一being a certified association, etc. or employer that falls under any of the following:

イbeing a certified association, etc. that falls under all of the following:

（１）being a certified association, etc. that carries out an improvement project prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Manpower Securing Act that is listed in (i) and (ii) below (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as a "small and medium-sized enterprise work environment improvement project");

（ｉ）a project concerning improvement of employment management that contributes to securing the labor force and retaining workers at the workplace in the small and medium-sized enterprises that are its members (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as "member small and medium-sized enterprises");

（ｉｉ）a survey on the status of improvement of employment management at member small and medium-sized enterprises through the implementation of the project under (i), and guidance and other assistance to those member small and medium-sized enterprises based on that survey;

（２）being a certified association, etc. that has prepared a plan concerning the implementation of the small and medium-sized enterprise work environment improvement project and submitted it to the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau;

ロbeing an employer that falls under all of (1) through (7) below:

（１）being an employer that falls under (i) or (ii) below:

（ｉ）being an employer that, as provided in collective agreements or rules of employment, has implemented, and applied to workers, any of the following measures (referred to as "development of employment management systems" in (2)) that fall under any of (a) through (e) below (limited to a small and medium-sized enterprise employer in the case of implementing and applying to workers the measure under (a));

（イ）a measure to develop a system for determining wages according to duties, etc.;

（ロ）a measure to introduce an allowance, bonus or retirement allowance system specified by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau;

（ハ）a measure to develop a personnel evaluation system that contributes to improving productivity;

（ニ）a measure such as a health examination by a physician (excluding the health examinations prescribed in Article 66, paragraphs (1), (2) and (4) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act);

（ホ）a measure to support the resolution of issues in career formation and problems in the workplace;

（ｉｉ）being an employer that has introduced, and appropriately operated, equipment or facilities determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau as contributing to the improvement of employment management (referred to as "equipment, etc. for improving employment management" in (2));

（２）being an employer that, in carrying out the development of employment management systems or the introduction of equipment, etc. for improving employment management (hereinafter in this item referred to as "development of employment management systems, etc."), has submitted to the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau a plan concerning that development of employment management systems, etc. (hereinafter in this item and the following paragraph referred to as a "plan for development of employment management systems, etc.") and obtained certification;

（３）being an employer that is found to be conducting appropriate employment management, judging from the number, etc. of those, among persons who had been employed at the place of business pertaining to that development of employment management systems, etc. and separated from service during the period from the day six months before, counting from the day preceding the first day of the period of the plan for development of employment management systems, etc., until the written application for receipt of the grant for the Human Resources Securing, etc. Support Course (limited to that pertaining to the grant for the development of employment management systems, etc.) is submitted to the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau (hereinafter in this (3) referred to as the "reference period"), for whom determination of recipient qualification was made during that reference period as specific qualified recipients;

（４）being an employer that maintains documents clarifying the status of the burden of the expenses required for that development of employment management systems, etc. and its operation, and the status of separation from service of workers at the place of business pertaining to that development of employment management systems, etc.;

（５）being an employer for which the ratio obtained by dividing the number of persons who separated from service at the place of business pertaining to that development of employment management systems, etc. during the period until the day on which one year elapses counting from the day following the last day of the period of the plan for development of employment management systems, etc., by the number of workers at that place of business on the day following the last day of the period of that plan, has achieved the target value determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau according to the number of workers at that place of business;

（６）being an employer that is found to be conducting appropriate employment management, judging from the number, etc. of those, among persons who had been employed at the place of business pertaining to that development of employment management systems, etc. and separated from service during the period from the day following the last day of the period of the plan for development of employment management systems, etc. until the written application for receipt of the grant for the Human Resources Securing, etc. Support Course (limited to that under the provisions of this (b)) is submitted to the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau (hereinafter in this (6) referred to as the "reference period"), for whom determination of recipient qualification was made during that reference period as specific qualified recipients;

（７）being an employer that has appointed, as the employment management officer, a person who manages matters concerning efforts to improve the employment management of workers, responses to consultations from workers, and other improvement, etc. of the employment management of workers, and has made that appointment known by posting at the place of business or otherwise;

ハbeing an employer that has made, for workers it employs, the notification pertaining to hiring under Article 28, paragraph (1) of the Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures, and Stabilizing the Employment of Workers, and Enriching Workers' Vocational Lives (referred to as "notification of the employment status of foreign nationals" in (1)), and that falls under all of the following:

（１）being an employer that falls under either (i) or (ii) below:

（ｉ）an employer that has implemented, and applied to foreign workers (meaning persons currently employed by that employer and subject to the notification of the employment status of foreign nationals pertaining to that employer; the same applies hereinafter in this (c)), the measures set out in (a) and (b) below (excluding an employer that falls under (ii));

（イ）a measure to make known, by posting at the place of business or other means, that a person who manages matters concerning the improvement, etc. of employment management of foreign workers has been appointed as an employment and labor responsibility officer for each place of business that employs foreign workers, and that the employment and labor responsibility officer will respond to complaints or consultations from foreign workers;

（ロ）a measure such as describing collective agreements, rules of employment and other documents specified by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau in the native language of the foreign workers it employs or another language used by those foreign workers, or in plain Japanese;

（ｉｉ）an employer that, in addition to the measures listed in (i), (a) and (b), has implemented, as provided in collective agreements or rules of employment, a measure to have foreign workers take paid leave (excluding leave granted as annual paid leave) necessary where they wish to return to their home country temporarily, and has applied those measures to foreign workers;

（２）being an employer that, in carrying out the measures listed in (1) (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as "improvement of the working environment"), has submitted to the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau a plan concerning that improvement of the working environment (hereinafter in this item referred to as a "working environment improvement plan") and obtained certification;

（３）being an employer other than an employer that dismissed workers of the place of business pertaining to that plan during the period from the day six months before, counting from the day preceding the first day of the period of the working environment improvement plan, until the last day of the period of the working environment improvement plan (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);

（４）being an employer that maintains documents clarifying the status of implementation of the improvement of the working environment and the status of separation from service of workers at the place of business pertaining to that improvement of the working environment;

（５）being an employer for which, with respect to foreign workers, the ratio obtained by dividing the number of persons who separated from service at the place of business pertaining to that improvement of the working environment during the period until the day on which six months elapse counting from the day following the last day of the period of the working environment improvement plan, by the number of workers at that place of business on the day following the last day of the period of that working environment improvement plan, has achieved the target value determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau;

ニbeing an employer that falls under all of the following:

（１）being an employer that has, as provided in collective agreements or rules of employment, put in place a system concerning work utilizing information and communications technology that is determined by the Director-General of the Employment Environment and Equal Employment Bureau, and implemented a measure to enable work utilizing information and communications technology (limited to one determined by the Director-General of the Employment Environment and Equal Employment Bureau), and that has had workers it employs perform work utilizing information and communications technology;

（２）being an employer that maintains records clarifying the status of separation from service of workers at the place of business to which workers designated by the employer as persons subject to work utilizing information and communications technology (hereinafter in this Article referred to as "covered workers") belong;

（３）being a small and medium-sized enterprise employer;

（４）being an employer for which the implementation status of work utilizing information and communications technology by covered workers during the period set by the employer, in accordance with what is determined by the Director-General of the Employment Environment and Equal Employment Bureau, as a period for evaluating the implementation status of work utilizing information and communications technology (referred to as the "evaluation period" in the following paragraph) meets the requirements determined by the Director-General of the Employment Environment and Equal Employment Bureau;

二the amount specified in the relevant provision according to the categories of certified associations, etc. or employers set out in (a) through (d) below.

イa certified association, etc. that falls under (a) of the preceding item: an amount equivalent to 2/3 of the amount of expenses required for the small and medium-sized enterprise work environment improvement project (limited to one based on the plan under (a), (2) of that item) (where that 2/3 amount exceeds the amount specified in the relevant one of (1) through (3) below according to the categories of the number of member small and medium-sized enterprises set out in (1) through (3) below, that specified amount) is to be paid;

（１）less than 100: 6,000,000 yen;

（２）100 or more but less than 500: 8,000,000 yen;

（３）500 or more: 10,000,000 yen;

ロan employer that falls under (b) of the preceding item: the total amount of the amounts set out in (1) and (2) below;

（１）in the case of an employer that falls under (b), (1), (i) of the preceding item, the amount specified in the relevant provision according to the categories of employers set out in (i) through (v) below (where an employer falls under two or more of (i) through (v), the total amount of the amounts specified in those provisions) (where that amount exceeds 800,000 yen, 800,000 yen (for an employer that has increased the wages of the workers it employs at or above the rate determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau, where that amount exceeds 1,000,000 yen, 1,000,000 yen));

（ｉ）an employer that has taken the measure under (b), (1), (i), (a) of the preceding item: 400,000 yen (500,000 yen for an employer that has increased the wages of the workers it employs at or above the rate determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau);

（ｉｉ）an employer that has taken the measure under (b), (1), (i), (b) of the preceding item: 400,000 yen (500,000 yen for an employer that has increased the wages of the workers it employs at or above the rate determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau);

（ｉｉｉ）an employer that has taken the measure under (b), (1), (i), (c) of the preceding item: 400,000 yen (500,000 yen for an employer that has increased the wages of the workers it employs at or above the rate determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau);

（ｉｖ）an employer that has taken the measure under (b), (1), (i), (d) of the preceding item: 200,000 yen (250,000 yen for an employer that has increased the wages of the workers it employs at or above the rate determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau);

（ｖ）an employer that has taken the measure under (b), (1), (i), (e) of the preceding item: 200,000 yen (250,000 yen for an employer that has increased the wages of the workers it employs at or above the rate determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau);

（２）in the case of an employer that has introduced the equipment, etc. for improving employment management under (b), (1), (ii) of the preceding item (hereinafter in this (2) referred to as "equipment, etc. for improving employment management"), the amount specified in the relevant provision according to the categories of employers set out below:

（ｉ）an employer that has increased the wages of the workers it employs at or above the rate determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau: the amount obtained by adding, to an amount equivalent to 1/2 of the amount of expenses required for the introduction of the equipment, etc. for improving employment management (where that 1/2 amount exceeds 1,500,000 yen, 1,500,000 yen; referred to as the "amount equal to one half" in (ii)), an amount equivalent to 1/8 or 1/4 of the amount of expenses required for the introduction of the equipment, etc. for improving employment management, as determined by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau according to the rate of that wage increase (where an amount equivalent to 1/8 is added and the total amount exceeds 1,875,000 yen, 1,875,000 yen, and where an amount equivalent to 1/4 is added and the total amount exceeds 2,250,000 yen, 2,250,000 yen);

（ｉｉ）an employer other than that under (i): the amount equal to one half;

ハan employer that falls under (c) of the preceding item: the amount specified in the relevant provision according to the categories of employers set out in (1) and (2) below;

（１）an employer that falls under (c), (1), (i) of the preceding item: 200,000 yen;

（２）an employer that falls under (c), (1), (ii) of the preceding item: 250,000 yen;

ニan employer that falls under (d) of the preceding item: 200,000 yen.

一being an employer for which the ratio obtained by dividing the number of persons who separated from service at the place of business under item (i), (d), (2) of the preceding paragraph during the period until the day on which one year elapses counting from the day following the last day of the evaluation period, by the number of workers at that place of business on the day following the last day of the evaluation period, has achieved the target value determined by the Director-General of the Employment Environment and Equal Employment Bureau;

二being an employer for which the implementation status of work utilizing information and communications technology at the place of business under item (i), (d), (2) of the preceding paragraph, during the period from the day on which one year has elapsed counting from the first day of the evaluation period until the day on which three months elapse from that day, meets the requirements determined by the Director-General of the Employment Environment and Equal Employment Bureau.