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The qualification to receive the basic allowance (基本手当) under Article 13, paragraph (1) (including as read under its paragraph (2)), which turns on how long a person who has become unemployed was insured before separating from service.
前条第一項（同条第二項において読み替えて適用する場合を含む。）の規定により基本手当の支給を受けることができる資格
受給資格者
A person who holds the recipient qualification (受給資格) — the qualification to receive the basic allowance (基本手当) under Article 13.
被保険者
A worker employed in a covered business (適用事業), other than the persons listed in the items of Article 6.
適用事業に雇用される労働者であつて、第六条各号に掲げる者以外のもの
The date Act No. 54 of 1984, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
The date Act No. 36 of 1989, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
The date Act No. 57 of 1994, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
The date Act No. 59 of 2000, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
The date Act No. 35 of 2001, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
The date Act No. 31 of 2003, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
The date Act No. 30 of 2007, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
The date Act No. 5 of 2009, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
The date Act No. 15 of 2010, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
The date Act No. 46 of 2011, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
The date Act No. 13 of 2014, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
The date Act No. 17 of 2016, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
The date Act No. 14 of 2017, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
The date Act No. 14 of 2020, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
The date Act No. 26 of 2024, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
The ending of an insured person's employment relationship with their employer.
被保険者について、事業主との雇用関係が終了すること
The state of an insured person (被保険者) who has separated from service and, though willing and able to work, cannot find a job.
被保険者が離職し、労働の意思及び能力を有するにもかかわらず、職業に就くことができない状態にあること
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 54 of 1984.
This Act as amended by Article 2 of Act No. 8 of 1992.
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 57 of 1994.
This Act as amended by Article 2 of Act No. 42 of 1996.
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 19 of 1998.
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 59 of 2000.
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 31 of 2003.
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 46 of 2011.
This Act as amended by Article 5 of Act No. 58 of 2021.
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 26 of 2024, leaving out the amendments listed in items (i) and (ii) of Article 1 of that Act's supplementary provisions (附則).
This Act as amended by Article 13 of Act No. 47 of 2024.
賃金
Everything an employer pays a worker in return for work, whatever it is called — wages, salary, allowances, bonuses — except payments in something other than money that fall outside the range a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets.
賃金、給料、手当、賞与その他名称のいかんを問わず、労働の対償として事業主が労働者に支払うもの（通貨以外のもので支払われるものであつて、厚生労働省令で定める範囲外のものを除く。）
育児休業
Leave an insured person (other than a specially insured person in short-term employment or an insured day worker) takes, as a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) provides, to raise a child under one — or under 18 months, or two years, where such an Order finds leave beyond that especially needed to keep the job — including a child in special adoption proceedings (特別養子縁組) or placed with them as a prospective adoptive foster parent; the childcare leave benefits (育児休業給付金) are paid for it.
The daily amount of wages under Article 17: the wages paid in the last six months counted as insured period within the period for calculation (算定対象期間), leaving out irregular payments and those paid at intervals of more than three months, divided by 180.
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 54 of 1984, a qualified recipient of the basic allowance (基本手当) whose separation from service (離職) for that qualification was before that Act came into effect.
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 8 of 1992, a qualified recipient whose separation from service (離職) for their recipient qualification was before 1 October 1992.
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 57 of 1994, a qualified recipient of the basic allowance (基本手当) whose separation from service (離職) for that qualification was before that Act came into effect.
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 59 of 2000, a qualified recipient of the basic allowance (基本手当) whose separation from service (離職) for that qualification was before that Act came into effect.
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 31 of 2003, a qualified recipient of the basic allowance (基本手当) whose separation from service (離職) for that qualification was before that Act came into effect.
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 46 of 2011, a qualified recipient of the basic allowance (基本手当) whose separation from service (離職) for that qualification was before that Act came into effect.
In the Subsection of this Act on the basic allowance (基本手当) (Chapter III, Section 2, Subsection 1), the day of separation from service (離職) on which a qualified recipient's recipient qualification (受給資格) is based.
In the Subsection of this Act on the basic allowance (基本手当) (Chapter III, Section 2, Subsection 1), the day of separation from service (離職) on which a qualified recipient's recipient qualification (受給資格) is based.
In Article 60-2, the day a person starts the educational training (教育訓練) for which the educational training benefits (教育訓練給付金) are claimed.
In Article 4, paragraph (2) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 57 of 1994, the day of separation from service (離職) on which a qualified recipient's recipient qualification (受給資格) is based.
The number of days for which the basic allowance (基本手当) is paid on one recipient qualification (受給資格), set by Article 22, paragraph (1) — 90, 120 or 150 days depending on the qualified recipient's basic period for calculation (算定基礎期間) — or by the provisions that set it otherwise for certain qualified recipients.
The number of days for which the basic allowance (基本手当) is paid on one recipient qualification (受給資格), set by Article 22, paragraph (1) — 90, 120 or 150 days depending on the qualified recipient's basic period for calculation (算定基礎期間) — or by the provisions that set it otherwise for certain qualified recipients.
雇用保険法第二十二条第一項に規定する所定給付日数
The year running from 1 April to 31 March of the following year.
四月一日から翌年の三月三十一日まで
基礎期間
The six consecutive months, under Article 53, paragraph (1), in which stamp premiums (印紙保険料) were paid for an insured day worker (日雇労働被保険者) for 11 days or more each month and 78 days or more in all, during whose last five months they received no job applicant benefits for day workers (日雇労働求職者給付金) under Article 45.
The qualification of a specially insured person in short-term employment (短期雇用特例被保険者) who has become unemployed to receive the special lump-sum payment (特例一時金) under Article 39, paragraph (1).
被保険者期間
In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 14 of 2020, the insured period counted under Article 14, paragraph (1): the time a person was insured, counted back from the day they ceased to be insured in one-month blocks, each counting only if wages were paid for 11 days or more in it.
雇用保険法第十四条第一項に規定する被保険者期間
改正後雇用保険法
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 14 of 2020.
The qualification of an elderly insured person (高年齢被保険者) who has become unemployed to receive the job applicant benefits for the elderly (高年齢求職者給付金) under Article 37-3, paragraph (1).
日雇労働被保険者
A day worker (日雇労働者) who is insured and who lives in a covered area (適用区域) and works for a covered business (適用事業), lives outside one but works for a covered business inside it, works outside one for a covered business the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has designated, or has been approved by the chief of the Public Employment Security Office (公共職業安定所長); the job applicant benefits for day workers (日雇労働求職者給付金) are paid when they become unemployed.
介護休業
Leave an insured person (被保険者) takes, as a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) provides, to care for an applicable family member (対象家族); the nursing care leave benefits (介護休業給付金) are paid for it.
出生後休業
Leave an insured person takes, as a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) provides, to raise their child within the target period (対象期間) that Article 61-10, paragraph (7) sets; the post-birth leave support benefits (出生後休業支援給付金) are paid for it when the conditions of Article 61-10 are met.
出生後休業
Leave an insured person takes, as a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) provides, to raise their child within the target period (対象期間) that Article 61-10, paragraph (7) sets; the post-birth leave support benefits (出生後休業支援給付金) are paid for it when the conditions of Article 61-10 are met.
次条第一項に規定する出生後休業
Short name for the Act on the Collection, etc. of Insurance Premiums of Labor Insurance (Act No. 84 of 1969), which Article 5, paragraph (2) makes govern when the insurance relationship (保険関係) for a covered business (適用事業) arises and ends.
The Public Employment Security Office (公共職業安定所)'s recognition that a person was unemployed on given days, which they must obtain for the benefit to be paid for those days — the basic allowance (基本手当) under Article 15, and the job applicant benefits for day workers (日雇労働求職者給付金) under Article 47.
The Public Employment Security Office (公共職業安定所)'s recognition that a person was unemployed on given days, which they must obtain for the benefit to be paid for those days — the basic allowance (基本手当) under Article 15, and the job applicant benefits for day workers (日雇労働求職者給付金) under Article 47.
A person who holds the special recipient qualification (特例受給資格): a specially insured person in short-term employment (短期雇用特例被保険者) who has become unemployed and can receive the special lump-sum payment (特例一時金) under Article 39.
印紙保険料
The stamp premiums listed in Article 10, paragraph (2), item (iv) of the Act on the Collection, etc. of Insurance Premiums of Labor Insurance: a premium paid for each day of work of an insured day worker (日雇労働被保険者), at one of three amounts that Article 22 of that Act sets according to the worker's daily wage.
A person who holds the special recipient qualification (特例受給資格): a specially insured person in short-term employment (短期雇用特例被保険者) who has become unemployed and can receive the special lump-sum payment (特例一時金) under Article 39.
雇用保険法第三十九条第二項に規定する特例受給資格者
Vocational training at public human resources development facilities (公共職業能力開発施設) set up by the national government, prefectures, municipalities or the Japan Organization for Employment of the Elderly, Persons with Disabilities and Job Seekers (独立行政法人高齢・障害・求職者雇用支援機構), including training at the Polytechnic University (職業能力開発総合大学校); authorized vocational training (認定職業訓練) under Article 4, paragraph (2) of the Act on Support for the Employment of Specified Job Seekers through Implementation of Vocational Training, etc., other than kinds a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) excludes; and other training or courses given under laws to help unemployed people adapt to work or learn the knowledge and skills a job needs, as a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.
国、都道府県及び市町村並びに独立行政法人高齢・障害・求職者雇用支援機構が設置する公共職業能力開発施設の行う職業訓練（職業能力開発総合大学校の行うものを含む。）、職業訓練の実施等による特定求職者の就職の支援に関する法律（平成二十三年法律第四十七号）第四条第二項に規定する認定職業訓練（厚生労働省令で定めるものを除く。）その他法令の規定に基づき失業者に対して作業環境に適応することを容易にさせ、又は就職に必要な知識及び技能を習得させるために行われる訓練又は講習であつて、政令で定めるもの
The period Article 22, paragraph (3) sets for counting how long a qualified recipient was insured: their unbroken employment as an insured person with the same employer up to the day of separation, added to earlier insured time, leaving out time before a gap of more than a year, time before an earlier basic allowance or special lump-sum payment was claimed, and certain periods of leave; the prescribed duration of benefits (所定給付日数) depends on it.
高年齢受給資格者
A person who holds the recipient qualification for the elderly (高年齢受給資格): an elderly insured person (高年齢被保険者) who has become unemployed and can receive the job applicant benefits for the elderly (高年齢求職者給付金).
高年齢受給資格者
In Articles 5 and 6 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 17 of 2016, an elderly qualified recipient as defined in Article 37-3, paragraph (2) of this Act as amended by Article 2 of that Act.
第二条改正後雇用保険法第三十七条の三第二項に規定する高年齢受給資格者
Leave a generally insured person (一般被保険者) takes, as a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) provides, to receive job-related educational training (教育訓練); the educational training leave benefits (教育訓練休暇給付金) are paid for days of it.
支給単位期間
In Article 61-4, each of the month-long blocks into which a period of family care leave (介護休業), up to three months from its start, is divided, each running from the day the leave began, or the corresponding absence commencement day (休業開始応当日) in a later month, to the day before the next month's corresponding day (or to the day the leave ended); the nursing care leave benefits (介護休業給付金) are paid for each block.
介護休業をした期間（当該介護休業を開始した日から起算して三月を経過する日までの期間に限る。）を、当該介護休業を開始した日又は各月においてその日に応当し、かつ、当該介護休業をした期間内にある日（その日に応当する日がない月においては、その月の末日。以下この項及び次項第二号において「休業開始応当日」という。）から各翌月の休業開始応当日の前日（当該介護休業を終了した日の属する月にあつては、当該介護休業を終了した日）までの各期間に区分した場合における当該区分による一の期間
支給単位期間
In Article 61-7, each of the month-long blocks into which a period of childcare leave (育児休業) is divided, each running from the day the leave began, or the corresponding absence commencement day (休業開始応当日) in a later month, to the day before the next month's corresponding day (or to the day the leave ended); the childcare leave benefits (育児休業給付金) are paid for each block.
育児休業をした期間を、当該育児休業を開始した日又は各月においてその日に応当し、かつ、当該育児休業をした期間内にある日（その日に応当する日がない月においては、その月の末日。以下この項及び次項において「休業開始応当日」という。）から各翌月の休業開始応当日の前日（当該育児休業を終了した日の属する月にあつては、当該育児休業を終了した日）までの各期間に区分した場合における当該区分による一の期間
出生時育児休業
Leave of four weeks or less that an insured person takes to raise their child within the window from the child's birth until the day after eight weeks have passed from it (adjusted where the child is born before or after the expected date of confinement), limited to leave for which they have told the chief of the Public Employment Security Office (公共職業安定所長) that they wish to receive the parental leave benefits (出生時育児休業給付金).
Work with shortened prescribed working hours (所定労働時間) that an insured person does, as a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) provides, to raise a child under two; the childcare short-time work benefits (育児時短就業給付金) are paid for it.
Work with shortened prescribed working hours (所定労働時間) that an insured person does, as a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) provides, to raise a child under two; the childcare short-time work benefits (育児時短就業給付金) are paid for it.
第六十一条の十二第一項に規定する育児時短就業
支給単位期間
In Article 7, paragraph (2) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 59 of 2000, the payment unit period as defined in Article 61-5, paragraph (2) of this Act as amended by that Act, on which the re-engagement benefits for persons taking childcare leave (育児休業者職場復帰給付金) were worked out.
In Article 61, each month from the month an insured person turns 60 to the month they turn 65 in which they were insured for the whole month and took neither leave for which nursing care leave, childcare leave, parental leave or post-birth leave support benefits could be paid nor leave for which educational training leave benefits could be paid; the basic continuous employment benefits for the elderly (高年齢雇用継続基本給付金) are paid for each such month.
被保険者が六十歳に達した日の属する月から六十五歳に達する日の属する月までの期間内にある月（その月の初日から末日まで引き続いて、被保険者であり、かつ、介護休業給付金又は育児休業給付金、出生時育児休業給付金若しくは出生後休業支援給付金の支給を受けることができる休業及び教育訓練休暇給付金の支給を受けることができる休暇の取得をしなかつた月に限る。）
In Article 61-12, each month from the month an insured person starts childcare short-time work (育児時短就業) to the month it ends in which they were insured for the whole month and took neither leave for which nursing care leave, childcare leave, parental leave or post-birth leave support benefits could be paid nor leave for which educational training leave benefits could be paid; the childcare short-time work benefits (育児時短就業給付金) are paid for each such month.
被保険者が育児時短就業を開始した日の属する月から当該育児時短就業を終了した日の属する月までの期間内にある月（その月の初日から末日まで引き続いて、被保険者であり、かつ、介護休業給付金又は育児休業給付金、出生時育児休業給付金若しくは出生後休業支援給付金の支給を受けることができる休業及び教育訓練休暇給付金の支給を受けることができる休暇の取得をしなかつた月に限る。）
This Act as it stood before Article 1 of Act No. 54 of 1984 amended it.
This Act as it stood before Article 1 of Act No. 57 of 1994 amended it.
This Act as it stood before Article 1 of Act No. 59 of 2000 amended it.
This Act as it stood before Article 4 of Act No. 35 of 2001 amended it.
This Act as it stood before Article 1 of Act No. 31 of 2003 amended it.
This Act as it stood before Article 5 of Act No. 58 of 2021 amended it.
This Act as it stood before Article 1 of Act No. 26 of 2024 amended it.
An insured person employed seasonally, other than one hired for a fixed term of four months or less, one whose prescribed weekly working hours are 20 or more but below a number the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare sets, and an insured day worker (日雇労働被保険者); the special lump-sum payment (特例一時金) is paid when they become unemployed.
This Act as it stood before Article 1 of Act No. 14 of 2020 amended it.
高年齢被保険者
An insured person (被保険者) aged 65 or over, other than a specially insured person in short-term employment (短期雇用特例被保険者) or an insured day worker (日雇労働被保険者).
Payment of the basic allowance (基本手当) beyond the prescribed duration of benefits (所定給付日数) under Article 24-2, paragraph (1) or (2), to certain qualified recipients — such as those whose health meets set criteria or whose workplace was hit by a disaster — whom the chief of the Public Employment Security Office (公共職業安定所長) finds should be given vocational guidance to help them find work again.
The day an insured person starts the educational training leave (教育訓練休暇) for which the educational training leave benefits (教育訓練休暇給付金) are paid — where they take the leave two or more times within a year of first starting it, the day the first leave starts.
受給期間
The period within which the basic allowance (基本手当) can be paid for the days on which a qualified recipient (受給資格者) is unemployed.
当該期間内の失業している日について基本手当の支給を受けることができる期間
Payment of the basic allowance (基本手当) beyond the prescribed duration of benefits (所定給付日数) under a measure the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare decides under Article 25, paragraph (1) for an area where job seekers find it hard to get work and wide area employment placement activities (広域職業紹介活動) are carried out, to qualified recipients whom the chief of the Public Employment Security Office (公共職業安定所長) finds suited to placement through those activities.
A qualified recipient (受給資格者), elderly qualified recipient (高年齢受給資格者), specially qualified recipient (特例受給資格者) or qualified day worker recipient (日雇受給資格者).
教育訓練給付金支給対象者
A person who can qualify under Article 60-2, paragraph (1) for the educational training benefits (教育訓練給付金): someone who, on the day they start the training, is a generally insured person (一般被保険者) or an elderly insured person (高年齢被保険者), or who ceased to be one within a period a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets before that day.
A qualified recipient (受給資格者), elderly qualified recipient (高年齢受給資格者), specially qualified recipient (特例受給資格者) or qualified day worker recipient (日雇受給資格者).
In Article 8, paragraph (1) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 31 of 2003, the qualified recipients, etc. as defined in Article 56-2, paragraph (2) of this Act as amended by that Act; the amended Article 56-2 on the employment promotion allowance (就業促進手当) applies to those of them who took up a job on or after the day that Act came into effect.
In Article 6 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 46 of 2011, the qualified recipients, etc. as defined in Article 56-3, paragraph (2) of this Act as amended by that Act; the amended Article 56-3 on the employment promotion allowance (就業促進手当) applies to those of them who took up a job on or after the day that Act came into effect.
This Act as amended by Article 2 of Act No. 17 of 2016.
This Act as amended by Article 2 of Act No. 14 of 2017.
支給限度額
In the Subsection on the continuous employment benefits for the elderly (高年齢雇用継続給付), 356,400 yen, as changed under Article 61, paragraph (7); no basic continuous employment benefits for the elderly (高年齢雇用継続基本給付金) are paid for a month subject to payment in which the wages paid reach it.
支給限度額
In Article 61-12, the amount the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare sets from the median wage of the highest-paid band of workers, as a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) provides; no childcare short-time work benefits (育児時短就業給付金) are paid for a month subject to payment in which the wages paid reach it.
改正法
Short name for the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 31 of 2003), used in the wording that the supplementary provisions (附則) of that Act substitute into provisions of this Act for cases that straddle its coming into effect.
改正法
Short name for the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 31 of 2003), used in the wording that the supplementary provisions (附則) of that Act substitute into provisions of this Act for cases that straddle its coming into effect.