十八日から七十二日まで	一日	一日	二日	二日	二日	二日	二日	二日	三日	三日	三日
<sup>suppl-4069-1/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-4069-1/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-4069-1/art-2/par-1</sup>
With respect to a worker who has been in continuous service for more than six months before the date on which this Ministerial Order comes into effect, the number of days specified by order in consideration of the ratio between the number of days specified by order as the number of prescribed working days per week of an ordinary worker referred to in Article 39, paragraph (3) of the Labor Standards Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Act") and the number of prescribed working days per week or the average number of prescribed working days per week of the worker concerned is, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 24-3, paragraph (3) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act after the amendment (hereinafter referred to as "the New Rules"), the number of days specified for each category of years of continuous service in the right-hand column of the following table, in accordance with the category of the number of prescribed working days per week in the left-hand column of that table for a worker set forth in Article 39, paragraph (3), item (i) of the Act, and in accordance with the category of the number of prescribed working days for one year in the middle column of that table for a worker set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph.
Prescribed weekly working days	Prescribed working days for one year	Years of continuous service
1 year	2 years	3 years	4 years	5 years	6 years	7 years	8 years	9 years	10 years	11 years or more
4 days	169 to 216 days	7 days	7 days	8 days	9 days	9 days	10 days	11 days	11 days	12 days	13 days	14 days
3 days	121 to 168 days	5 days	5 days	6 days	6 days	7 days	7 days	8 days	8 days	9 days	10 days	10 days
2 days	73 to 120 days	3 days	3 days	4 days	4 days	4 days	5 days	5 days	5 days	6 days	6 days	7 days
1 day	48 to 72 days	1 day	1 day	2 days	2 days	2 days	2 days	2 days	2 days	3 days	3 days	3 days
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4069-1/art-2/par-1: 第三十九条第三項 → 労働基準法 第三十九条第三項 (Article 39, paragraph (3)), art-39/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-39/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-39/par-3
- suppl-4069-1/art-2/par-1: 第二十四条の三第三項 → 労働基準法施行規則 第二十四条の三第三項 (Article 24-3, paragraph (3)), art-24-3/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-24-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-24-3/par-3
- suppl-4069-1/art-2/par-1: 法第三十九条第三項第一号 → 労働基準法 第三十九条第三項第一号 (Article 39, paragraph (3), item (i)), art-39/par-3/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-39/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-39/par-3/item-1
- suppl-4069-1/art-2/par-1: 同項第二号 → 労働基準法 第三十九条第三項第二号 (Article 39, paragraph (3), item (ii)), art-39/par-3/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-39/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-39/par-3/item-2

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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-015, translated 2026-09-11
- claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance-20260918T205218-001, 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
