The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has paid employees a leave allowance for areas where a state of emergency has been declared and local governments that take similar measures for "employment adjustment subsidies" that can be used by poorly managed companies to maintain employment. We also plan to raise the subsidy rate to 100% for large companies that cooperate in refraining from doing so, and are calling on companies to maintain employment.
The "employment adjustment subsidy" is a system in which the government subsidizes part of the leave allowance, etc., when the company maintains employment by taking employees off even if sales decrease.
In light of the impact of the new coronavirus, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has implemented special measures such as raising the subsidy rate for leave allowances paid to employees to 75% for large companies and 100% for small and medium-sized companies.
We have decided to raise the subsidy rate to 100% for large companies such as the food service industry that cooperate in refraining from doing so in the 1 metropolitan area and 3 prefectures where the state of emergency was declared. It will be applied to local governments that take the measures of.
At restaurants and other places where shortening of business hours is required, there are a number of cases in which non-regular employees are reduced in shifts but do not receive sufficient leave allowances, and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said, "Is it a burden for large companies? I want companies to actively utilize employment adjustment subsidies to protect the lives of workers because they are no longer available. "