The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has decided to extend the special measures for employment adjustment subsidies until the end of June, saying that the effects of the new corona are continuing.
The employment adjustment subsidy is a system in which a part of the leave allowance is subsidized when a company keeps employment of employees, and special measures are provided for companies affected by the new corona.
Specifically, in the target areas such as "Priority measures such as spread prevention", companies that cooperated in taking leave or shortening business hours, and the monthly average sales of the last 3 months are any of the years up to 3 years ago. In comparison, we have raised the daily upper limit to 15,000 yen for companies that have decreased by 30% or more, and raised the subsidy rate to a maximum of 100% for both large companies and small and medium-sized companies.
For other companies, we have raised the subsidy rate to a maximum of 90% for SMEs and a maximum of 75% for large companies.
The deadline for special measures was until the end of March, but the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has decided to extend it until the end of June, saying that the effects of the new corona are continuing.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare was initially making adjustments to extend it until the end of May, but decided to extend it until the end of June due to opinions from the ruling party requesting further strengthening of support.
According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the amount of the employment adjustment subsidy has reached more than 5.3 trillion yen from February to February 18, when special measures were set up.
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