# 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 / Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life — 第三十八条 (Article 38) - Law: 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 (Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life), 平成二十七年法律第六十四号 - English title "Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life": 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: 第三十八条 (Article 38) — address `art-38` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-38 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-38 - 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. --- ### 第三十八条 art-38 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-38 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-38 **第一項** 法人の代表者又は法人若しくは人の代理人、使用人その他の従業者が、その法人又は人の業務に関し、第三十四条、第三十六条又は前条の違反行為をしたときは、行為者を罰するほか、その法人又は人に対しても、各本条の罰金刑を科する。 art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-38/par-1 When a representative of a corporation, or an agent, employee or any other worker of a corporation or an individual has committed an act in violation of Article 34, Article 36, or the preceding Article with respect to the business of that corporation or individual, in addition to the offender being subject to punishment, that corporation or individual is subject to the fine prescribed in the respective Articles. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-38/par-1: 第三十四条 → 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第三十四条 (Article 34), art-34 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-34 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-34 - art-38/par-1: 第三十六条 → 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第三十六条 (Article 36), art-36 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-36 - art-38/par-1: 前条 → 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第三十七条 (Article 37), art-37 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-37 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/427AC0000000064/20261001_507AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4163/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 201 — 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19