Subsidy for maintaining employment Speeding up the number of staff tripled Tokyo Labor Bureau May 14 17:56
As the effects of the new coronavirus on companies become serious, the Tokyo Labor Bureau will respond by increasing the number of staff in charge of procedures to triple the number of staff in order to more quickly provide subsidies to maintain employment. started.
Since February, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has been calling on companies to utilize the subsidy system and employment adjustment subsidy to maintain employment. According to the Tokyo Labor Bureau, there were 2425 applications in Tokyo by the 13th, of which 1579 were decided to be paid.
As the number of applications is expected to increase in the future, the Tokyo Labor Bureau set up a new branch office on the 13th, and started handling it with about 100 employees, which is three times the amount of the existing office. This means that we are aiming to reduce the period from application to payment, which currently takes about one month, to about two weeks.
Tokuo Mobara, Occupational Measures Manager, Tokyo Labor Bureau said, "We are doing our best to process the application within 2 weeks from the application to the decision of payment. If you are in trouble, use the employment adjustment subsidy to hire. I want you to protect it. "