Supplementary Provisions, Article 2Transitional Measures Concerning Employment Stabilization Programs, etc.

①With regard to the payment of the employment adjustment grant pertaining to leave, etc. implemented in the base period for determination or to secondment conducted in the secondment period, where the first day of the base period for determination under Article 102-3, paragraph (1), item (ii), (a), (5) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act before amendment by the provisions of Article 3 or the first day of the secondment period under (b), (3) of that item falls before the day of enforcement of the provision set out in item (ii) of the preceding Article, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

③With regard to the payment of the small and medium-sized enterprise incentive for raising the retirement age, etc. to an employer that, before the Effective Date, took measures falling under any of Article 104, paragraph (2), item (i), (a), (1) through (3) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

④With regard to the payment of the model enterprise grant for employment of elderly persons to an employer that, before the Effective Date, prepared a plan for expanding occupational fields, etc. pursuant to the provisions of Article 104, paragraph (4), item (i), (a) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

⑤With regard to the payment of the grant for creation, etc. of joint employment opportunities for elderly persons, etc. to an employer that, before the day of enforcement of the provision set out in item (ii) of the preceding Article, completed the registration of the establishment of the juridical person under Article 110-2, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act before amendment by the provisions of Article 3, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

⑥With regard to the payment of the incentive for employment of local job seekers to an employer that, before the Effective Date, came to be able to receive, pursuant to Article 112, paragraph (2) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance, payment of the incentive for employment of local job seekers (limited to that pertaining to item (v) of that paragraph; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph), the provisions then in force continue to govern.

⑦With regard to the payment of the grant for small and medium-sized enterprise start-ups for regional revitalization to an employer that came to be able to receive that grant pursuant to Article 112, paragraph (5) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2, before the day of enforcement of the provision set out in item (i) of the preceding Article, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

⑧With regard to the application of Article 112, paragraph (5) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 to an employer that, before the day of enforcement of the provision set out in item (i) of the preceding Article, newly established a juridical person, etc., and that intends to receive payment of the grant for small and medium-sized enterprise start-ups for regional revitalization under that paragraph pertaining to that juridical person, etc., the provisions then in force continue to govern.

⑨With regard to the payment of the incentive for pioneering start-ups, etc. creating employment to an employer that came to be able to receive that incentive pursuant to Article 112, paragraph (9) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

⑩With regard to the application of Article 112, paragraph (9) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance to an employer that implements a project based on a plan pertaining to that project which, before the Effective Date, was prepared by a regional employment creation council prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (2), item (v) of the Act on Promotion of Job Opportunities in Certain Regions (Act No. 23 of 1987) and designated by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

⑪With regard to the payment of the grant for expanding employment through community contribution activities to an employer that came to be able to receive payment of that grant pursuant to Article 112, paragraph (11) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

⑫With regard to the payment of the grant for employment stabilization, etc. for childcare and caregiving (limited to that pertaining to subsidization for the use of services relating to the raising of children or caregiving under Article 116, item (i) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act before amendment by the provisions of Article 4) to an employer that, before the day of enforcement of the provision set out in item (iii) of the preceding Article, came to be able to receive payment of the grant for employment stabilization, etc. for childcare and caregiving pursuant to Article 116, item (i) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act before amendment by the provisions of Article 4 and the provisions of the entry for an employer of a place of business prescribed in Article 116, item (i) of the Employment Insurance Ordinance that has put in order documents clarifying the status of bearing of the costs required for implementing the measures prescribed in that item, in the table of Article 38 of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Act on Childcare Leave, Caregiver Leave, and Other Measures for the Welfare of Workers Caring for Children or Other Family Members before amendment by the provisions of Article 9 (hereinafter referred to as the "former Childcare and Caregiver Leave Ordinance"), the provisions then in force continue to govern.

⑬With regard to the payment of the grant for employment stabilization, etc. for childcare and caregiving (limited to that pertaining to subsidization for the measure for return to the original position, etc. under Article 116, item (ii) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act before amendment by the provisions of Article 4) to an employer that, before the day of enforcement of the provision set out in item (iii) of the preceding Article, came to be able to receive payment of the grant for employment stabilization, etc. for childcare and caregiving pursuant to Article 116, item (ii) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act before amendment by the provisions of Article 4 and the provisions of the entry for an employer of a place of business prescribed in Article 116, item (ii) of the Employment Insurance Ordinance that has put in order documents clarifying the status of implementation of the measures prescribed in that item (limited to one for which a period of five years has not elapsed counting from the day on which a person first returned to the original position, etc. under the measure for return to the original position, etc. prescribed in that item), in the table of Article 38 of the former Childcare and Caregiver Leave Ordinance, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

⑭With regard to the application of Article 117, item (i), (a), (2) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 4 to an employer that has received payment of the grant for employment stabilization, etc. for childcare and caregiving prescribed in Article 116 of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act before amendment by the provisions of Article 4 (limited to that pertaining to subsidization for the measure for return to the original position, etc. under item (ii) of that Article), the phrase "grant for supporting work-family balance in small and medium-sized enterprises (limited to that pertaining to the measure for return to the original position, etc. prescribed in (1))" in that provision is to be read as "grant for employment stabilization, etc. for childcare and caregiving prescribed in Article 116 of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act before amendment by Article 4 of the Ministerial Order Partially Amending the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare No. 48 of 2011) (limited to that pertaining to subsidization for the measure for return to the original position, etc. under item (ii) of that Article)".

⑮With regard to the payment of the grant for employment stabilization, etc. for childcare and caregiving (limited to that pertaining to subsidization for shorter working hours under Article 116, item (iii) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act before amendment by the provisions of Article 4) to an employer that, before the day of enforcement of the provision set out in item (iii) of the preceding Article, came to be able to receive payment of the grant for employment stabilization, etc. for childcare and caregiving pursuant to Article 116, item (iii) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act before amendment by the provisions of Article 4 and the provisions of the entry for an employer of a place of business prescribed in Article 116, item (iii) of the Employment Insurance Ordinance (limited to one for which a period of five years has not elapsed counting from the day on which a worker first used that system), in the table of Article 38 of the former Childcare and Caregiver Leave Ordinance, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

⑯With regard to the payment of the grant for promoting the taking of childcare leave, etc. to an employer that, before the Effective Date, pays benefits in an amount set by itself during the period in which an insured person prescribed in Article 117, paragraph (2), as applied with replaced terms pursuant to Article 17-4, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance, takes childcare leave or works shorter working hours, the provisions then in force continue to govern, limited to payment pertaining to that insured person.

⑰With regard to the payment of the grant for securing core human resources in small and medium-sized enterprises to a small and medium-sized enterprise that, before the Effective Date, submitted the plan under Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Act on the Promotion of Improvement of Employment Management in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises for Securing Manpower and Creating Quality Jobs (Act No. 57 of 1991; hereinafter in this paragraph and paragraph (21) referred to as the "Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Manpower Securing Act"), the provisions then in force continue to govern.

⑱With regard to the payment of the grant for securing core caregiving human resources, etc. under Article 118, paragraph (5) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance to an employer that, before the Effective Date, submitted an improvement plan under Article 8, paragraph (1) of the Act on Improvement of Employment Management and Other Matters for Care Workers (Act No. 63 of 1992), the provisions then in force continue to govern.

⑲With regard to the payment of the incentive for introduction of caregiving employment management systems, etc. to an employer that, before the Effective Date, applied for certification of the application plan for that incentive under Article 118, paragraph (6), item (i) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

⑳With regard to the payment of the grant for securing persons without caregiving experience, etc. to an employer that came to be able to receive that grant pursuant to Article 118, paragraph (7) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

（二十一）With regard to the payment of the grant for projects promoting the securing of human resources in small and medium-sized enterprises to a cooperative, etc. that, before the Effective Date, submitted the plan under Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Manpower Securing Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

（二十二）With regard to the payment of the incentive for employment stabilization in small and medium-sized enterprises to an employer that, before the Effective Date, made the hiring prescribed in Article 118, paragraph (10), item (i), (a) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance, the provisions then in force continue to govern, limited to payment pertaining to a worker hired before the Effective Date pursuant to item (i), (a) of that paragraph.

（二十三）With regard to the payment of the incentive for employment stabilization in small and medium-sized enterprises to an employer that, before the Effective Date, applied to fixed-term contract workers the treatment system common to workers with standard employment statuses prescribed in Article 118, paragraph (10), item (i), (b), (1) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance, or applied to fixed-term contract workers the educational training system common to workers with standard employment statuses prescribed in (c), (1) of that item, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

（二十四）With regard to the payment of the training, etc. support benefit to an employer that came to be able to receive payment of the training, etc. support benefit pursuant to Article 125, paragraph (2), item (i), (b) or (c) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

（二十五）With regard to the payment of the training, etc. support benefit to an employer that, before the Effective Date, commenced eligible certified combined practical training under the provisions of Article 125, paragraph (2), item (i), (a), (3) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance as applied with replaced terms pursuant to Article 17-7, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance (hereinafter referred to as "eligible certified combined practical training"), the provisions then in force continue to govern.

（二十六）With regard to the payment of the training, etc. support benefit under Article 17-7, paragraph (2), item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance to an employer that, before the Effective Date, commenced eligible certified combined practical training under item (i), (a) of that paragraph, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

（二十七）With regard to the payment of the training, etc. support benefit to an employer that, before the Effective Date, received certification of the implementation plan for combined practical training under Article 26-3, paragraph (3) of the Vocational Abilities Development Promotion Act, and that, on or after the Effective Date, made newly hired insured persons, etc. prescribed in Article 125, paragraph (2), item (i), (a), (3) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance (excluding eligible part-time workers, etc. prescribed in (a), (2), (iii) of that item (referred to as "eligible part-time workers, etc." in paragraph (36))) undergo eligible certified combined practical training, that employer is deemed to be an employer falling under Article 125, paragraph (2), item (i), (b), (2), (i) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act as amended by Article 1, and the provisions of that paragraph are applied.

（二十八）With regard to the payment of the benefit for promoting vocational ability evaluation to an employer that came to be able to receive payment of the benefit for promoting vocational ability evaluation pursuant to Article 125, paragraph (3) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

（二十九）With regard to the payment of the grant for ability development for regional employment development to an employer that, before the Effective Date, commenced the eligible vocational training prescribed in Article 125, paragraph (4), item (ii) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance as applied with replaced terms pursuant to Article 17-7, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

（三十）With regard to the payment of the training, etc. support benefit to an employer that, before the Effective Date, commenced eligible fixed-term practical training prescribed in Article 17-7, paragraph (2), item (i), (b) of the Supplementary Provisions of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance (referred to as "eligible fixed-term practical training" in the following paragraph), the provisions then in force continue to govern.

（三十一）With regard to the payment of the training, etc. support benefit to an employer that, before the Effective Date, came to be able to receive payment of the training, etc. support benefit pertaining to eligible fixed-term practical training pursuant to Article 17-7, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance, and that, on or after the Effective Date, made newly hired insured persons, etc. prescribed in Article 125, paragraph (2), item (i), (a), (3) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance (excluding eligible part-time workers, etc.) undergo that eligible fixed-term practical training, that employer is deemed to be an employer falling under Article 125, paragraph (2), item (i), (b), (2), (ii) of the new Employment Insurance Ordinance, and the provisions of that paragraph are applied.

（三十二）With regard to the payment of the grant for employment stabilization, etc. for childcare and caregiving (limited to that pertaining to subsidization for the return-to-work program for persons on childcare leave under Article 139, paragraph (2) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act before amendment by the provisions of Article 4) to an employer or employers' organization that, before the day of enforcement of the provision set out in item (iii) of the preceding Article, came to be able to receive payment of the grant for employment stabilization, etc. for childcare and caregiving pursuant to Article 139, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act before amendment by the provisions of Article 4 and the provisions of the entry, in the table of Article 38 of the former Childcare and Caregiver Leave Ordinance, for an employer or employers' organization prescribed in Article 139, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Employment Insurance Ordinance that has put in order documents clarifying the status of implementation of the return-to-work program for persons on childcare leave (meaning the measure prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article; the same applies hereinafter) (limited to one for which the number of workers eligible for payment of the grant for employment stabilization, etc. for childcare and caregiving (limited to that pertaining to the return-to-work program for persons on childcare leave) in one employer or employers' organization does not exceed 100), the provisions then in force continue to govern.

（三十三）With regard to the application of Article 139, paragraph (1), item (i), (a), (4) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 4 to an employer or employers' organization that has received payment of the grant for employment stabilization, etc. for childcare and caregiving prescribed in Article 139, paragraph (1) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act before amendment by the provisions of Article 4 (limited to that pertaining to the return-to-work program for persons on childcare leave (meaning the measure prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article)), the phrase "grant for supporting work-family balance in small and medium-sized enterprises (limited to that pertaining to a return-to-work program for persons on childcare leave)" in that provision is to be read as "grant for employment stabilization, etc. for childcare and caregiving prescribed in Article 139, paragraph (1) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act before amendment by Article 4 of the Ministerial Order Partially Amending the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare No. 48 of 2011) (limited to that pertaining to the return-to-work program for persons on childcare leave (meaning the measure prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article))".

（三十四）With regard to the payment of the grant for employment stabilization, etc. for childcare and caregiving (limited to that pertaining to subsidization for the program for returning workers from caregiver leave under Article 139, paragraph (3) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act before amendment by the provisions of Article 4) to an employer or employers' organization that, before the day of enforcement of the provision set out in item (iii) of the preceding Article, came to be able to receive payment of the grant for employment stabilization, etc. for childcare and caregiving pursuant to Article 139, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act before amendment by the provisions of Article 4 and the provisions of the entry, in the table of Article 38 of the former Childcare and Caregiver Leave Ordinance, for an employer or employers' organization prescribed in Article 139, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Employment Insurance Ordinance that has put in order documents clarifying the status of implementation of the program for returning workers from caregiver leave (meaning the measure prescribed in paragraph (3) of that Article; the same applies hereinafter) (limited to one for which the number of workers eligible for payment of the grant for employment stabilization, etc. for childcare and caregiving (limited to that pertaining to the program for returning workers from caregiver leave) in one employer or employers' organization does not exceed 100), the provisions then in force continue to govern.

（三十五）With regard to the application of Article 139, paragraph (1), item (i), (b), (4) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 4 to an employer or employers' organization that has received payment of the grant for employment stabilization, etc. for childcare and caregiving prescribed in Article 139, paragraph (1) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act before amendment by the provisions of Article 4 (limited to that pertaining to the program for returning workers from caregiver leave (meaning the measure prescribed in paragraph (3) of that Article)), the phrase "grant for supporting work-family balance in small and medium-sized enterprises (limited to that pertaining to a program for returning workers from caregiver leave)" in that provision is to be read as "grant for employment stabilization, etc. for childcare and caregiving prescribed in Article 139, paragraph (1) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act before amendment by Article 4 of the Ministerial Order Partially Amending the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare No. 48 of 2011) (limited to that pertaining to the program for returning workers from caregiver leave (meaning the measure prescribed in paragraph (3) of that Article))".

（三十六）With regard to the payment of the grant for emergency employment stabilization in small and medium-sized enterprises pertaining to leave, etc. implemented in the base period for determination or to secondment conducted in the secondment period, where the first day of the base period for determination under Article 15, paragraph (2), item (ii), (a), (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act before amendment by the provisions of Article 3 or the first day of the secondment period under (b), (3) of that item falls before the day of enforcement of the provision set out in item (ii) of the preceding Article, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

（三十七）With regard to the payment of the grant for childcare support for small and medium-sized enterprises to an employer that came to be able to receive payment of the grant for childcare support for small and medium-sized enterprises prescribed in Article 17-3 of the Supplementary Provisions of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

（三十九）With regard to the application of Article 38 of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Act on Childcare Leave, Caregiver Leave, and Other Measures for the Welfare of Workers Caring for Children or Other Family Members before amendment by the provisions of Article 8 to an employer that came to be able to receive payment of the grant for employment stabilization, etc. for childcare and caregiving (limited to that pertaining to subsidization for the implementation of shorter working hours under Article 116, item (iii) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance) before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

（四十）With regard to the payment of the grant for promoting balanced treatment of part-time workers, etc. to an employer that, before the Effective Date, came to be able to receive payment of that grant pursuant to Article 118-2 of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance, Article 26 of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act before amendment by Article 5, or Article 13 of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Act on Improvement, etc. of Employment Management for Part-Time Workers before amendment by the provisions of Article 11, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

（四十一）With regard to the payment of the incentive for promoting balanced treatment and conversion to regular employee status prescribed in Article 13 of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Act on Improvement, etc. of Employment Management for Part-Time Workers as amended by the provisions of Article 11 (limited to that pertaining to an employer falling under paragraph (1), item (ii) of that Article; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) to an employer that has received payment of the incentive for employment stabilization in small and medium-sized enterprises prescribed in Article 118, paragraph (1) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance (limited to that pertaining to a small and medium-sized enterprise employer falling under paragraph (10), item (i), (a) of that Article; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph), the provisions of Article 13, paragraph (2), item (ii) or (iii) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Act on Improvement, etc. of Employment Management for Part-Time Workers as amended by the provisions of Article 11 are applied by deeming the payment of the incentive for employment stabilization in small and medium-sized enterprises to be the payment of the incentive for promoting balanced treatment and conversion to regular employee status.

（四十二）With regard to the payment of the incentive for promoting balanced treatment and conversion to regular employee status prescribed in Article 13 of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Act on Improvement, etc. of Employment Management for Part-Time Workers after amendment (limited to that pertaining to an employer falling under paragraph (1), item (ii) of that Article; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) to an employer that has received payment of the incentive for employment stabilization in small and medium-sized enterprises prescribed in Article 118, paragraph (1) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance (limited to that pertaining to a small and medium-sized enterprise employer falling under paragraph (10), item (i), (a) of that Article; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) or the grant for promoting balanced treatment of part-time workers, etc. prescribed in Article 13 of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Act on Improvement, etc. of Employment Management for Part-Time Workers before amendment by the provisions of Article 11 (limited to that pertaining to an employer falling under paragraph (2), item (iii) of that Article; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph), the provisions of Article 13, paragraph (2), item (ii) or (iii) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Act on Improvement, etc. of Employment Management for Part-Time Workers after amendment are applied by deeming the payment of the incentive for employment stabilization in small and medium-sized enterprises or the grant for promoting balanced treatment of part-time workers, etc. to be the payment of the incentive for promoting balanced treatment and conversion to regular employee status.