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公共職業安定所(こうきょうしょくぎょうあんていじょ)

A national government office that does job placement (職業紹介) between job seekers and employers, vocational guidance and employment insurance (雇用保険) work, and other work the Employme…

Written by AI using Employment Security Act, Art. 8 and Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Art. 23 as a reference.

都道府県労働局(とどうふけんろうどうきょく)

A local branch (地方支分部局) of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働省), a national ministry, so it is part of the national government and not of the prefecture, despite its…

Written by AI using Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Arts. 2, 17, 21, 22, 23 and National Government Organization Act, Art. 9 as a reference.

都道府県労働局長(とどうふけんろうどうきょくちょう)

The head of a prefectural labor bureau (都道府県労働局), a local branch (地方支分部局) of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, so part of the national government rather than of the prefe…

Written by AI using Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Art. 17, National Government Organization Act, Art. 9, Labor Standards Act, Arts. 97, 99 and Employment Security Act, Art. 8 as a reference.

public employment security office, etc.

公共職業安定所等(こうきょうしょくぎょうあんていじょとう)

In Article 5-5, paragraph (2), a collective name for public employment security offices (公共職業安定所), specified local governments (特定地方公共団体), employment placement service providers (職業紹介事業者) and job posters, persons recruiting workers and commissioned recruiters (募集受託者), providers of recruitment/candidate information in a specified manner (特定募集情報等提供事業者), and providers of worker supply services (労働者供給事業者) and persons seeking to have workers supplied to them.

training extended benefits

訓練延長給付(くんれんえんちょうきゅうふ)

Payment of the basic allowance (基本手当) beyond the prescribed duration of benefits (所定給付日数) under Article 24, paragraph (1) or (2), to qualified recipients taking public vocational training, etc. (公共職業訓練等) that the chief of the Public Employment Security Office (公共職業安定所長) has directed them to take.

第二十四条第一項又は第二項の規定による基本手当の支給

employment placement service providers, etc.

職業紹介事業者等(しょくぎょうしょうかいじぎょうしゃとう)

An employment placement agency (職業紹介機関) as defined in Article 2 of the Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures, and Stabilizing the Employment of Workers, and Enriching Workers' Vocational Lives, or a person who, as a business, gives vocational guidance (職業指導) under Article 4, paragraph (4) of the Employment Security Act suited to the job seeker's aptitude, experience and circumstances, other than Public Employment Security Offices (公共職業安定所) and other employment security agencies.

…定する職業指導(職業に就こうとする者の適性、職業経験その他の実情に応じて行うものに限る。)を行う者(公共職業安定所その他の職業安定機関を除く。)

employment placement agency

職業紹介機関(しょくぎょうしょうかいきかん)

A public employment security office (公共職業安定所), including the head of a school that shares some of its work under the Employment Security Act; a local government running a free employment placement business under that Act; or anyone running an employment placement business under that Act with a license or after giving notice.

公共職業安定所(職業安定法(昭和二十二年法律第百四十一号)の規定により公共職業安定所の業務の一部を分担する学校の長を含む。)、同法の規定により無料の職業紹介事業を行う地方公共団体及び同…

insured day worker

日雇労働被保険者(ひやといろうどうひほけんしゃ)

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.

parental leave

出生時育児休業(しゅっしょうじいくじきゅうぎょう)

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).

individual extended benefits

個別延長給付(こべつえんちょうきゅうふ)

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.

wide area extended benefits

広域延長給付(こういきえんちょうきゅうふ)

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.

Pocketbook

手帳(てちょう)

The job-seeker's pocketbook for middle-aged and elderly unemployed persons, etc. (中高年齢失業者等求職手帳) that the head of a Public Employment Security Office (公共職業安定所) issues, on their application, to middle-aged and elderly unemployed persons, etc. (中高年齢失業者等) who have applied there for work and meet the other conditions in Article 22, paragraph (1).

recognition of unemployment

失業の認定(しつぎょうのにんてい)

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.

insured person who is a day laborer

日雇労働被保険者(ひやといろうどうひほけんしゃ)

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.

designated area

指定地域(していちいき)

In Article 11, paragraph (1), an area the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates as one where poor transport links to the public employment security office (公共職業安定所) make it difficult to apply to that office directly with a job opening or for a job.

measures to promote employment

就職促進の措置(しゅうしょくそくしんのそち)

The measures listed in Article 25, paragraph (1), such as vocational guidance, job placement and vocational training, that the head of a Public Employment Security Office (公共職業安定所) instructs a person issued a Pocketbook (手帳) to receive, under the plan the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare draws up.

head of a school undertaking operations

業務分担学校長(ぎょうむぶんたんがっこうちょう)

The head of a school (学校) to whom the chief of a public employment security office (公共職業安定所) has given part of that office's work under Article 27, paragraph (1), with the head's consent or at the head's request.

covered area

適用区域(てきようくいき)

In Article 43, paragraph (1), the area of a special ward (特別区) or of a municipality where a Public Employment Security Office (公共職業安定所) is located (other than parts the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare excludes), or all or part of a neighbouring municipality, that the Minister designates.

wide area employment placement activities

広域職業紹介活動(こういきしょくぎょうしょうかいかつどう)

In Article 25, job placement activities across a wide area that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has the directors of Prefectural Labour Bureaus (都道府県労働局長) and chiefs of Public Employment Security Offices (公共職業安定所長) carry out, under a plan the Minister draws up, to help job seekers in an area where work is hard to find get jobs elsewhere.

personnel management matters concerning persons with disabilities

障害者の雇用管理に関する事項(しょうがいしゃのこようかんりにかんするじこう)

In Section 3 of Chapter II, hiring, job assignment, work aids, work equipment or environment, and other technical matters in employing persons with disabilities, on which the vocational centers for persons with disabilities advise and assist employers.

guidance criteria

指導基準(しどうきじゅん)

The criteria, set by a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令), against which the chief of the Public Employment Security Office (公共職業安定所長) judges whether a qualified recipient should be given vocational guidance to help them find work again, for the individual extended benefits (個別延長給付) of Article 24-2.

insurance record book for insured person who is a day laborer

日雇労働被保険者手帳(ひやといろうどうひほけんしゃてちょう)

The record book that an insured person who is a day laborer (日雇労働被保険者) must obtain from a Public Employment Security Office (公共職業安定所) under Article 44 of the Employment Insurance Act, into which the employer pays the stamp insurance premiums (印紙保険料) by affixing employment insurance stamps (雇用保険印紙) and cancelling them.

project operator for a public works project

公共事業の事業主体等(こうきょうじぎょうのじぎょうしゅたいとう)

The national government, the government-funded corporations, or the local governments and similar bodies that carry out a public works project (公共事業) for which an absorption ratio of unemployed persons (失業者吸収率) has been fixed, including anyone carrying out the project for them under a contract.