Supplementary Provisions, Article 2Transitional Measures

①With regard to the monthly amount of the commuting allowance for months on or before March 1990, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

②With regard to the payment of the employment adjustment grant under Article 102-2 of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act before amendment (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Ordinance") pertaining to secondment (meaning secondment prescribed in Article 102-3, paragraph (1), item (ii), (c) of the Former Ordinance) carried out before the day on which this Ministerial Order comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date"), the provisions then in force continue to govern.

③With regard to the payment of the grant for employment development of specified job seekers under Article 109 of the Former Ordinance and the regional employment incentive under Article 112, paragraph (1) of the Former Ordinance pertaining to hiring on a day before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

④For the application of the provisions of Article 112, paragraph (2), item (i), (c), (2) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Insurance Act after amendment (hereinafter referred to as the "New Ordinance") to an employer whose date of commencement of operations prescribed in Article 112, paragraph (2), item (i), (b) of the Former Ordinance is before the Effective Date, "six months" in Article 112, paragraph (2), item (i), (c), (2) of the New Ordinance is deemed to be replaced with "one year".

⑤With regard to the payment of the special regional employment incentive under Article 112, paragraph (1) of the Former Ordinance to an employer whose completion date prescribed in Article 112, paragraph (2), item (i), (c), (2) of the Former Ordinance is before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

⑥Where an employer that would be eligible to receive payment of the regional employment incentive under the provision of Article 112, paragraph (2) of the Former Ordinance if that provision were to remain in effect on or after the Effective Date, and that is an employer other than an employer prescribed in Article 112, paragraph (2), item (i) of the New Ordinance (such an employer is hereinafter referred to as an "employer eligible under the former rules"), in conjunction with the establishment or improvement of a target workplace prescribed in (b) of that item (hereinafter referred to as the "target workplace" in this paragraph and the following paragraph), during the period from the Effective Date until June 30, 1990 (September 30, 1990, in the case of an employer recognized as contributing particularly to an increase in employment), hires, through referral by a Public Employment Security Office, as a worker to be continuously employed (excluding a part-time worker prescribed in Article 18-2, paragraph (1) of the New Ordinance), an employment development promotion area job seeker prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (viii) of the Act on Promotion of Regional Employment Development, etc. (Act No. 23 of 1987) (excluding job seekers aged 65 or older, job seekers in workplace adaptation training prescribed in Article 110, paragraph (1), item (i) of the New Ordinance, and persons recognized as being able to find employment easily) pertaining to the employment development promotion area prescribed in item (ii) of that paragraph in which the target workplace is located or an employment development promotion area prescribed in that item that is adjacent to that employment development promotion area, the regional employment incentive under Article 112, paragraph (1) of the New Ordinance pertaining to that hiring is to be paid to that employer eligible under the former rules, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article. In this case, the amount of that regional employment incentive is 1/8 (1/6 in the case of a small and medium-sized enterprise employer prescribed in Article 102-3, paragraph (1), item (ii), (a), (5) of the New Ordinance) of the amount of wages paid to the person pertaining to that hiring for the one-year period counting from the day on which the operations of the business pertaining to the establishment or improvement of the target workplace were commenced (where the amount obtained by applying that rate exceeds the amount obtained by multiplying the maximum daily basic allowance amount prescribed in paragraph (2), item (i) of that Article by 300, the amount obtained by multiplying that maximum daily basic allowance amount by 300).

⑦Among employers that fall under Article 112, paragraph (2), item (i), (a), (3) of the New Ordinance or are employers eligible under the former rules and that are eligible for payment of the regional employment incentive under paragraph (1) of that Article, where an employer for which the day on which it submits to the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office having jurisdiction over the location of the target workplace the notification that the establishment or improvement of that target workplace has been completed (in the case where it does not submit that notification by June 30, 1990 (September 30, 1990, in the case of an employer recognized as contributing particularly to an increase in employment; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph), June 30, 1990; referred to as the "completion date" hereinafter in this paragraph) is on or after the Effective Date, in conjunction with the establishment or improvement of the target workplace, during the period until the completion date, hires five or more workers pertaining to payment of that regional employment incentive (hereinafter referred to as "workers subject to payment" in this paragraph) (three or more in the case of a small enterprise employer prescribed in Article 102-4, paragraph (3) of the New Ordinance), the special regional employment incentive under Article 112, paragraph (1) of the New Ordinance is to be paid to that employer, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (3) of that Article, in accordance with the number of workers subject to payment hired, up to the amount of the expenses pertaining to hiring those workers subject to payment; provided, however, that when an employer eligible for payment of that special regional employment incentive comes to fall under any of the following items, that special regional employment incentive is not to be paid from that time on.

⑧The insurance record book for insured day workers under Article 73, paragraph (1) of the Former Ordinance that is actually issued at the time of enforcement of this Ministerial Order is deemed to be the insurance record book for insured day workers under Article 73, paragraph (1) of the New Ordinance.