The reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 61-12, paragraph (1) of the Act are as follows:

The brackets under Article 61-12, paragraph (2) of the Act are those obtained by dividing into four tiers, according to their level, the amount of contractual cash earnings per month received by those under 65 years of age among the regular workers (meaning regular workers employed at a place of business prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Rules for the Basic Survey on Wage Structure (Order of the Ministry of Labour No. 8 of 1964) (limited to a place of business other than that of the national government or a local government)) in the basic statistics on wage structure prepared by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (hereinafter referred to as the "basic statistics on wage structure" in this Article), according to the results of the survey for the basic statistics on wage structure.

The reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as reasons found to make it inappropriate to rely on the day on which the leave under Article 65, paragraph (1) of the Labor Standards Act began, under Article 61-12, paragraph (1) of the Act as applied with replaced terms pursuant to paragraph (4) of that Article, and the days specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in accordance with those reasons, are the reasons set out in the following items and the days specified in those items according to the categories of reasons set out in those items.

The rate specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 61-12, paragraph (6), item (ii) of the Act is the rate obtained by dividing the amount obtained by deducting the total amount of the amounts set out in items (ii) and (iii) from the amount set out in item (i) by the amount set out in item (ii):

①When an insured person intends to receive payment of childcare short-time work benefits for the first time, the insured person must, within four months counting from the first day of the month subject to payment, submit to the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office having jurisdiction over the location of its place of business, via the employer, a written application stating the insured person's name, insured person number, Individual Number, date of commencement of childcare short-time work, date of birth of the child pertaining to the childcare short-time work application, prescribed weekly working hours before shortening, prescribed weekly working hours in the month subject to payment, the amount of wages paid in the month subject to payment, and other matters specified by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau (hereinafter referred to as the "childcare short-time work benefits qualification confirmation form and first childcare short-time work benefits application" in the following paragraph and paragraph (7)), attaching the wage certification slip at the commencement of leave, etc., the maternal and child health handbook, a roster of workers, a wage ledger, and other documents capable of proving the existence of the child pertaining to the childcare short-time work, the fact that the insured person is employed, the fact that the prescribed weekly working hours have been shortened, the status of payment of wages, and the amount of wages; provided, however, that where it is difficult, for an unavoidable reason, to submit that written application via the employer, it may be submitted without going via the employer.

②When the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office finds that an insured person who has submitted the childcare short-time work benefits qualification confirmation form and first childcare short-time work benefits application pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph falls under Article 61-12, paragraph (1) of the Act, the Chief must notify that insured person to the effect that childcare short-time work benefits are to be paid for the month subject to payment pertaining to that application for payment, and must also determine the period in which that person is to file an application for payment of childcare short-time work benefits for a month subject to payment (excluding a month subject to payment pertaining to an application for payment already made; the same applies in paragraph (4)), and inform that person of it.

③In determining the period for filing an application for payment prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office must determine it, for one month subject to payment or two consecutive months subject to payment, within a scope not exceeding four months counting from the first day of that month subject to payment; provided, however, that this does not apply where the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office finds it necessary.

④When an insured person who has received the notice under the provisions of paragraph (2) intends to receive payment of childcare short-time work benefits for a month subject to payment, the insured person must, within the period in which the procedure for payment of childcare short-time work benefits prescribed in the preceding paragraph is to be carried out, submit to the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office having jurisdiction over the location of its place of business, via the employer, a written application stating the insured person's name, insured person number, the date of birth of the child pertaining to the childcare short-time work application, the prescribed weekly working hours in the month subject to payment, the amount of wages paid in the month subject to payment, and other matters specified by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau (referred to as the "childcare short-time work benefits application" in paragraph (7)); provided, however, that where it is difficult, for an unavoidable reason, to submit that written application via the employer, it may be submitted without going via the employer.

⑤The provisions of paragraph (2) through the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to an insured person who has submitted a childcare short-time work benefits application pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph (including as applied mutatis mutandis in this paragraph).

⑥Notwithstanding paragraphs (1) and (4), an insured person may, as provided by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau, omit attaching the documents prescribed in them.

⑦A notification under paragraph (1) or (4) (limited to one submitted via the employer) is, where that employer is the employer of a place of business of a specified corporation, to be made by submitting the matters to be stated in those documents, using an electronic data processing system, in lieu of submitting the childcare short-time work benefits qualification confirmation form and first childcare short-time work benefits application and the documents prescribed in paragraph (1), or the childcare short-time work benefits application; provided, however, that this does not apply where it is found difficult to use an electronic data processing system due to a breakdown of a telecommunications line, a disaster or other reason, and where it is found that the notification can be made without using an electronic data processing system.

⑧The provisions of paragraph (6) apply mutatis mutandis to the case of the preceding paragraph.

⑨When an insured person falls under any of items (i) through (iii), with regard to the child pertaining to the notification under paragraph (1), before the first day of the period during which the person engaged in childcare short-time work pertaining to that notification, the insured person must, before that notification, make the notification prescribed in each of those items respectively:

The provisions of Article 44 (excluding paragraph (4)), Article 45, paragraph (1), Article 46, paragraph (1), Article 101-5, paragraph (8), Article 101-6 and Article 101-9 apply mutatis mutandis to the payment of childcare leave benefits, etc. In this case, in these provisions, the phrases "to a qualified recipient" and "to that qualified recipient" are deemed to be replaced with "to a person who is able to receive childcare leave benefits, etc." and "to that person who is able to receive childcare leave benefits, etc." respectively, the phrase "of the qualified recipient" with "of the person who is able to receive childcare leave benefits, etc.", the phrases "A qualified recipient who receives" and "a qualified recipient (excluding" with "A person who is able to receive childcare leave benefits, etc. who receives" and "a person who is able to receive childcare leave benefits, etc. (excluding" respectively, the phrase "qualified recipient paid by bank transfer" with "person who receives payment of childcare leave benefits, etc. by the method prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (1)", the phrase "competent Public Employment Security Office" with "Public Employment Security Office having jurisdiction over the location of its place of business", the phrase "that qualified recipient has been issued" with "that person who is able to receive childcare leave benefits, etc. has been issued", and the phrase "the continuous employment benefits for the elderly qualification confirmation form / (initial) written application for continuous employment benefits for the elderly and in the written application for continuous employment benefits for the elderly" with "the childcare leave-related benefits qualification confirmation form and first childcare leave benefits / post-birth leave support benefits application prescribed in Article 101-30, paragraph (1) and in the childcare leave benefits application prescribed in paragraph (4) of that Article, the childcare leave-related benefits qualification confirmation form and parental leave benefits / post-birth leave support benefits application prescribed in Article 101-33, paragraph (1), the application for post-birth leave support benefits prescribed in Article 101-42, paragraph (2), and the childcare short-time work benefits qualification confirmation form and first childcare short-time work benefits application prescribed in Article 101-48, paragraph (1) and in the childcare short-time work benefits application prescribed in paragraph (4) of that Article".