①The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must hear the opinions of the Labor Policy Council in advance when seeking to establish the standards referred to in Article 24-2, paragraph (1), item (ii), Article 25, paragraph (1), or Article 27, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) by Cabinet Order; when seeking to establish, by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the reasons referred to in Article 13, paragraph (1), Article 20, paragraph (1) or (2), Article 22, paragraph (2), Article 37-3, paragraph (1), Article 39, paragraph (1), Article 60-3, paragraph (1), item (i) or paragraph (3), Article 61-4, paragraph (1), Article 61-7, paragraph (1) (including as applied following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to paragraph (4) of the same Article), Article 61-8, paragraph (1), Article 61-10, paragraph (1), item (i) (including as applied following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to paragraph (5) of the same Article) or Article 61-12, paragraph (1) (including as applied following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to paragraph (4) of the same Article), the persons referred to in Article 13, paragraph (3), Article 20-2 or Article 24-2, paragraph (1), the calculation method referred to in Article 18, paragraph (3), the business referred to in Article 20-2, the standards referred to in Article 24-2, paragraph (1) or Article 56-3, paragraph (1), the disaster referred to in Article 24-2, paragraph (1), item (iii), the number of hours referred to in Article 37-5, paragraph (1), item (iii), the persons who have difficulty in finding employment as referred to in Article 56-3, paragraph (1), item (ii), the cases referred to in Article 61-7, paragraph (2) or Article 61-10, paragraph (3), item (ii), or the day referred to in Article 61-7, paragraph (1) as applied following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to paragraph (4) of the same Article, Article 61-10, paragraph (1), item (i) as applied following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to paragraph (5) of the same Article, or Article 61-12, paragraph (1) as applied following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to paragraph (4) of the same Article; when seeking to specify the standards referred to in Article 10-4, paragraph (1), Article 25, paragraph (3), Article 26, paragraph (2), Article 29, paragraph (2), Article 32, paragraph (3) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 37-4, paragraph (6) and Article 40, paragraph (4)), Article 33, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 37-4, paragraph (6) and Article 40, paragraph (4)), or Article 52, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 55, paragraph (4)), or the number of hours referred to in Article 38, paragraph (1), item (ii); or when making decisions on other important matters pertaining to the implementation of this Act.

②In addition to responding to consultations from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare's, the Labor Policy Council may, as necessary, make proposals to the relevant administrative authorities, or may require their reports, concerning the administration of the employment insurance services.

An employer may not dismiss workers or treat them in a disadvantageous manner on the grounds of their having required confirmation under the provisions of Article 8 or having made an application under the provisions of Article 37-5, paragraph (1).

①The right to receive payment of the benefits for unemployment, etc. and childcare leave benefits, etc., or to obtain a refund of the benefits and the right to collect an amount which has been ordered to be paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 10-4, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 61-6, paragraph (5)) is extinguished by prescription when two years have elapsed from the time when those rights become exercisable.

②If, due to the revision of the average earnings for a fiscal year, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has changed the amount subject to automatic changing prescribed in Article 18, paragraph (4), the amount of deduction prescribed in Article 19, paragraph (1), item (i), or the payment amount limit prescribed in Article 61, paragraph (1), item (ii) or Article 61-12, paragraph (2), and there are benefits for unemployment, etc. and childcare leave benefits, etc. whose amounts have been recalculated due to the change, the provisions of Article 31, paragraph (1) of the Public Accounting Act (Act No. 35 of 1947) do not apply to the right to receive payment of the unpaid benefits for unemployment, etc. and childcare leave benefits, etc. under the provisions of Article 10-3 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 61-6, paragraph (5)) pertaining to those benefits for unemployment, etc. and childcare leave benefits, etc.

The mayor of municipality (including the mayor of a special ward, and, in the designated cities referred to in Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947), the mayor of a ward or the mayor of a comprehensive ward), as prescribed by the ordinance of the municipality (including a special ward), may issue a certificate concerning the family register of a person who receives payment of the job applicant benefits or employment promotion benefits to the administrative authority or to the person who receives payment of the job applicant benefits or employment promotion benefits, free of charge.

①An administrative authority may, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, order an employer who is found to employ or to have employed insured persons or qualified recipients, elderly qualified recipients, specially qualified recipients or qualified day worker recipients (hereinafter referred to as "qualified recipients, etc.") or educational training benefit recipients, a labor insurance affairs association or an organization that was a labor insurance affairs association, to make a report, submit a document or make an appearance as may be necessary for the implementation of this Act.

②An administrative authority may, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, order an employer who seeks to employ qualified recipients, etc., an employment placement service provider, etc. who conducts employment placement services or vocational guidance for qualified recipients, etc., a person engaged in the business of providing recruitment information, etc., or a practitioner of specified educational training who conducts the educational training prescribed in Article 60-2, paragraph (1) for educational training benefit recipients, to make a report or submit a document as may be necessary for the implementation of this Act.

③Those who have been separated from service may, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, request a previous employer or a labor insurance affairs association conducting affairs concerning the issuance of certificates necessary for receiving payment of the job applicant benefits, as a part of the labor insurance-related affairs prescribed in Article 33, paragraph (1) of the Premiums Collection Act, to issue a certificate necessary for receiving payment of the job applicant benefits. The employer or labor insurance affairs association when so required, must issue the certificate as required.

④The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to a request concerning the issuance of certificates necessary for receiving payment of the educational training benefits, continuous employment benefits or childcare leave benefits, etc. In this case, the phrases "those who have been separated from service" and "previous employer" in the preceding paragraph are deemed to be replaced, respectively, with "insured persons or those who were insured persons" and "employer who employed the insured persons or those who were insured persons".

An administrative authority may order an insured person, qualified recipient, etc., educational training benefit recipient, or person requiring payment of the unpaid part of the benefits for unemployment, etc. and childcare leave benefits, etc., to make a report, submit a document or make an appearance, as may be necessary for the implementation of this Act.

①An administrative authority may request the relevant administrative organs or public or private organizations to provide materials or otherwise cooperate as necessary for the implementation of this Act.

②The relevant administrative organs or public or private organizations requested to cooperate pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must meet requests to the fullest extent possible.