Supplementary Provisions

This Ministerial Order comes into effect as of the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions amending Article 15-4-5 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect as of October 1, 2022.

The provisions of Article 15-4-5 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act as amended by this Ministerial Order (hereinafter referred to as the "New Ordinance") apply to secondment, or post-return training prescribed in Article 15-4-5, paragraph (2), item (iii) of the Supplementary Provisions of the New Ordinance (hereinafter referred to as "training"), carried out for a day on or after October 1, 2022, and, except where payment is made pursuant to the following Article, with regard to secondment or training carried out for a day on or before September 30 of the same year, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

The industrial employment stabilization grant is paid, in accordance with the provisions of Article 15-4-5 of the Supplementary Provisions of the New Ordinance, with an upper limit of 500 persons, for the secondment period from the day following the day on which one year has passed counting from the day on which the secondment (limited to a secondment that falls under all of Article 15-4-5, paragraph (2), item (i), (a) through (e) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act; hereinafter simply referred to as "secondment") was made until September 30, 2022, being a secondment period specified in a secondment plan notified to the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau by September 30, 2022; provided, however, that this does not apply where the secondment has ended on or before September 30 of the same year.

The provisions of Article 15-4-5, paragraph (10) of the Supplementary Provisions of the New Ordinance apply to an employer that hires a person who was seconded under a secondment plan notified to the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau on or after October 1, 2022, and, with regard to an employer that hired a person who was seconded under a secondment plan notified to the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau by September 30 of the same year (limited to an employer that, at the time of that hiring, was implementing leave, etc. prescribed in Article 102-3, paragraph (1), item (ii), (a) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act for insured persons of its own place of business at which the person so seconded is to engage in work), the provisions then in force continue to govern.