Supplementary Provisions

This Ministerial Order comes into effect as of April 1, 2024.

①The provisions of Article 102-3, paragraph (2) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 apply to leave, etc. (meaning leave, etc. prescribed in Article 102-3, paragraph (1), item (ii), (a) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) or secondment (meaning secondment prescribed in item (ii), (b) of that paragraph; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) whose target period (meaning the target period prescribed in item (ii), (a), (1) of that paragraph; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) has its first day on or after the day of enforcement of this Ministerial Order (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date"), and with regard to leave, etc. or secondment whose target period has its first day before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

②With regard to the payment, to an employer that, before the Effective Date, submitted to the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office the re-employment assistance plan prescribed in Article 102-5, paragraph (2), item (i), (a) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act before amendment by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "former Employment Insurance Ordinance") (referred to simply as the "re-employment assistance plan" in the following paragraph) or submitted to the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau the basic plan for supporting job-seeking activities prescribed in item (ii), (a) of that paragraph (referred to simply as the "basic plan for supporting job-seeking activities" in the following paragraph), of the incentive for the Re-employment Support Course under that paragraph pertaining to that re-employment assistance plan or that basic plan for supporting job-seeking activities, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

③With regard to the payment, to an employer that, before the Effective Date, received the certification of the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office under Article 102-5, paragraph (2), item (i), (a), (1) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance for a re-employment assistance plan, or made the submission under item (ii), (a), (2) of that paragraph for a basic plan for supporting job-seeking activities, and made the hiring under paragraph (7), item (i) of that Article, of the incentive for the Early Hiring Support Course under that paragraph, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

④With regard to the payment, to an employer that, before the Effective Date, submitted to the President of the Japan Organization for Employment of the Elderly, Persons with Disabilities and Job Seekers the plan for conversion to no-fixed-term employment prescribed in Article 104, item (i), (c), (1) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance, of the grant for promoting employment beyond age 65 under that Article pertaining to that plan for conversion to no-fixed-term employment, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

⑤With regard to the payment, to an employer that, before the Effective Date, submitted to the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau the mid-career hiring plan prescribed in Article 110-4, paragraph (2), item (i), (a) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance, of the incentive for the Mid-Career Hiring Expansion Course under that paragraph pertaining to that mid-career hiring plan, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

⑥With regard to the payment, to an employer that, before the Effective Date, submitted to the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau the relocator hiring plan prescribed in Article 110-4, paragraph (3), item (i), (a) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance, of the incentive for the UIJ Turn Course under that paragraph pertaining to that relocator hiring plan, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

⑦With regard to the payment, to an employer that, before the Effective Date, had an eligible male insured person start the childcare leave prescribed in Article 116, paragraph (3), item (i), (a), (2) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance, of the grant for the Work-Family Balance Support at Birth Course under that paragraph, the provisions then in force continue to govern; provided, however, that with regard to the payment, to a small and medium-sized enterprise employer that received payment of the grant for the Work-Family Balance Support at Birth Course under Article 116, paragraph (3) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance for that childcare leave that began before the Effective Date and that, after the Effective Date, had an eligible male insured person start the childcare leave prescribed in Article 116, paragraph (3), item (i), (a), (2) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the "new Employment Insurance Ordinance"), of the grant for the Work-Family Balance Support at Birth Course under that paragraph, deeming a male insured person who started, before the Effective Date, the childcare leave prescribed in Article 116, paragraph (3), item (i), (a), (2) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance to be a male insured person eligible for payment of the grant for the Work-Family Balance Support at Birth Course under the provisions of Article 116, paragraph (3), item (ii), (a), (1) of the new Employment Insurance Ordinance, the provisions of (a), (2) and (3) of that item apply.

⑧With regard to the payment, to an employer that employs an insured person who, before the Effective Date, returned from the childcare leave prescribed in Article 116, paragraph (8), item (i), (b), (1) or (c), (1) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance, of the grant for the Childcare Leave, etc. Support Course under that paragraph, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

⑨With regard to the payment, to an employer that, before the Effective Date, submitted to the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau the introduction and operation plan prescribed in Article 118, paragraph (2), item (i), (c), (2) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance, the plan concerning the development of the personnel evaluation system, etc. under (d), (3) of that item, or the implementation plan prescribed in (f), (2) of that item, of the grant for the Human Resources Securing, etc. Support Course under that paragraph and paragraph (3) of that Article pertaining to that introduction and operation plan, that plan concerning the development of the personnel evaluation system, etc., or that implementation plan, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

⑩With regard to the payment, to an employer or employers' organization, etc. that, before the Effective Date, submitted to the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau the plan under Article 125, paragraph (5), item (i), (a) of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance, of the grant for the Vocational Ability Development for Persons with Disabilities Course under that paragraph pertaining to that plan, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

⑪With regard to the payment, to an employer that, before the Effective Date, had insured persons it employs take paid leave prescribed in Article 17-2-2, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance for a total of five days or more (10 days or more, where the amount specified in item (ii), (b) of that paragraph is paid), of the grant for the Caregiver Turnover Prevention Support Course under that paragraph, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

⑫With regard to the payment, to an employer that, before the Effective Date, had an eligible insured person take the paid leave prescribed in Article 17-2-4, paragraph (1), item (i), (a) or (b) of the Supplementary Provisions of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance, of the grant for the Childcare Leave, etc. Support Course under that paragraph, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

⑬With regard to the payment, to an employer that, before the Effective Date, implemented the self-directed vocational ability development training prescribed in Article 34, paragraph (2), item (i), (b), (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance, of the grant for the Investment in People Promotion Course under that paragraph, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

⑭With regard to the payment, to an employer that, before the Effective Date, came to have a certain number of insured persons to whom the measure prescribed in Article 34, paragraph (2), item (i), (f), (1), (i) of the Supplementary Provisions of the former Employment Insurance Ordinance applies, of the grant for the Investment in People Promotion Course under that paragraph, the provisions then in force continue to govern.