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Guidelines Concerning Measures to Be Taken by Employers to Facilitate the Coexistence of the Working Lives and Family Lives of Workers Who Take Care of or Are Going to Take Care of Children or Other Family Members
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Law Concerning the Welfare of Workers Who Take Care of Children or Other Family Members, Including Child Care and Family Care Leave

CHAPTER III-2. LEAVE TO TAKE CARE OF A SICK CHILD

Application for Leave to Take Care of a Sick Child

Article 16-2. A worker raising a child not yet of elementary school age may obtain leave to care for said child in the event of injury and/or illness to said child upon application to his or her employer, said leave to be limited to five working days per fiscal year (hereinafter referred to as “leave to take care of a sick child” in this chapter).

2.	Applications made under the provisions of the preceding paragraph shall clearly state the days to be obtained as leave to take care of a sick child as provided by ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

3.	“Fiscal year” for the purposes of paragraph 1 shall refer to a period that begins on April 1 and ends on March 31 of the following year unless specified to the contrary by the employer.

Obligations of Employers, Etc. upon Receiving an Application for Leave to Take Care of a Sick Child

Article 16-3. When an employer receives an application for leave to take care of a sick child from a worker, the employer may not refuse said application for leave to take care of a sick child.

The proviso to paragraph 1 of Article 6 (except numbered item 2) and the provisions of paragraph 2 of Article 6 shall apply mutatis mutandis in the event that the worker has made an application under the provisions of paragraph 1 of the preceding article. In such cases, the words “one year” in numbered item 1 of paragraph 1 of Article 6 shall be read “six months,” the words “proviso of the preceding paragraph” in paragraph 2 of Article 6 shall be read “the proviso to paragraph 1 of Article 6 as applied mutatis mutandis in paragraph 2 of Article 16-3, ” and the phrase “paragraph 1 and paragraph 3 of the preceding article” shall be read “paragraph 1 of Article 16-2.”

Application Mutatis Mutandis

Article 16-4. The provisions of Article 10 shall apply mutatis mutandis to applications and leave to take care of a sick child pursuant to paragraph 1 of Article 16-2.

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