Act on the Collection, etc. of Insurance Premiums of Labor Insurance

If a business operator must pay the labor insurance premiums or any shortfall thereof pursuant to the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (5), the government is to collect the surcharges in the amount obtained by multiplying the amount payable (if the amount includes a fraction less than one thousand yen, the fraction is rounded down) by ten one-hundredth (10/100); provided, however, that this does not apply to the cases where the business operator must pay the labor insurance premiums or any shortfall thereof pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph due to a natural disaster or other compelling reasons.

Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the surcharges prescribed in the same paragraph will not be collected if the labor insurance premiums or any shortfall thereof prescribed in the same paragraph is less than one thousand yen.

The provision of Article 17, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to the cases where the surcharges are collected pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1).

If the business operator requests to entrust the payment of the labor insurance premiums other than the stamp insurance premiums made by means of the repayment of deposit and using the repaid money (hereinafter merely referred to as the "labor insurance premiums" in this Article) (limited to those specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare), to a financial institution at which the business operator has its deposit account, the government may approve the request only if the payment is deemed certain and the approval of the request is found to be advantageous for the collection of labor insurance premiums.

If the payment due date of the labor insurance premiums pertaining to the employer that has obtained the approval set forth in the preceding paragraph comes concurrently with the submission due date of the written declaration required to be attached to the payment pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter, and the labor insurance premiums are paid on or before the day specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the provisions of Article 27 and Article 28 apply, even if the payment is made after the payment due date, by deeming that the payment has been made within the payment due date.

The amount of the stamp insurance premiums per person per diem for the insured person who is a day laborer prescribed in Article 43, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act (hereinafter referred to as the "insured person who is a day laborer") is as follows.

one hundred seventy six yen for a person whose daily wage amount is 11, 300 yen or more;

one hundred forty six yen for a person whose daily wage amount is 8,200 yen or more and less than 11,300 yen; and

ninety six yen for a person whose daily wage amount is less than 8,200 yen

The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, if they have changed the insurance premium rate for appropriation to costs of benefits for unemployment, etc. pursuant to the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (5), is to change the amount of the stamp insurance premiums set forth in item (i) of the preceding paragraph (in the case the amount has been changed pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph or paragraph (4), the changed amount; hereinafter referred to as the "Level I daily insurance premium amount"), the amount of the stamp insurance premiums set forth in item (ii) of the preceding paragraph (in the case the amount has been changed pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph or paragraph (4), the changed amount; hereinafter referred to as the "Level II daily insurance premium amount") and the amount of the stamp insurance premiums set forth in item (iii) of the preceding paragraph (in the case the amount has been changed pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph or paragraph (4), the changed amount; hereinafter referred to as the "Level III daily insurance premium amount"), pursuant to the provisions of the following paragraph.

In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the Level I daily insurance premium amount, the Level II daily insurance premium amount and the Level III daily insurance premium amount, for each insured person who is a day laborer, are to be changed to the amount calculated based on the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, so that the balance between the amount to be borne with respect to the labor insurance premiums pursuant to the provisions of Article 31, paragraphs (1) and (2) before and after the changes are made to the daily insurance premium amounts is maintained.

The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, in changing the Level I daily benefit amount, the Level II daily benefit amount and the Level III daily benefit amount prescribed in Article 49, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph, is to change the Level I daily insurance premium amount, the Level II daily insurance premium amount and the Level III daily insurance premium amount in proportion to the ratio of changes to the Level I daily benefit amount, the Level II daily benefit amount and the Level III daily benefit amount prescribed in the same paragraph, respectively.

If, at the end of each month, the difference between the amount obtained by multiplying the amount corresponding to the total amount of the stamp insurance premiums already collected by the rate specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and the amount corresponding to two-thirds of the total amount of the benefits for unemployment etc. pertaining to the insured person who is a day laborer already paid pursuant to the provisions of the Employment Insurance Act, is found to be less than the amount corresponding to one half of the amount of the benefits for unemployment etc. pertaining to the insured person who is a day laborer to be paid pursuant to the provisions of the same Act during six months from the month following that month, and the procedures for changing the amount of the stamp insurance premiums cannot be taken due to the close of the Diet or the dissolution of the House of Representatives and it is urgently necessary, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, after hearing the opinions of the Labor Policy Council, may change the Level I daily insurance premium amount, the Level II daily insurance premium amount, and the Level III daily insurance premium amount.

In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must take procedures for changing the Level I daily insurance premium amount, the Level II daily insurance premium amount and the Level III daily insurance premium amount at the following Diet. In this case, if no resolution is made at the Diet in respect of the change within one year from the day on which the change pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph is made, the Level I daily insurance premium amount, the Level II daily insurance premium amount and the Level III daily insurance premium amount as changed pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph are deemed to be changed to the Level I daily insurance premium amount, the Level II daily insurance premium amount and the Level III daily insurance premium amount prior to the change by the same paragraph, effective as of the day on which one year has elapsed from the day the change was made.

The employer (in the case the master contractor is deemed as the employer pursuant to the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (1) or (2), the subcontractor employing an insured person who is a day laborer other than the workers employed by the master contractor, among the workers pertaining to the business, in respect of the stamp insurance premiums pertaining to the insured person who is a day laborer; hereinafter the same applies in this Article to Article 25, Article 31, Article 32, Article 42, Article 43, and Article 46) must pay the stamp insurance premiums pertaining to the insured person who is a day laborer each time the employer pays wages to the person.

The payment of the stamp insurance premiums pursuant to the provision of the preceding paragraph must be made by the business operator by affixing the employment insurance stamp on the insurance record book for the insured person who is a day laborer (hereinafter referred to as the "insurance record book for insured person who is a day laborer") issued for the insured person who is a day laborer pursuant to the provisions of Article 44 of the Employment Insurance Act and putting a cancellation mark on the stamp.

If the business operator, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, has installed a stamp insurance premium payment register (meaning an instrument designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as having no problem in preserving the stamp insurance premiums and equipped with a stamp that produces an imprint in the form specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (hereinafter referred to as the "payment stamp"); the same applies hereinafter) subject to approval of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, notwithstanding the provision of the preceding paragraph, the business operator may pay the stamp insurance premiums by imprinting the payment stamp, with clear indication of the amount corresponding to the amount of the stamp insurance premiums payable, on the insurance record book for an insured person who is a day laborer possessed by the insured person who is a day laborer by using the stamp insurance premiums payment register.

If the business operator that has obtained the approval set forth in the preceding paragraph violates a provision of this Act or the Employment Insurance Act, or any Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare based on those laws, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may revoke the approval set forth in the same paragraph.

Necessary matters concerning the method of payment of the stamp insurance premiums pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

The business operator in employing an insured person who is a day laborer, must have the person submit their insurance record book. The insurance record book for the insured person who is a day laborer submitted must be returned upon request of that person.

The business operator, if the business operator has employed any daily work insured person, must keep accounting books for the payment of the stamp insurance premiums pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, record the payment status of the stamp insurance premiums on a monthly basis, and report the payment status to the government on or before the end of the following month.