一the employer is one that falls under all of the following:

イthe employer is one that hires, as a worker to be continuously employed, a job seeker who falls under any of the following (limited to job seekers under 65 for those who fall under (2) through (8), and limited to job seekers aged 45 or more and under 65 for those who fall under (9) through (15); excluding a job seeker who receives or has received training for adapting to the working environment as directed by the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office (excluding training whose period is within two weeks (four weeks for training pertaining to a person listed in (2) or (3) who is determined by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in consideration of the degree of the physical impairment or intellectual impairment)) and who is to be hired by the employer that conducts or conducted that training (hereinafter referred to as a "job seeker in workplace adaptation training")) and who is referred by a Public Employment Security Office or an employment placement service provider, etc. (limited to a person that satisfies the standards determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau) (referred to as a "Public Employment Security Office, etc." in (1)) (where hiring a person listed in (15), limited to an employer that hires a person referred by a Public Employment Security Office):

（１）a person aged 60 or more who, on the day of referral by the Public Employment Security Office, etc., is receiving, at the Public Employment Security Office, etc., support toward employment that is determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau;

（２）a person with a physical disability;

（３）a person with an intellectual disability;

（４）a person with a mental disability;

（５）a woman without a spouse as prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Act on Welfare of Mothers and Fathers with Dependents and Widows (Act No. 129 of 1964) who is supporting a child under 20 years of age, a child in a state of impairment specified in Appended Table 2, or a spouse (including a person who has not filed a notification of marriage but is in circumstances equivalent to a de facto marital relationship) who has long been unable to work due to a mental or physical impairment as referred to in item (v) of that paragraph (hereinafter referred to as a "single mother, etc.");

（６）a person who receives the child rearing allowance prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Child Rearing Allowance Act (Act No. 238 of 1961) and is the father of a child prescribed in that paragraph (hereinafter referred to as a "single father");

（７）Japanese nationals remaining in China, etc. who have returned to Japan for permanent residence, and their relatives, etc., as referred to in Article 10 of the Act on Promotion of Smooth Return of Japanese Nationals Remaining in China, etc. and on Support for the Self-Reliance of Japanese Nationals Remaining in China, etc. Who Have Returned to Japan for Permanent Residence and Their Specified Spouses (Act No. 30 of 1994), for whom 10 years have not elapsed counting from the day on which they returned to Japan for permanent residence;

（８）returned victims, etc. as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (v) of the Act on Aid to Persons Abducted by North Korean Authorities and Other Relevant Persons (Act No. 143 of 2002) for whom 10 years have not elapsed counting from the day on which they are found to have decided to reside permanently in Japan, and returned victims as prescribed in that item who are found to face difficult circumstances in deciding to reside permanently, such as their spouses (including a person who has not filed a notification of marriage but is in circumstances equivalent to a de facto marital relationship), children and grandchildren remaining in North Korea;

（９）a person who has received certification under Article 10-2, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Act on Temporary Measures concerning Ex-Workers of Armed Forces Stationed in Japan;

（１０）a person in possession of an Okinawa unemployed persons' job seeker's handbook under Article 70, paragraph (1) of the Act on Special Measures for the Promotion and Development of Okinawa (limited to one that remains in effect under the provisions of that Act);

（１１）a person in possession of a job seeker's handbook for retired fishers under Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Act on Temporary Measures concerning Retired Fishers Incidental to Conclusion of International Agreement (Act No. 94 of 1977) or Article 3-2 of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Act on Temporary Measures concerning Retired Fishers Incidental to Conclusion of International Agreement (Order of the Ministry of Labour No. 30 of 1977) (limited to one that remains in effect under the provisions of that Act);

（１２）a retired fisher who is a handbook holder as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures, and Stabilizing the Employment of Workers, and Enriching Workers' Vocational Lives (Order of the Ministry of Labour No. 23 of 1966), or a person deemed to be a retired fisher who is a handbook holder pursuant to Article 6 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Ministerial Order;

（１３）a person in possession of a job seeker's handbook for persons separated from general passenger regular ferry line service, etc. under Article 16, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Act on Special Measures concerning Regular Ferry Line Service for General Passengers Incidental to Construction of Connection Bridge Between Honshu and Shikoku or Article 1 of the Ministerial Order on Employment Guidance, etc. Based on the Act on Special Measures concerning Regular Ferry Line Service for General Passengers Incidental to Construction of Connection Bridge Between Honshu and Shikoku (limited to one that remains in effect under the provisions of that Act) (limited to a person hired by an employer other than an employer certified under Article 5, paragraph (1) of that Act with regard to the implementation plan prescribed in that paragraph);

（１４）a port transport business separated worker as prescribed in Article 1-4, paragraph (1), item (vi) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures, and Stabilizing the Employment of Workers, and Enriching Workers' Vocational Lives (limited to a person hired by an employer other than an employer certified under that item with regard to the implementation of a reduction in business scale, etc. prescribed in that item);

（１５）in addition to persons who fall under any of (1) through (14), a person whom the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office finds to have extreme difficulty in finding employment;

ロthe employer is an employer other than another employer that is closely related to the employer that had employed the covered worker, in light of the status of stated capital, funds, personnel, transactions, etc.;

ハthe employer is an employer other than one that dismissed workers of the place of business pertaining to the hiring under (a) during the period from the day six months before the day preceding the day of that hiring until the day on which one year has passed from that day six months before (referred to as the "reference period" in (d)) (excluding an employer that dismissed workers because it became impossible to continue the business due to a natural disaster or other unavoidable reason, or for reasons attributable to the workers);

ニthe employer is one that is found to be conducting appropriate employment management, judging from the number, etc. of persons who had been employed at the place of business pertaining to that hiring and separated from service during the reference period, for whom determination of recipient qualification was made during that reference period as specific qualified recipients;

ホthe employer is one that maintains documents clarifying the status of separation of workers from that place of business and the status of payment of wages to the person pertaining to the hiring under (a);

二for each person pertaining to a hiring that falls under (a) of the preceding item: 500,000 yen (600,000 yen for a small and medium-sized enterprise employer) (where it does not meet the standards determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau, the amount calculated by the method determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau).

一a person with a physical disability;

二a person with an intellectual disability;

三a person with a mental disability.

一a person with a physical disability;

二a person with an intellectual disability.

一a person with a severe physical disability prescribed in Article 2, item (iii) of the Disability Employment Promotion Act (hereinafter simply referred to as a "person with a severe physical disability");

二a person with a severe intellectual disability prescribed in Article 2, item (v) of the Disability Employment Promotion Act (hereinafter simply referred to as a "person with a severe intellectual disability");

三a person with a physical disability who is aged 45 or more (excluding a person listed in item (i));

四a person with an intellectual disability who is aged 45 or more (excluding a person listed in item (ii));

五a person with a mental disability.

一the employer is one that falls under all of the following:

イthe employer is one that hires, as a worker to be continuously employed, a person who falls under any of the following (limited to a job seeker under 65 who is not a job seeker in workplace adaptation training and who was employed during the support period), through referral by a Public Employment Security Office or an employment placement service provider, etc. (limited to a person that satisfies the standards determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau):

（１）a public assistance recipient prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Public Assistance Act (Act No. 144 of 1950) (referred to as a "public assistance recipient" in (3)) who falls under any of the following:

（ｉ）a person for whom a prefecture, a city (including a special ward), or a town or village that has established a welfare office prescribed in Article 14, paragraph (1) of the Social Welfare Act (Act No. 45 of 1951) (referred to as a "prefecture, etc." in (2)) made a request based on an agreement concluded with the Prefectural Labor Bureau or a Public Employment Security Office concerning employment support, and for whom the Public Employment Security Office provided support such as employment placement and vocational guidance for a certain period (hereinafter in this (a) referred to as "employment support by the Public Employment Security Office"), where the period during which the person received that employment support by the Public Employment Security Office exceeds three months as of the day of hiring (referred to as a "person receiving employment support" in (2), (i));

（ｉｉ）a person eligible for the employment support programme for public assistance recipients prescribed in Article 55-7, paragraph (1) of the Public Assistance Act (referred to as the "employment support programme for public assistance recipients" in (iii) and (3)), where the period during which the person received that support exceeds three months as of the day of hiring;

（ｉｉｉ）a person for whom the period during which the person received support through employment support by the Public Employment Security Office and the employment support programme for public assistance recipients exceeds three months in total as of the day of hiring;

（２）a person in need prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Act on Self-Reliance Support for Persons in Need (Act No. 105 of 2013) (limited to a person for whom a prefecture, etc. has prepared the plan prescribed in paragraph (2), item (iii) of that Article (limited to a person for whom, with regard to that plan, the date of achievement stated in that plan pursuant to Article 1 of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Act on Self-Reliance Support for Persons in Need (Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare No. 16 of 2015) has not yet arrived); referred to as a "person in need" in (3)) who falls under any of the following:

（ｉ）a person receiving employment support;

（ｉｉ）a person eligible for employment support through the project prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Act on Self-Reliance Support for Persons in Need, where the period during which the person received that support exceeds three months as of the day of hiring;

（ｉｉｉ）a person for whom the period during which the person received support through employment support by the Public Employment Security Office and the support under (ii) exceeds three months in total as of the day of hiring;

（３）a public assistance recipient or person in need who does not fall under (1) or (2), where the period during which the person received support through employment support by the Public Employment Security Office, the employment support programme for public assistance recipients, or the support under (2), (ii) exceeds three months in total as of the day of hiring;

ロthe employer is an employer other than another employer that is closely related to the employer that had employed the covered worker, in light of the status of stated capital, funds, personnel, transactions, etc.;

ハthe employer is an employer other than one that dismissed workers of the place of business pertaining to the hiring under (a) during the period from the day six months before the day preceding the day of that hiring until the day on which one year has passed from that day six months before (referred to as the "reference period" in (d)) (excluding an employer that dismissed workers because it became impossible to continue the business due to a natural disaster or other unavoidable reason, or for reasons attributable to the workers);

ニthe employer is one that is found to be conducting appropriate employment management, judging from the number, etc. of persons who had been employed at the place of business pertaining to that hiring and separated from service during the reference period, for whom determination of recipient qualification was made during that reference period as specific qualified recipients;

ホthe employer is one that maintains documents clarifying the status of separation of workers from that place of business and the status of payment of wages to the person pertaining to the hiring under (a);

二for each person pertaining to a hiring that falls under (a) of the preceding item: 500,000 yen (600,000 yen for a small and medium-sized enterprise employer) (where it does not meet the standards determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau, the amount calculated by the method determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau).

一the employer is one that falls under all of the following:

イthe employer is one that hires, as a worker with a standard employment status, a job seeker who falls under all of the following, through referral by a Public Employment Security Office or an employment placement service provider, etc. (limited to a person that satisfies the standards determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau; the same applies in (4) and (5)):

（１）a person aged 35 or more and under 60;

（２）a person for whom the total period of employment as a worker with a standard employment status during the past five years counting from the day preceding the day of hiring (including a period during which a person determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau as equivalent to a worker with a standard employment status held an occupation requiring abilities equal to or greater than those necessary for performing the duties in which workers with a standard employment status are engaged; the same applies hereinafter in this (2)) is one year or less;

（３）a person who has not been employed as a worker with a standard employment status during the past one year counting from the day preceding the day of hiring (including a person who was employed as a worker with a standard employment status during that period and separated from service during that period for reasons other than those attributable to that person, and excluding a person determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau as equivalent to a worker with a standard employment status who held, during that period, an occupation requiring abilities equal to or greater than those necessary for performing the duties in which workers with a standard employment status are engaged);

（４）a person who does not hold a stable occupation on the date of referral by a Public Employment Security Office or an employment placement service provider, etc. (referred to as the "referral date" in (5));

（５）a person who, on the referral date, is receiving, at a Public Employment Security Office or an employment placement service provider, etc., support toward employment that is determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau;

ロthe employer is an employer other than another employer that is closely related to the employer that had employed the covered worker, in light of the status of stated capital, funds, personnel, transactions, etc.;

ハthe employer is an employer other than one that dismissed workers of the place of business pertaining to the hiring under (a) during the period from the day six months before the day preceding the day of that hiring until the day on which one year has passed from that day six months before (referred to as the "reference period" in (d)) (excluding an employer that dismissed workers because it became impossible to continue the business due to a natural disaster or other unavoidable reason, or for reasons attributable to the workers);

ニthe employer is one that is found to be conducting appropriate employment management, judging from the number, etc. of persons who had been employed at the place of business pertaining to that hiring and separated from service during the reference period, for whom determination of recipient qualification was made during that reference period as specific qualified recipients;

ホthe employer is one that maintains documents clarifying the status of separation of workers from that place of business and the status of payment of wages to the person pertaining to the hiring under (a);

二for each person pertaining to a hiring that falls under (a) of the preceding item: 500,000 yen (600,000 yen for a small and medium-sized enterprise employer) (where it does not meet the standards determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau, the amount calculated by the method determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau).

一the employer is one that falls under all of the following:

イthe employer is one that hires, as a worker to be continuously employed, a job seeker under 65 (excluding a job seeker in workplace adaptation training) who is a person with a developmental disability or has an intractable disease (excluding a person with a physical disability, a person with an intellectual disability or a person with a mental disability), through referral by a Public Employment Security Office or an employment placement service provider, etc. (limited to a person that satisfies the standards determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau);

ロthe employer is an employer other than another employer that is closely related to the employer that had employed the covered worker, in light of the status of stated capital, funds, personnel, transactions, etc.;

ハthe employer is an employer other than one that dismissed workers of the place of business pertaining to the hiring under (a) during the period from the day six months before the day preceding the day of that hiring until the day on which one year has passed from that day six months before (referred to as the "reference period" in (d)) (excluding an employer that dismissed workers because it became impossible to continue the business due to a natural disaster or other unavoidable reason, or for reasons attributable to the workers);

ニthe employer is one that is found to be conducting appropriate employment management, judging from the number, etc. of persons who had been employed at the place of business pertaining to that hiring and separated from service during the reference period, for whom determination of recipient qualification was made during that reference period as specific qualified recipients;

ホthe employer is one that maintains documents clarifying the status of separation of workers from that place of business and the status of payment of wages to the person pertaining to the hiring under (a);

二for each person pertaining to a hiring that falls under (a) of the preceding item: 500,000 yen (1,200,000 yen for a small and medium-sized enterprise employer) (where it does not meet the standards determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau, the amount calculated by the method determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau).