Regarding the special measures for employment adjustment subsidies for business owners affected by the new corona, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has begun to adjust the deadline until the end of next month to the end of May.
The employment adjustment subsidy is a system that subsidizes part of the leave allowance when the employer maintains the employment of employees. For employers affected by the new corona, the upper limit of the subsidy and the subsidy There are special measures for the rate.
Specifically, in areas subject to priority measures such as state of emergency and prevention of spread, business owners who responded to requests for leave or shortening of business hours, or sales for the last 3 months are either up to 3 years ago. For business owners nationwide, which has decreased by more than 30% compared to the year, the upper limit of the subsidy is raised to 15,000 yen per day, and the subsidy rate is raised to a maximum of 100% for both large companies and small and medium-sized enterprises.
For other business owners, we are taking measures such as raising the subsidy rate to a maximum of 90% for small and medium-sized enterprises and a maximum of 75% for large enterprises.
The deadline for special measures is the end of next month, but the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has begun making adjustments to extend it by two months until the end of May, saying that the employment situation is still severe.
And we will decide the policy within the month.
Since the special measures were set up, the total amount of employment adjustment subsidies that have been decided to be paid by the 18th of this month has reached more than 5,370 billion yen.