# 労働基準法 / Labor Standards Act — 第七条 (Article 7) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-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 (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: 第七条 (Article 7)（公民権行使の保障） — address `art-7` - Text in force since: 2026-07-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条（公民権行使の保障） — (Guarantee of the Exercise of Civil Rights) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-7 **第一項** 使用者は、労働者が労働時間中に、選挙権その他公民としての権利を行使し、又は公の職務を執行するために必要な時間を請求した場合においては、拒んではならない。但し、権利の行使又は公の職務の執行に妨げがない限り、請求された時刻を変更することができる。 art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-7/par-1 An employer must not refuse a worker's request for time needed to exercise the right to vote or any other civil right, or to perform a public duty during working hours; provided, however, that the employer may alter the time requested by the worker as long as the alteration does not hinder the exercise of that right, or the performance of that public duty. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 - 労働基準法 第百十九条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-119/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-119/par-1/item-1 - 労働者派遣事業の適正な運営の確保及び派遣労働者の保護等に関する法律 第四十四条第二項（労働基準法の適用に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/worker-dispatch-act/art-44/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/360AC0000000088/art-44/par-2 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 213 — 労働基準法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-27