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事業主
In this Ordinance other than Article 130, the employer of a covered undertaking (適用事業).
An employer whose capital or total contributions do not exceed 300 million yen (50 million yen where its main business is retail or services, 100 million yen where it is wholesale), or whose regular workforce does not exceed 300 (50 where its main business is retail, 100 where it is wholesale or services).
その資本金の額又は出資の総額が三億円（小売業又はサービス業を主たる事業とする事業主については五千万円、卸売業を主たる事業とする事業主については一億円）を超えない事業主及びその常時雇用する労働者の数が三百人（小売業を主たる事業とする事業主については五十人、卸売業又はサービス業を主たる事業とする事業主については百人）を超えない事業主
被保険者
Everywhere in this Order except Article 118-2, paragraph (12), item (i)(c) and Article 17-2-7 of the supplementary provisions (附則), an insured person as Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act defines it: a worker employed in a covered undertaking (適用事業), other than the persons listed in Article 6 of that Act.
The Public Employment Security Office with jurisdiction over the place where the person lives or stays, whose head handles that person's matters under Article 1, paragraph (5), item (i).
The Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau (職業安定局) of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
受給資格者
A person who holds the recipient qualification (受給資格) of Article 14, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Employment Insurance Act — the qualification to receive the basic allowance (基本手当).
被保険者
In Article 118-2, paragraph (12), item (i)(c), an insured person of health insurance under the Health Insurance Act or of employees' pension insurance under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act.
The employment insurance notice of recipient qualification, which a person who showed their Individual Number Card (個人番号カード) when submitting their separation slip (離職票) can ask for in place of the qualified recipient's certificate, giving their name, insured person number, sex, date of birth, reason for separation, daily basic allowance amount, prescribed duration of benefits, how their benefits are being handled and the other matters the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau (職業安定局長) sets.
The recipient qualification of Article 14, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Employment Insurance Act: the qualification to receive the basic allowance (基本手当) under Article 13, paragraph (1) of that Act, which turns on how long a person who has become unemployed was insured before separating from service.
The employment insurance qualified recipient's certificate (Form No. 11) that the Public Employment Security Office (公共職業安定所) issues to a qualified recipient (受給資格者), filled in with the matters needed for paying them the basic allowance (基本手当).
育児休業
From Article 116, paragraph (3), item (i)(b)(2) on, childcare leave as Article 2, item (i) of the Act on Childcare Leave, Caregiver Leave, and Other Measures for the Welfare of Workers Caring for Children or Other Family Members defines it, together with leave under measures equivalent to the childcare leave system under Article 23, paragraph (2) of that Act and leave under measures taken in line with that system under Article 24, paragraph (1) of that Act.
育児・介護休業法第二条第一号に規定する育児休業、育児・介護休業法第二十三条第二項に規定する育児休業に関する制度に準ずる措置による休業及び育児・介護休業法第二十四条第一項の規定により育児休業に関する制度に準じて講ずることとされる措置による休業
個人番号カード
An Individual Number Card as defined in Article 2, paragraph (7) of the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures: a card showing, among other things, the holder's name, address, date of birth, sex and Individual Number (個人番号), with a photograph unless the holder is below an age set by Ministerial Order, and with that information also recorded electronically.
行政手続における特定の個人を識別するための番号の利用等に関する法律第二条第七項に規定する個人番号カード
Educational training (教育訓練) for occupations needed for stable employment and finding work that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates as specialized, practical training that helps a person build their career over the medium to long term.
被保険者
In Article 17-2-7, paragraph (2), item (i)(c) and paragraph (3), item (i)(c) of the supplementary provisions (附則), an insured person of health insurance under the Health Insurance Act or of employees' pension insurance under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act.
A fixed-term contract worker (有期契約労働者), or a worker employed with no fixed term (無期契約労働者) who is not a regular worker, a regular employee with a limited work location, a regular employee with limited duties or a short-time regular employee.
対象被保険者
In Article 104, an insured person aged 60 or over who, on the day before the employer applies, has been continuously employed by it for a year or more.
Vocational training or educational training (職業訓練等) other than practical training (実習) — that is, other than training through actual work in the employer's business.
実習（事業主が行う業務の遂行の過程内における実務を通じた実践的な技能及びこれに関する知識の習得に係る職業訓練をいう。以下同じ。）以外の職業訓練等（職業訓練又は教育訓練をいう。第百三十八条を除き、以下同じ。）
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 undertaking (適用事業), lives outside one but works for a covered undertaking inside it, works outside one for a covered undertaking 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.
育児休業の申出
In Chapter III-2, an insured person's request to the employer for leave to raise a child, which must state the first and last days of one period of leave.
その雇用する労働者に係る賃金を増額した事業主
In Article 125, paragraph (2), and in Article 34, paragraph (2) and Article 35, paragraph (2) of the supplementary provisions (附則), an employer that has raised the wages of the workers it employs by at least the rate the Director-General for Human Resources Development (人材開発統括官) sets, or that has raised by at least that rate, under a collective agreement or its work rules, the wages of workers it recognizes as having gained specialist knowledge or skills for their job.
特定受給資格者
A specific qualified recipient as Article 23, paragraph (2) of the Employment Insurance Act defines it: a qualified recipient (受給資格者) whose separation from service came with the insolvency of the employer or the scaling down or closing of its business, or who was dismissed or left for another reason a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets.
From Article 82-3 on, the qualified recipients, etc. of Article 56-3, paragraph (2) of the Employment Insurance Act: 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).
同条第二項に規定する受給資格者等
計画対象被保険者
An insured person covered by an employer's re-employment assistance plan (再就職援助計画), other than a specially insured person in short-term employment (短期雇用特例被保険者), an insured day worker (日雇労働被保険者), a person the employer has employed as an insured person for less than one year without a break, and a person expected to return to the employer's business establishment.
This Ministerial Order as it stood before Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 62 of 2023 amended it.
A person who holds the special recipient qualification (特例受給資格) under Article 39, paragraph (2) of the Employment Insurance Act: 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).
介護休業給付金支給申請書
The application an insured person submits, normally through their employer, to the chief of the Public Employment Security Office (公共職業安定所) for nursing care leave benefits (介護休業給付金), giving their name, insured person number and individual number, the family member cared for, the dates and number of days of leave, the wages paid in each payment unit period (支給単位期間) and the other matters the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau (職業安定局長) sets.
The date Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 48 of 2011, the amending Ministerial Order these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
This Ministerial Order as it stood before Article 1 of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 48 of 2011 amended it.
The date Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 62 of 2023, the amending Ministerial Order these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
An insured person, other than a specially insured person in short-term employment or the like (短期雇用特例被保険者等), covered by the job-seeking support document (求職活動支援書) an employer draws up.
The date Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 55 of 2017, the amending Ministerial Order these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
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) under Article 37-3, paragraph (2) of the Employment Insurance Act: 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).
The Director-General of the Employment Environment and Equal Employment Bureau (雇用環境・均等局) of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
休業等
In Articles 15 to 15-4 of the supplementary provisions (附則), leave or educational training as defined in Article 102-3, paragraph (1), item (ii), (a), for which an employment adjustment grant (雇用調整助成金) is paid.
This Ministerial Order as it stood before Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 71 of 2006 amended it.
This Ministerial Order as it stood before Article 1 of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 55 of 2017 amended it.
The employment insurance separation slip for an insured person (雇用保険被保険者離職票), in Form No. 6, which a person who has left their job submits to the Public Employment Security Office to have their qualification for benefits decided.
被保険者手帳
The insurance record book of an insured day worker (日雇労働被保険者手帳), in Form No. 11-4.
In this Ordinance, the daily amount of the basic allowance (基本手当) under Article 16 of the Employment Insurance Act.
法第十六条の規定による基本手当の日額
特定事業主
In Article 116, an employer whose stated capital or total investment does not exceed 300 million yen (50 million yen where its main business is retail or services, 100 million yen where it is wholesale), or that regularly employs no more than 300 workers.
その資本金の額又は出資の総額が三億円（小売業又はサービス業を主たる事業とする事業主については五千万円、卸売業を主たる事業とする事業主については一億円）を超えない事業主及びその常時雇用する労働者の数が三百人を超えない事業主
新型コロナウイルス感染症関係事業主
In Articles 15 to 15-4 of the supplementary provisions (附則), an employer under Article 102-3, paragraph (1), item (i), (a) whose target period, as worded before the 2024 Amending Ordinance (令和六年改正省令), began between 24 January 2020 and 30 November 2022, and that had to cut back its business sharply for economic reasons arising from COVID-19.
In Articles 15, 15-2 and 15-4 of the supplementary provisions (附則), the base period for determination as defined in Article 102-3, paragraph (1), item (ii), (a), (5): the month in which the leave or educational training is carried out, or the wage period where wages are closed on a fixed date each month.
The date Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 137 of 2016, the amending Ministerial Order these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
The date Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 57 of 2019, the amending Ministerial Order these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
Educational training (教育訓練) in an occupation needed for stable employment and finding work that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates as helping a person find new work quickly and build a career early, other than the specialized practical educational training (専門実践教育訓練) of Article 101-2-7, item (iv).
The date Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 58 of 2018, the amending Ministerial Order these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
This Ministerial Order as it stood before Article 1 of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 58 of 2018 amended it.
This Ministerial Order as it stood before Article 1 of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 81 of 2021 amended it.
特例高年齢被保険者
A person who has become an elderly insured person (高年齢被保険者) by applying to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 37-5, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act: a worker aged 65 or over employed by two or more employers, who works fewer than 20 prescribed hours a week for any one of them but 20 hours or more in total for two of them.
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); certain authorized vocational training (認定職業訓練); 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.
From Article 100-2 on, the fee paid when a person starts a course of training.
受講の開始に際し納付する料金
派遣元事業主
A staffing provider as defined in Article 2, item (iv) of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers: a person that carries on worker dispatching services (労働者派遣事業) under the license of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.
労働者派遣法第二条第四号に規定する派遣元事業主
A plan for vocational training or other vocational ability development, drawn up for each course of training, that an employer makes under its in-house vocational ability development plan (事業内職業能力開発計画) and makes known to its workers, as Article 125, paragraph (2), item (i)(a)(1)(i) provides.
This Ministerial Order as it stood before Article 6 of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 189 of 2001 amended it.
The date Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 82 of 2005, the amending Ministerial Order these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
This Ministerial Order as it stood before Article 1 of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 82 of 2005 amended it.
A covered undertaking as Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act defines it: any business in which workers are employed.
教育訓練給付金支給対象者
An educational training benefit recipient as defined in Article 60-2, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act: a person 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.
Short name for the Act on Childcare Leave, Caregiver Leave, and Other Measures for the Welfare of Workers Caring for Children or Other Family Members (Act No. 76 of 1991).
A specified local government (特定地方公共団体) as Article 4, paragraph (9) of the Employment Security Act defines it, or an employment placement service provider (職業紹介事業者) as paragraph (10) of that Article defines it: one that runs an employment placement business under a permit or a notification under that Act.
職業安定法（昭和二十二年法律第百四十一号）第四条第九項に規定する特定地方公共団体（以下「特定地方公共団体」という。）及び同条第十項に規定する職業紹介事業者
令和六年改正省令
Short name for the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order partially amending the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act and other Orders (Order No. 66 of 2024).
This Ministerial Order as it stood before Ministry of Labour Order No. 21 of 1997 amended it.
The date Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 53 of 2010, the amending Ministerial Order these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
This Ministerial Order as it stood before Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 53 of 2010 amended it.
The date Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 67 of 2012, the amending Ministerial Order these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
Everywhere in this Order but Article 138, vocational training or educational training (教育訓練).
職業訓練又は教育訓練
対象被保険者
In Article 15 of the supplementary provisions (附則), a covered insured person as defined in Article 102-3, paragraph (1), item (ii), (a), as read under paragraph (3) of Article 15.
The date Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 54 of 2025, the amending Ministerial Order these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
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).
In the Section of this Ordinance containing Article 75, on insured day workers, the recognition under Article 47, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act that a person who meets Article 45 of that Act is unemployed, which the Public Employment Security Office (公共職業安定所) gives day by day for each day, after checking what the person has done to look for work.
Job-seeking over a wide area that a qualified recipient or other recipient carries on on a referral from the Public Employment Security Office (公共職業安定所), for which the wide-area job-seeking activity expenses (広域求職活動費) can be paid.
労働組合等
The labor union organized by a majority of the workers at the workplace, or, where there is none, the person who represents a majority of them.
キャリアアップ
The improvement of a worker's vocational abilities through work experience or chances to develop them, such as vocational training, and with it better treatment at work, including their future position and their wages.
職務経験又は職業訓練等の職業能力の開発の機会を通じ、職業能力の向上並びにこれによる将来の職務上の地位及び賃金をはじめとする処遇の改善が図られること
The date Ministry of Labour Order No. 21 of 1997, the amending Ministerial Order these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
This Ministerial Order as it stood before Article 1 of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 80 of 2007 amended it.
This Ministerial Order as it stood before Article 1 of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 67 of 2012 amended it.
This Ministerial Order as it stood before Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 137 of 2016 amended it.
This Ministerial Order as it stood before Article 1 of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 57 of 2019 amended it.
This Ministerial Order as it stood before Article 1 of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 54 of 2025 amended it.
一般被保険者
An insured person (被保険者) other than an elderly insured person (高年齢被保険者), 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).
被保険者のうち、法第三十七条の二第一項に規定する高年齢被保険者（以下「高年齢被保険者」という。）、法第三十八条第一項に規定する短期雇用特例被保険者（以下「短期雇用特例被保険者」という。）及び日雇労働被保険者以外のもの
The date Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 81 of 2021, the amending Ministerial Order these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
The day, set by the chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office (公共職業安定所) and made known to the person, on which they are to obtain the recognition that they are unemployed (失業の認定).
対象被保険者
In Article 116, paragraph (18), item (i), (c), an insured person the employer employs who is dealing with physical or mental problems of menopause.
In Articles 118-2 and 125, a worker employed with no fixed term whose place of work is more limited than that of a regular worker at the same workplace, and who is treated the same as a regular worker, other than a dispatched worker (派遣労働者).
期間の定めのない労働契約を締結している労働者であつて、勤務地が同一の事業所に雇用される通常の労働者の勤務地に比し限定され、かつ、通常の労働者と同等の待遇を受けるものをいい、派遣労働者を除く
In Articles 118-2 and 125, a worker on a contract without a fixed term whose prescribed weekly working hours are shorter than those of the regular workers (通常の労働者) at the same business establishment and who is treated on a par with them, other than a dispatched worker (派遣労働者).
期間の定めのない労働契約を締結している労働者であつて、一週間の所定労働時間が同一の事業所に雇用される通常の労働者の一週間の所定労働時間に比し短く、かつ、通常の労働者と同等の待遇を受けるものをいい、派遣労働者を除く
職務限定正社員
In Articles 118-2 and 125, a worker on a contract without a fixed term whose duties are more limited than those of the regular workers (通常の労働者) at the same business establishment and who is treated on a par with them, other than a dispatched worker (派遣労働者).
期間の定めのない労働契約を締結している労働者であつて、職務が同一の事業所に雇用される通常の労働者の職務に比し限定され、かつ、通常の労働者と同等の待遇を受けるものをいい、派遣労働者を除く
The date Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 99 of 2009, the amending Ministerial Order these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
The date Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 83 of 2016, the amending Ministerial Order these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
This Ministerial Order as it stood before Article 1 of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 83 of 2016 amended it.
A person with a mental disability (精神障害者) as Article 2, item (vi) of the Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities defines it: a person with a disability (障害者) who has a mental disability (精神障害), including a developmental disability (発達障害), and falls within the persons a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets.
The employment insurance special recipient qualification notice (雇用保険特例受給資格通知): a notice giving the person's name, insured person number, sex, date of birth, reason for separation from service, daily basic allowance amount, prescribed duration of benefits, the progress of the benefit and other matters the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau (職業安定局長) sets, issued in place of the specially qualified recipient's certificate (特例受給資格者証) to a person who showed an Individual Number Card (個人番号カード) when submitting the separation slip and asked for it.
The date Ministry of Labour Order No. 31 of 1989, the amending Ministerial Order these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
This Ministerial Order as it stood before Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 99 of 2009 amended it.
The date Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order No. 66 of 2024, the amending Ministerial Order these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
The individual number (the personal 'My Number') as defined in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures (Act No. 27 of 2013).
行政手続における特定の個人を識別するための番号の利用等に関する法律（平成二十五年法律第二十七号）第二条第五項に規定する個人番号
被保険者番号
The insured person number shown on the insured person's certificate (被保険者証) most recently issued to the person under Article 10, paragraph (1).
直近に交付された第十条第一項の雇用保険被保険者証（同項を除き、以下「被保険者証」という。）に記載されている被保険者番号
The employment insurance notification of acquisition of insured status (雇用保険被保険者資格取得届): a form giving the insured person's name, Individual Number (個人番号), sex, date of birth, prescribed weekly working hours, insured person number (for one who has been insured before) and other matters the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau (職業安定局長) sets, which an employer must submit to the Public Employment Security Office by the 10th of the month after a worker became an insured person.
A corporation whose stated capital or investment at the start of its business year (事業年度, as Articles 13 and 14 of the Corporation Tax Act define it) exceeds 100 million yen — for the Banks' Shareholdings Purchase Corporation (銀行等保有株式取得機構), the total of the initial and sale-time contributions its members paid under Article 41, paragraphs (1) and (3) of the Act on Limitation on Shareholding by Banks and Other Financial Institutions — or a mutual company (相互会社) under Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Insurance Business Act, an investment corporation (投資法人) under Article 2, paragraph (12) of the Act on Investment Trusts and Investment Corporations, or a specific purpose company (特定目的会社) under Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Act on the Securitization of Assets.
事業年度（法人税法（昭和四十年法律第三十四号）第十三条及び第十四条に規定する事業年度をいう。）開始の時における資本金の額、出資金の額若しくは銀行等保有株式取得機構がその会員から銀行等の株式等の保有の制限等に関する法律（平成十三年法律第百三十一号）第四十一条第一項及び第三項の規定により納付された同条第一項の当初拠出金の額及び同条第三項の売却時拠出金の額の合計額が一億円を超える法人、保険業法（平成七年法律第百五号）第二条第五項に規定する相互会社、投資信託及び投資法人に関する法律（昭和二十六年法律第百九十八号）第二条第十二項に規定する投資法人又は資産の流動化に関する法律（平成十年法律第百五号）第二条第三項に規定する特定目的会社
Everywhere in this Order except Articles 9 and 145, the electronic data processing system linking, through telecommunications lines, the computers used by the Public Employment Security Office with those used by a specified corporation (特定法人).
公共職業安定所の使用に係る電子計算機（入出力装置を含む。以下同じ。）と特定法人の使用に係る電子計算機とを電気通信回線で接続した電子情報処理組織