Article 102-3-3Industrial Employment Stabilization Grant

一an employer that has been abruptly compelled to curtail business activities at a place of business due to business fluctuations, changes in the industrial structure, or other economic reasons, and that carries out initiatives and the like contributing to improving the productivity of the business conducted by the employer (limited to an employer that meets the requirements determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau);

二an employer that, in order to carry out initiatives and the like contributing to improving the productivity of the business conducted by the employer, has concluded a labor contract with no fixed term with a worker who meets the requirements determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau, and has hired that worker, within the period determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau, as a worker whose prescribed weekly working hours are the same as the prescribed weekly working hours of a worker with a standard employment status employed at the same place of business;

三an employer other than an employer (excluding an employer that dismissed workers because it became impossible to continue business due to a natural disaster or other unavoidable reason, or for reasons attributable to the workers) that dismissed workers of the place of business pertaining to the hiring under the preceding item during the period (referred to as the "reference period" in the following item) from the day six months before, counting from the day before the day of the hiring under the preceding item, until the date on which a written application for receipt of the incentive for the Industry Collaboration Human Resources Securing, etc. Support Course is submitted to the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau;

四an employer found to be carrying out proper employment management, judging from the number of those who were employed at the place of business pertaining to the hiring under item (ii) and separated from service in the reference period and for whom determination of recipient qualification was made as specific qualified recipients in that reference period, and other factors;

五an employer other than another employer that has a close relationship, in view of the status of stated capital, funds, personnel, transactions, etc., with the employer that had employed the person pertaining to the hiring under item (ii);

六an employer that maintains documents that clarify the status of separation from service of workers at the place of business pertaining to the hiring under item (ii) and the status of payment of wages to the person pertaining to that hiring.

一a small and medium-sized enterprise employer: 2,500,000 yen per worker;

二an employer other than a small and medium-sized enterprise employer: 1,800,000 yen per worker.

一an employer that has appointed a vocational ability development promoter (meaning a vocational ability development promoter prescribed in Article 12 of the Vocational Abilities Development Promotion Act; the same applies hereinafter), that has concluded in advance a contract concerning secondment with an employer that takes on the person seconded (hereinafter referred to as the "receiving employer" in this paragraph and paragraph (9)), that has seconded insured persons it employs (excluding an insured person whose period of continuous employment as an insured person with that employer, as of the day before the day of secondment, is less than six months; for the period from the day six months before, counting from the day before the day of secondment, to that day before, a person who has worked as a worker under a labor contract with a fixed term, a person who has been on secondment, a person who has engaged in labor pertaining to worker dispatching services (meaning the worker dispatching services prescribed in Article 2, item (iii) of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Services and Protecting Dispatched Workers (Act No. 88 of 1985) (hereinafter referred to as the "Worker Dispatching Act"); the same applies hereinafter in this item), and a person who has engaged in work performed under a contract in the form of contracting; for the period after the end of the secondment until the day on which six months have passed counting from the day of return to the place of business of that employer pertaining to that secondment, a person who works as a worker under a labor contract with a fixed term, a person who is on secondment, a person who engages in labor pertaining to worker dispatching services, and a person who engages in work performed under a contract in the form of contracting; insured persons, etc. who have been given notice of dismissal (meaning insured persons who have been given notice of dismissal and others equivalent thereto (excluding persons who clearly will take stable employment on the day following the day of that dismissal or other separation from service)); and insured day workers; hereinafter referred to as "insured persons at the seconding workplace" in this item and paragraph (9)), and that maintains documents that clarify the status of the secondment of the persons seconded and the status of bearing of the wages of the persons seconded (such an employer is hereinafter referred to as the "seconding employer" in this paragraph, paragraph (7) and paragraph (8)), where the secondment (meaning secondment for conducting vocational ability development of those insured persons at the seconding workplace) falls under all of the following:

イthe period in which the person seconded engages in the business conducted by the receiving employer (limited to work other than the work prescribed in the items of Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Worker Dispatching Act), at the place of business where the person seconded engages in it (referred to as the "receiving workplace" in (b)), is a period of one month or more, ends by the day on which two years have passed counting from the day of secondment, and the person returns, after the end of that secondment, to the place of business of the seconding employer pertaining to that secondment;

ロthe amount of ordinary wages during the period in which the person seconded engages in the business conducted at the receiving workplace (referred to as the "secondment period" in the following paragraph) is equal to or more than the amount of that person's ordinary wages before the secondment;

ハit is conducted as provided by a written agreement made in advance, concerning matters regarding the implementation of secondment such as the timing of secondment and the scope of workers subject to secondment, between the seconding employer and the labor union, etc. of the place of business of that seconding employer pertaining to that secondment;

ニthe consent of the person seconded has been obtained;

ホit is based on a secondment plan (including a plan for vocational ability development; the same applies in item (iii)) notified to the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau;

二an employer other than an employer (excluding an employer that dismissed workers because it became impossible to continue business due to a natural disaster or other unavoidable reason, or for reasons attributable to the workers) that dismissed workers of the place of business of the seconding employer during the period (referred to as the "reference period" in the following item) from the day six months before, counting from the day before the day of secondment, until the date on which a written application for receipt of the incentive for the Skill Improvement Support Course is submitted to the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau;

三an employer found to be carrying out proper employment management, judging from the number of those who were employed at the place of business of the seconding employer pertaining to the secondment plan and separated from service in the reference period and for whom determination of recipient qualification was made as specific qualified recipients in that reference period, and other factors;

四an employer for which the ratio obtained by dividing the amount of wages paid to the returning worker on each wage payment day of each month, in each month from the month following the month containing the first wage payment day pertaining to the person who returned to the place of business of the seconding employer pertaining to the secondment after the end of the secondment (hereinafter referred to as the "returning worker" in this item) to the month containing the day on which six months have passed counting from that first wage payment day, by the amount of wages paid to the returning worker on the most recent wage payment day before the secondment, is in every case equal to or more than the ratio determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau (where the returning worker falls under a person determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau, an employer that satisfies the conditions determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau);

五a receiving employer that has concluded in advance a contract concerning secondment with the seconding employer and that maintains documents that clarify the status of the secondment of the persons hired and the specific status of the wages of the persons hired.

一an employer falling under all of items (i) through (iv) of the preceding paragraph: an amount obtained by multiplying by 1/2 (2/3 for a small and medium-sized enterprise employer) the amount that employer has borne, based on the contract under item (i) of that paragraph, for the wages during the secondment period (where that period exceeds one year counting from the day of secondment, one year; referred to as the "payment period" in the following paragraph) of a person seconded by a secondment falling under all of (a) through (e) of item (i) of that paragraph;

二an employer falling under item (v) of the preceding paragraph: an amount obtained by multiplying by 1/2 (2/3 for a small and medium-sized enterprise employer) the amount that employer has borne based on the contract under that item.