#### 17. Employment measures within Immediate Economic Measures for Future Growth and Security (December 2009) FY2009 second supplementary budget of ¥598.4 billion

→ Reinforcement of immediate measures, and promotion of employment strategies

Relaxation of the requirements for the employment adjustment subsidy

• In addition to the current requirements regarding the "volume of production" enterprises with deficits were subjected to the payment of the subsidy regardless of the scale if they had "10% or more of a production reduction from the year prior to the previous year"

Reinforcement of support for the poor and needy

• Support for implementation of "One-Stop Service Day", enhancement of one-stop consultation functions of Hello Works (placement of "housing/living support advisors")

• Continued "housing allowance" support and establishment of "emergency temporary accommodation facilities" through renting vacant company dormitories, etc.

Reinforcement of support for new graduates

• Immediate expansion of "job supporters for employing high school and university graduates"

• Creation of "experience-oriented trial employment projects for new graduates" in thereby supporting business operators that employ unemployed graduates on an experience oriented trial basis

Creation of employment in priority areas

• Creation of new employment opportunities in certain areas, including long-term care, medical care, agriculture and forestry, and environment and energy, etc., and the promotion of human resource development according to local needs

#### 18. Economic Measures within 3 Stages toward the Realization of New Growth Strategy (September 2010) FY2010 contingency funds for local revitalization and economic crisis (employment related MHLW portion) of ¥117.6 billion

→ Immediate response to high exchange rate of the yen and deflation (step 1)

Immediate measures for employment of new graduates

• "Subsidy for promoting trial employment of non-new graduates within three years of graduation", and "subsidy for promoting employment of non-new graduates within three years of graduation (new graduate equivalent)"

• Doubling the number of placements of job supporters involved in the employment of high school and university graduates (from 928 to 1,753)

• Establishment of "New Graduate Supporting Hello Works" that specializes in supporting new graduates at every prefectural labour office

• Revision of the "Guidelines for Securing Employment Opportunities for Young People" to include "treatment of non-new graduates within three years of graduation as new graduates"

Employment creation/human resource development support

• Implementation of personal support model projects

• Enhancement of projects on employment creation in priority areas (¥100.0 billion)

#### 19. Immediate Comprehensive Measures against High Exchange Rate of Yen and Deflation (October 2010) FY2010 supplementary budget (employment related MHLW portion) of ¥317.0 billion

→ Flexible response with business conditions and employment trends taken into account (step 2)

Reinforcement of support for new graduates and young people

• Increase in number of "job supporters" (from 1,753 to 2,003)

• Enhancement of special subsidy for promoting regular employment of young people, etc. (expanded application to include those younger than 25)

Sustaining employment and living support via employment adjustment subsidy, etc.

• Relaxation of the requirements for employment adjustment subsidy (reconsideration of the system)

• Extending the period of "enhancement of 'housing measures'" (payment of housing allowance, etc.) to the end of FY2011 (reconsideration of the system)

Employment creation/human resource development

• Enhancement of projects involving employment creation in priority areas (¥100.0 billion)

• Extension of immediate human resource development support projects, etc. (¥101.3 billion)

• Implementation of support projects on human resource development in growth areas, etc. (¥50.0 billion)

### 20. Promotion of employment/labour policies with the severe economic environment (FY2011 budget)

### FY2011 budget (employment related MHLW portion) of ¥254.7 billion

→ Promotion of full scale “Employment/Human Resource Strategies” (Step 3) in consideration of “Employment Strategies/Basic Policies 2011”

The three main pillars of “maintaining”, “creating”, and “securing” employment

“Maintaining” employment

• Promotion of immediate employment creation projects (¥11 billion)

• Establishment of trampoline-type safety net

Creation of job seeker support system (¥77.5 billion)

Promotion of personal support, etc.

“Creating” employment

• Effective implementation of projects on employment creation in priority areas that are being enhanced by economic measures and newly established support projects regarding human resource development in growth areas, etc.

“Securing” employment

• Utilization of employment adjustment subsidies

### 21. "Japan as One' Work Project" for employment support and creation for the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake → Promotion of employment support and creation for the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake

Phase 1 (compiled on April 5, immediate comprehensive measures without budgetary measures)

Steady employment creation through reconstruction projects, etc.

• Enhancement of projects on employment creation in priority areas (inclusion of “reconstruction areas”, abolishment of one year limitation on employment period)

• Enhancement of employment period of immediate employment creation projects (abolishment of one year limitation on employment period)

Enhancement of systems to use in matching the disaster victims with jobs

• Creation of “Japan as One” Work Council

Maintaining/securing employment for the disaster victims

• Enhancement of employment adjustment subsidy (review of the system)

Phase 2 (compiled on April 27, with the 1st supplementary budget, etc.; employment related MHLW portion of ¥1,227.7 billion)

Steady employment creation through reconstruction projects, etc.

• Enhancement of employment creation fund projects (¥50 billion)

Support for new employment for the disaster victims

• Enhancement of subsidies for enterprises that employ the disaster victims

• On-site consultation at evacuation shelters and job offer development according to the needs of the disaster victims

Maintaining the employment and stable lives of the disaster victims

• Enhancement of employment adjustment subsidy (¥726.9 billion)

• Enhancement of extended employment insurance benefits (¥294.1 billion)

Phase 3 (compiled on October 25, with the 3rd supplementary budget, etc.; employment related MHLW portion of ¥392.3 billion)

Employment creation through recovery/reconstruction of local economies/industries

Integrated support for industrial reconstruction and employment measures

• Creation of "business reconstruction type employment creation projects" and "lifelong commitment/full participation/generational succession type employment creation projects" (¥151 billion)

• Implementation of immediate employment measure projects in response to the earthquake disaster, etc. (¥200 billion)

Support for development of human resources that support reconstruction and towards stable employment, etc.

• Expansion of the scale of training, etc. available through public vocational training according to the needs of the disaster-stricken areas (¥15.1 billion)

• Extension of the disaster victim special provisions for projects that realize the employment of new graduates, etc., and further enhancement of support for new graduates through increasing the number of job supporters, etc. (¥23.7 billion)

• Extension of employment insurance benefits (review of the system)

### 22 Comprehensive Measures against Yen Appreciation – Toward Creation of a Robust Risk-free Society – (October 2011) FY2011 third supplementary budget of ¥392.5 billion

→ Forestalling the risks of an economic slowdown and hollowing-out of industry due to rapid progress in the yen appreciation

Employment opportunity creation support for those unemployed due to the effect of the earthquake disaster and high exchange rate of the yen

• Enhancement of reconstruction projects through increasing funding for projects on employment creation in priority areas by ¥200 billion and extension of the period of the enhanced project until the end of FY2013

Employment support for those affected by the effect of the earthquake disaster and high exchange rate of the yen

• Employment of employment adjustment subsidy, etc. (review of the system)

• Employment support for new graduates, etc.

Extension of the implementation period of the "subsidy to promote employment of non-new graduates within three years after graduation (new graduates equivalent)" and "subsidy to promote trial employment of non-new graduates within three years after graduation (projects for realizing employment of new graduates)"

Increase in the number of job supporters (from 2,103 to 2,203)

Enhancement of vocational training, etc.

• Enhancement of public vocational training (review of the system)

• Enhancement of support projects involving human resource development in priority areas (review of the system)