In order to strengthen support for non-regular workers whose income has decreased due to the effects of the new coronavirus, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare will target the "Job Seeker Support System" to receive vocational training while receiving benefits until the end of September. It was decided to expand.
The "Job Seeker Support System" is a system that allows people who are not covered by employment insurance or who have completed the unemployment benefit payment period to take vocational training while receiving a monthly benefit of 100,000 yen. Is using it.
The issue is to support non-regular workers whose income has declined as the effects of the new coronavirus continue, and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has decided to expand the scope of the system until the end of September.
Specifically, for shift workers and freelance workers, the requirement is relaxed from "monthly income of 80,000 yen or less" to "monthly income of 120,000 yen or less", and when receiving training while working, the reason is attendance etc. We have decided to allow up to 20% of the absenteeism of the training.
In addition, for vocational training such as long-term care and IT, we will create a new 2-week course with a short period, shorten the required training time from "100 hours or more" to "60 hours or more", and conduct online training Make it easier to use the system, such as increasing it.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has a policy of further focusing on disseminating the system, such as opening a dedicated consultation desk for Hello Work, aiming to increase the number of participants from about 20,000 to about 50,000, which is more than double. It is said.