The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has decided to continue the special measures of the "employment adjustment subsidy" for the areas where "priority measures such as prevention of spread" have been issued until the end of August, considering that the severe employment situation continues. ..
The "Employment Adjustment Subsidy" is a system that subsidizes part of the leave allowance, etc., when a company maintains employment by taking employees off even if sales decrease.
According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the number of payment decisions from February last year to the 11th of this month amounted to 3,571,791 yen, amounting to 3,727.6 billion yen.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has implemented special measures in some regions and companies to raise the daily subsidy limit to 15,000 yen and raise the subsidy rate to a maximum of 100% for both large and small companies.
Specifically, companies that cooperate in taking leave or shortening business hours based on requests from local governments in the target areas of "emergency declaration" and "priority measures such as spread prevention", and sales in the last 3 months are the previous This applies to companies nationwide, which has decreased by more than 30% compared to a year or two years ago.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has set the deadline for this special measure as the end of July, but decided to continue until the end of August because the severe employment situation continues.
In other regions and companies, the maximum daily subsidy is 13,500 yen, and the maximum subsidy rate is 90% for small and medium-sized enterprises and 75% for large enterprises, and this level will continue in August. Is to do.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare wants to decide what to do after September, taking into account the employment situation.