# 労働基準法 / Labor Standards Act — 第百三十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 137) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-3221-49/art-137. 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: 第百三十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 137) — address `suppl-3221-49/art-137` - Text in force since: 2026-07-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-3221-49/art-137 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-3221-49/art-137 - 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. --- ### 第百三十七条 suppl-3221-49/art-137 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-3221-49/art-137 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-3221-49/art-137 **第一項** 期間の定めのある労働契約（一定の事業の完了に必要な期間を定めるものを除き、その期間が一年を超えるものに限る。）を締結した労働者（第十四条第一項各号に規定する労働者を除く。）は、労働基準法の一部を改正する法律（平成十五年法律第百四号）附則第三条に規定する措置が講じられるまでの間、民法第六百二十八条の規定にかかわらず、当該労働契約の期間の初日から一年を経過した日以後においては、その使用者に申し出ることにより、いつでも退職することができる。 suppl-3221-49/art-137/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-3221-49/art-137/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-3221-49/art-137/par-1 Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 628 of the Civil Code, until the measures provided for in Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Labor Standards Act (Act No. 104 of 2003) are taken, beginning on the day that falls one year after the first day of the term of the labor contract, a worker who has entered into a fixed-term labor contract (limited to one with a term of over one year; excluding contracts in which it is provided that the contract period is the period necessary for the completion of a specific undertaking business) (excluding a worker provided for in the items of Article 14, paragraph (1)), may resign at any time by giving notice of this intention to the employer. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-3221-49/art-137/par-1: 第十四条第一項 → 労働基準法 第十四条第一項 (Article 14, paragraph (1)), art-14/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-14/par-1 - suppl-3221-49/art-137/par-1: 労働基準法の一部を改正する法律（平成十五年法律第百四号）附則第三条 → 労働基準法 附則第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3), suppl-4151-104/art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/suppl-4151-104/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/suppl-4151-104/art-3 - suppl-3221-49/art-137/par-1: 民法第六百二十八条 → 民法 第六百二十八条 (Article 628), art-628 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-628 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-628 --- ## 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 224 — 労働基準法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-27