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Article 10-4Order to Return Benefits

第十条の四(返還命令等)

In the case where a person has received payment of the benefits for unemployment, etc. by deception or other wrongful acts, the government may order the person to return the whole or a part of the benefits for unemployment, etc. paid, and may, in accordance with the standards specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, order the person to pay the amount not exceeding an amount equivalent to twice the benefits that were received through deception or other wrongful acts.

偽りその他不正の行為により失業等給付の支給を受けた者がある場合には、政府は、その者に対して、支給した失業等給付の全部又は一部を返還することを命ずることができ、また、厚生労働大臣の定める基準により、当該偽りその他不正の行為により支給を受けた失業等給付の額の二倍に相当する額以下の金額を納付することを命ずることができる。

In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, if benefits for unemployment, etc. were paid due to a false notification, report or certification by the employer, employment placement service provider, etc. (meaning an employment placement agency prescribed in Article 2 of the Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures, and Stabilizing the Employment of Workers, and Enriching Workers' Vocational Lives (Act No. 132 of 1966) or a person who conducts vocational guidance (limited to guidance conducted in accordance with the aptitude, vocational experiences, and other actual circumstances of a person seeking employment) prescribed in in the course of trade (excluding Public Employment Security Offices and other employment security agencies); the same applies hereinafter), person engaged in the business of providing recruitment information, etc. (meaning a person who engages in the provision of recruitment information, etc. prescribed in in the course of trade, and limited to a person who performs the act listed in (limited to cases where it is performed at the request of a person seeking to become a worker); the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph and Article 76, paragraph (2)), or practitioner of specified educational training (meaning a person who conducts educational training specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 60-2, paragraph (1); the same applies hereinafter), the government may order the employer, employment placement service provider, etc., person engaged in the business of providing recruitment information, etc., or practitioner of specified educational training to return the benefits for unemployment, etc., or pay an amount of money, as prescribed in the preceding paragraph, jointly and severally with the person who received payment of the benefits for unemployment, etc.

前項の場合において、事業主、職業紹介事業者等(労働施策の総合的な推進並びに労働者の雇用の安定及び職業生活の充実等に関する法律(昭和四十一年法律第百三十二号)第二条に規定する職業紹介機関又は業としてに規定する職業指導(職業に就こうとする者の適性、職業経験その他の実情に応じて行うものに限る。)を行う者(公共職業安定所その他の職業安定機関を除く。)をいう。以下同じ。)、募集情報等提供事業を行う者(に規定する募集情報等提供を業として行う者をいい、に掲げる行為(労働者になろうとする者の依頼を受けて行う場合に限る。)を行う者に限る。以下この項及び第七十六条第二項において同じ。)又は指定教育訓練実施者(第六十条の二第一項に規定する厚生労働大臣が指定する教育訓練を行う者をいう。以下同じ。)が偽りの届出、報告又は証明をしたためその失業等給付が支給されたものであるときは、政府は、その事業主、職業紹介事業者等、募集情報等提供事業を行う者又は指定教育訓練実施者に対し、その失業等給付の支給を受けた者と連帯して、前項の規定による失業等給付の返還又は納付を命ぜられた金額の納付をすることを命ずることができる。

The provisions of and apply mutatis mutandis to cases where the person concerned has failed to pay an amount of money ordered to be returned or paid pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs.

及びの規定は、前二項の規定により返還又は納付を命ぜられた金額の納付を怠つた場合に準用する。

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