Article 49Levy-Related Operations

一paying employers (excluding special public corporations; hereinafter the same applies in this Section and Section 5) that fall under the provisions of paragraph (1) of the following Article the monetary adjustments for the employment of persons with disabilities referred to in that paragraph;

二paying employers that hire qualifying disabled persons as workers or employers that employ qualifying disabled workers a subsidy that is meant to cover the expenses required to install or maintain the facilities or equipment the employer needs in order to hire or continue to employ these persons;

三paying employers that employ qualifying disabled workers or employers' associations that such employers belong to a subsidy that is meant to cover the expenses required to install or maintain facilities that increase the welfare of qualifying disabled workers;

四paying employers that employ qualifying disabled workers and that do one of the following things a subsidy that is meant to cover the expenses that doing so requires:

イtaking measures that are meant to make it easier for a worker who has come to be a person with a physical or mental disability to adapt to the workplace, and that are necessary in order for the employer to continue to employ that worker;

ロtaking measures that are meant to make it easier for a worker who is a qualifying disabled person and who has come to find it difficult to adapt to the workplace due to physical and mental changes accompanying aging to adapt to the workplace, and that are necessary in order to continue to employ that worker;

ハassigning a person to provide the needed assistance associated with the employment of qualifying disabled workers and to carry out other operations that are necessary in order to stabilize employment for them (excluding operations that are meant to facilitate the commutes of qualifying disabled workers) (excluding assignment of a person as set forth in (b) of the following item).

四の二paying persons that provide assistance for qualifying disabled persons through a workplace adaptation aide, as follows, a subsidy that is meant to cover the expenses that doing this requires:

イa program for assisting people through a workplace adaptation aide that is implemented by a social welfare corporation provided for in Article 22 of the Social Welfare Act or by any other corporation that implements projects to facilitate the employment of qualifying disabled persons;

ロthe assignment, by an employer that employs qualifying disabled workers, of workplace adaptation aides who provide the necessary assistance associated with the employment of qualifying disabled workers;

五paying employers that employ persons with physical disabilities (limited to the persons with severe physical disabilities and other persons with physical disabilities provided for by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; hereinafter the same applies in this item), persons with intellectual disabilities, or persons with mental disabilities, or employers' associations that such employers belong to a subsidy that is meant to cover the expenses required for measures to facilitate the commutes of workers with physical, intellectual, or mental disabilities;

六paying employers of places of business that employ many workers who are persons with severe physical disabilities, persons with intellectual disabilities, or persons with mental disabilities a subsidy that is meant to cover the expenses required to install or maintain facilities or equipment that is used for business at those places of business;

七paying the following persons that implement education and training programs that are meant to develop and enhance the abilities that qualifying disabled persons need in their work (limited to those that conform to the criteria specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare; hereinafter the same applies in this item) a subsidy that is meant to cover the expenses required for those programs, and paying employers that employ qualifying disabled workers a subsidy that is meant to cover the expenses required for measures to make it easier for qualifying disabled workers to participate in education and training programs:

イan employer or employers' association;

ロan incorporated educational institution provided for in Article 3 of the Private Schools Act (Act No. 270 of 1949) that establishes a specialized training college provided for in Article 124 of the School Education Act (Act No. 26 of 1947) or a miscellaneous category school provided for in Article 134, paragraph (1) of the School Education Act, or a corporation provided for in Article 152, paragraph (5) of the Private Schools Act;

ハa social welfare corporation provided for in Article 22 of the Social Welfare Act;

ニany other corporation that implements a project to facilitate the employment of qualifying disabled persons.

七の二paying persons that carry out a project of assistance concerning the whole series of personnel management steps for qualifying disabled persons, which is necessary in order to hire qualifying disabled persons and continue to employ them, a subsidy that is meant to cover the expenses required for that project of assistance;

八carrying out operations related to skills competitions for persons with disabilities;

九carrying out operations for studies, surveys, or training courses on technical matters involved in the employment of qualifying disabled persons or awareness-raising operations that are meant to increase understanding among employers and the general public regarding the employment of qualifying disabled persons (excluding the operations set forth in the preceding item);

十collecting the persons with disabilities employment levy provided for in Article 53, paragraph (1);

十一carrying out operations incidental to those set forth in each of the preceding items.