The purpose of this Act is, with regard to the employees of small and medium-sized enterprises, to establish a retirement allowance mutual aid system funded by contributions from small and medium-sized enterprises, based on the spirit of mutual aid among them, and thereby to contribute to the enhancement of the welfare of those employees and the promotion of small and medium-sized enterprises, etc.
この法律は、中小企業の従業員について、中小企業者の相互扶助の精神に基づき、その拠出による退職金共済制度を確立し、もつてこれらの従業員の福祉の増進と中小企業の振興に寄与すること等を目的とする。
small and medium-sized enterprisemachine translation
「中小企業者」
An employer (事業主) — other than the State, a local government or a similar body an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働省令) names — that regularly employs no more than 300 employees, or is a corporation with stated capital or total contributions of no more than 300 million yen; where its main business is wholesale, the limits are 100 employees or 100 million yen, in services 100 employees or 50 million yen, and in retail 50 employees or 50 million yen.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law