# 労働基準法 / Labor Standards Act — 第百十七条 (Article 117) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-117. 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 (Labor Standards Act), 昭和二十二年法律第四十九号 - English title "Labor Standards 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: 第百十七条 (Article 117) — address `art-117` - Text in force since: 2026-07-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-117 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-117 - 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. --- ### 第百十七条 art-117 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-117 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-117 **第一項** 第五条の規定に違反した者は、一年以上十年以下の拘禁刑又は二十万円以上三百万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-117/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-117/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-117/par-1 A person who violates the provisions of Article 5 is punished by imprisonment for not less than one year and not more than ten years or by a fine of not less than 200,000 yen and not more than 3,000,000 yen. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-117/par-1: 第五条 → 労働基準法 第五条 (Article 5), art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-5 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 出入国管理及び難民認定法施行令 第五条第一項第一号（法第十九条の二十六第一項第二号の出入国又は労働に関する法律の規定であって政令で定めるもの） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act-enforcement-order/art-5/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/410CO0000000178/art-5/par-1/item-1 - 労働基準法 第百十六条第一項（適用除外） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-116/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-116/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 労働基準法 — the text in force from 2026-07-17 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000049/20260717_508AC0000000060), retrieved 2026-09-27 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Labor Standards Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4913/tb), retrieved 2026-09-27 - claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch labor-standards-act-001, translated 2026-09-11 - This site's parser, version 224 — 労働基準法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-27