Regarding the special measures of the "employment adjustment subsidy", the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare will continue to target restaurants that cooperated in shortening business hours in areas where the infection of the new coronavirus is spreading, at least until the end of June. I decided.
The "Employment Adjustment Subsidy" is a system that subsidizes part of the leave allowance, etc., when a company maintains employment by taking a leave of absence from employees even if sales decrease.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has taken special measures such as raising the daily subsidy limit to 15,000 yen for companies affected by the new coronavirus and raising the subsidy rate to a maximum of 100% for both large companies and small and medium-sized companies. going.
The policy for this special measure if the state of emergency is lifted by March was announced on the 12th.
According to this, the sales of restaurants, etc. that cooperate in shortening business hours in the target areas of "Priority Measures for Prevention of Spread" and the sales of the last 3 months decreased by 30% or more compared to the previous year or 2 years ago. The current special measures will continue until the end of June for those companies.
On the other hand, for other companies, the upper limit of the subsidy from May to 1st will be 13,500 yen, and the maximum subsidy rate will be 90% for small and medium-sized enterprises and 75% for large enterprises.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has a policy of reducing special measures after July unless the employment situation deteriorates significantly.