一providing necessary aid and assistance for employers who lay off workers or take other measures necessary for stabilizing worker employment in the case where the employer have been compelled to curtail business activities due to business fluctuations, changes in the industrial structure, or other economic reasons;

二providing necessary aid and assistance for employers who provide leave under the provisions of Article 26, paragraph (1) of the Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures, and Stabilizing the Employment of Workers, and Enriching Workers' Vocational Lives to workers who have been compelled to be separated from service or for employers who take other measures necessary for promoting the re-employment of those workers;

三providing necessary aid and assistance for the employers who raise the mandatory retirement age, extend the employment of the elderly such as through introducing the continuous employment system prescribed in Article 9 of the Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons (Act No. 68 of 1971) or implementing the measures to secure employment opportunities for the elderly prescribed in Article 10-2, paragraph (4) of the same Act, assist the elderly persons, etc. prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the same Act (hereinafter referred to simply as "elderly persons, etc." in this item) with their re-employment, or hire elderly persons, etc., and for employers who take other measures necessary for stabilizing the employment of elderly persons, etc.;

四implementing, among the programs prescribed in Article 34, paragraph (2), item (iii) of the Act on Employment Security of Elderly Persons pertaining to the regional plan for securing employment opportunities for elderly persons prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article to which consent under the same paragraph has been given (when consent to a change under the provisions of paragraph (4) of the same Article has been given, the plan after the change; referred to as an "approved regional plan for securing employment opportunities for elderly persons" in paragraph (1), item (viii) of the following Article), those related to the stabilization of employment;

五providing necessary aid and assistance to employers who newly employ workers through relocating their places of business to areas where there is a need for increased employment opportunities, employers who employ, throughout the year, persons who become unemployed on a seasonal basis in areas where many such persons reside, or employers who take other measures necessary for stabilizing worker employment in areas where improvement in the conditions related to employment is necessary; and

六beyond what is set forth in the preceding items, other programs, specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, which are necessary for promoting the employment of physically disabled persons and others having particular difficulty in finding employment, for promoting the employment of workers in the case where the status of employment has become unstable nationwide and for stabilizing the employment of insured persons, etc.