Supplementary Provisions, Article 15-4-3

①With regard to the target period (referred to as the "special target period" in paragraphs (2), (6) and (8)) pertaining to an employer that falls under Article 102-3, paragraph (1), item (i), (a) (limited to an employer that received payment of an employment adjustment grant pursuant to paragraph (1) of that Article or the preceding Article during the period from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024 and that has a place of business located in the jurisdictional areas of the Nanao Public Employment Security Office and the Wajima Public Employment Security Office (hereinafter in this Article and the following Article referred to as the "target area")), whose target period under Article 102-3, paragraph (1), item (ii), (a), (1) (hereinafter in this paragraph and paragraphs (7) and (8) simply referred to as the "target period") begins on a day in the period from January 1, 2025 until the day on which two months have passed counting from that day, and that has been abruptly compelled to curtail business activities due to economic reasons accompanying the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake and the September 2024 Heavy Rain (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "Noto earthquake and heavy rain disaster"), and that, among such employers, carries out efforts to promote secondment as provided by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau (such an employer is hereinafter referred to as an "employer affected by the Noto earthquake and heavy rain disaster" in this Article), the provisions of the proviso to paragraph (3) of that Article do not apply.

②The number of days of leave, etc. prescribed in Article 102-3, paragraph (1), item (ii), (a) implemented during the special target period (limited to leave, etc. for which an employment adjustment grant is paid; hereinafter in paragraphs (4) through (8) simply referred to as "leave, etc.") is not included in the number of payment days on or after the first day of the target period of the reference employment adjustment grant prescribed in the proviso to paragraph (3) of that Article.

③For the application of Article 102-3, paragraph (1), item (ii) to an employer affected by the Noto earthquake and heavy rain disaster, the phrase "an insured person whose period of continuous employment as an insured person with that employer, as of the day before the first day of the base period for determination prescribed in (5), is less than six months, insured persons, etc. who have been given notice of dismissal" in (a) of that item is deemed to be replaced with "insured persons, etc. who have been given notice of dismissal", and the phrase "one year counting from the day designated by that employer at the time of the notification under the following item (for an employer that has previously received payment of an employment adjustment grant as falling under (a) of the preceding item, limited to where that designated day is more than one year counting from the day following the later of the following days (limited to days within the immediately preceding target period of that employer))" with "one year counting from the day designated by that employer at the time of the notification under the following item (where the day designated by that employer is on or after January 2, 2025, from the day designated by that employer until December 31, 2025)".

④With regard to leave, etc. of covered insured persons prescribed in Article 102-3, paragraph (1), item (ii), (a) as applied with replaced terms pursuant to the preceding paragraph (hereinafter in the following paragraph and paragraph (6) simply referred to as "covered insured persons"), at a place of business located within the target area at the time of the Noto earthquake and heavy rain disaster, implemented by an employer affected by the Noto earthquake and heavy rain disaster, notwithstanding paragraph (2), item (i) of that Article, the amount obtained by adding training expenses according to the number of days on which the educational training prescribed in item (ii), (a) of paragraph (1) of that Article was conducted to 2/3 (4/5 for a small and medium-sized enterprise employer) of the amount calculated by the method determined by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as an amount equivalent to the amount of allowances or wages paid to covered insured persons pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2), item (i) of that Article for that leave, etc. (where the amount obtained by dividing that 2/3 (or 4/5) amount by the number of days forming the basis of payment of those allowances exceeds the maximum daily basic allowance amount, the amount obtained by multiplying the maximum daily basic allowance amount by that number of days) is to be paid.

⑤For the application of Article 102-3, paragraph (1), item (ii) and the main clause of Article 102-3, paragraph (3) to leave, etc. of covered insured persons at a place of business located within the target area at the time of the Noto earthquake and heavy rain disaster, implemented by an employer affected by the Noto earthquake and heavy rain disaster, the phrase "1/15" in (a), (5) of item (ii) of paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "1/30", the phrase "1/20" with "1/40", and the phrase "reaches 100" in the main clause of paragraph (3) of that Article with "reaches 300".

⑥With regard to leave, etc. of covered insured persons, being leave, etc. whose base period for determination begins on a day in the period from September 20, 2024 to December 31, 2024 (limited to leave, etc. implemented on or before December 31, 2024), at a place of business located within the target area at the time of the Noto earthquake and heavy rain disaster, implemented by an employer affected by the Noto earthquake and heavy rain disaster (limited to an employer that received payment of an employment adjustment grant for leave, etc. paid as falling under Article 102-3, paragraph (1), item (i), (a) during the special target period), notwithstanding paragraph (2), item (i) of that Article, the amount obtained by adding training expenses according to the number of days on which the educational training prescribed in item (ii), (a) of paragraph (1) of that Article was conducted to 2/3 (4/5 for a small and medium-sized enterprise employer) of the amount calculated by the method determined by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as an amount equivalent to the amount of allowances or wages paid to covered insured persons pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2), item (i) of that Article for that leave, etc. (where the amount obtained by dividing that 2/3 (or 4/5) amount by the number of days forming the basis of payment of those allowances exceeds the maximum daily basic allowance amount, the amount obtained by multiplying the maximum daily basic allowance amount by that number of days) is to be paid.

⑦The number of days pertaining to the leave, etc. in the preceding paragraph is not included in the number of payment days on or after the first day of the target period of the reference employment adjustment grant prescribed in the proviso to Article 102-3, paragraph (3).

⑧The provisions of the preceding paragraphs do not apply to another target period where the first day of that other target period falls within the period of six months counting from the first day of the special target period or of the leave, etc. in paragraph (6).