→ New Employment Strategy - Toward Realization of Society for All -

Realization of vocational independence of young people

• "Plan to Turn Freeters, etc. into Regular Workers"

• Enhanced vocational independence support for NEETs, etc.

• Development/enhancement of Job Card system

Realization of employment for female job seekers (increase of up to 200,000 (females aged 25-44) within 3 years)

• Implementation of "New Strategy for No Wait-listed Children at Daycare Centers"

• Work-life balance support

• Enhancement of re-employment/enterprise/continued employment support

Realization of a society where people can work regardless of age (increase of 1 million persons (aged 60-64) within 3 years)

• Promotion of employment of elderly in enabling them to continue to work if they desire to

• Promotion of "Baby Boomer Frontier Project"

• Promotion of meaningful lives for the elderly through a variety of work style employment

"Five Year Plan to Promote AeTransition from Welfare to Employment"

Realization of stable employment/lives and development of environment where people can work satisfactorily without anxiety

#### 12. Employment measures within Immediate Comprehensive Measures for Realizing Security (August 2008) FY2008 first supplementary budget of ¥9.94 billion

→ Promotion of non-regular employment measures, etc.

Promotion of non-regular employment measures, etc.

• Creation of public assistance benefits during vocational training (¥100,000 per month), etc.

• Establishment of employment support centers for non-regular workers (hereinafter referred to as Career Up Hello Works) (3 centers)

Continued employment support for small- and medium-sized enterprises

• Enhancement of continued employment support for small- and medium-sized enterprises (creation of immediate employment security subsidy for small- and medium-sized enterprises)

Employment support for females, elderly, and persons with disabilities and security of long-term care services

• Expansion/improvement of Mothers' Hello Work projects (establishment of 10 new Mothers' Corners)

• Adding elderly aged 65 or older to the subsidy menus involving the employment development of designated job seekers (hereinafter referred to as "designated development subsidy"), and implementation of support for business operators that employ elderly aged 65 or older on a trial basis

• Extension of the payment period of designated development subsidy (from 1 year to 1.5 years)

• Expansion of specialized counselors for persons with disabilities (from 227 to 297 counselors) (cf. Immediate Comprehensive Measures for Realizing Security, budget scale of (payment of ¥500,000 for business operators that employ persons with no experience in long-term care work) approximately ¥14 trillion)

### 13. Employment measures within Life Measures (October 2008)

#### FY2008 second supplementary budget of ¥250.5 billion, FY2009 budget (additionally requested portion) of approximately ¥30.0 billion

→ Security in lives of the people

Immediate living expense support measures

• Efforts toward lowering employment insurance premiums, etc. (from 1.2 to 0.8%)

Employment safety net reinforcement measures

• Creation of special subsidy for promoting support for older freeters (¥1 million for small- and medium-sized enterprises, ¥0.5 million for large-sized enterprises)

• Expansion of Career Up Hello Works (from 3 to 5 centers)

• Enhancement of public assistance benefits during vocational training (raising the amount from ¥100,000 to ¥120,000, etc.)

• Enhancement of immediate employment security subsidy for small- and medium-sized enterprises and employment adjustment subsidy (raising the subsidy rate of small- and medium-sized enterprises from 2/3 to 4/5)

• Creation of Hometown Employment Reproduction Special Grant (¥250 billion)

Measure for securing living security

• Enhancement of subsidy for supporting human resource security and workplace adaptation in the area of long-term care (raising the amount from ¥0.5 million to ¥1 million for employing older freeters, etc.)

• Creation of model subsidy for promoting development of facilities for long-term care workers, etc. (subsidy of 1/2 of expenses)

• Creation of subsidy for promoting first step employment for persons with disabilities (payment of ¥1 million for employing anyone with a disability for the first time) (cf. Life Measures, budget scale of approximately ¥32 trillion)

##### 14. Employment measures within Immediate Measures for Living Protection (December 2008) FY2008 second supplementary budget of ¥154.2 billion, FY2009 budget (additionally requested portion) of approximately ¥130.0 billion

Housing/living measures

• Subsidy for business operators that continue to provide housing (¥40,000 to ¥60,000 per month, up to 6 months), housing/living support fund (up to ¥1.86 million), and maximum utilization of employment promotion housing

Continued employment measures

• Enhancement of employment adjustment subsidy (raising the subsidy rate of large-sized enterprises from 1/2 to 2/3)

• Creation of subsidy for promoting business operators employing dispatched workers as regular workers (¥1 million for small- and medium-sized enterprises, ¥0.5 million for large-sized enterprises)

Re-employment support measures

• Creation of immediate employment creation projects (¥150.0 billion)

• Implementation of long-term vocational training for stable employment, including expanding the scale of implementation of training for job leavers, etc.

(cf. Immediate Measures for Living Protection, budget scale of approximately ¥64 trillion)

Informal job offer cancellation measures

Reinforcement of functions of employment insurance system

#### 15. Employment measures within Economic Crisis Measures (April 2009) FY2009 first supplementary budget of ¥2,512.8 billion

→ Establishment of new safety net for non-regular workers, etc., security of continued employment, and promotion of employment opportunities, etc.

Enhancement of employment adjustment subsidy, etc.

• Raising the subsidy rate for avoiding the dismissal of workers, etc. (from 4/5 to 9/10 for small- and medium-sized enterprises, and from 2/3 to 3/4 for large-sized enterprises)

• Abolishment of the annual maximum number of benefit days (200 days)

Re-employment support/ability development measures

• Comprehensive support for vocational training, re-employment, and living using "immediate human resource development/employment support fund" (public assistance during vocational training (benefits of ¥100,000-120,000 per month and loans of up to ¥80,000 per month), etc.)

• Enhancement/reinforcement of vocational ability development support

• Measures for employment of persons with disabilities

• Drastic reinforcement of functions of Hello Works, etc.

Employment creation measures

• Increased payment for immediate employment creation projects, etc.

Dispatched worker protection measures, informal job offer cancellation measures, and support for foreign national workers, etc.

• Reinforcement of worker protection, including prevention of dispatched worker layoffs, etc.

• Informal job offer cancellation measures, etc.

• Support for foreign national workers

Housing/living support, etc.

• Support for securing housing and living expense loans along with continued living consultation/support, etc. for anyone that has lost their employment and housing (Loan of stop-gap funds (up to ¥100,000) and living expenses (up to ¥200,000 per month, up to 1 year), and payment of a housing allowance (up to 6 months), etc.)

### 16. Immediate Employment Measures (October 2009)

→ "Immediate Support Measures" and "Immediate Employment Creation Programs"

Immediate Support Measures

• Support for the poor and needy (reinforcement of support systems, including "One-Stop Services") and new graduates (immediate placement of "job supporters aiding in the employment of high school and university graduates")

• Reinforcement of continued employment (relaxation of the requirements for the payment of employment adjustment subsidy, etc.)

Promotion of "Immediate Employment Creation Programs"

• Creation of a system that enables people to be trained and acquire qualifications (certified care workers and class 2 home helpers) while working at long-term care facilities, etc.

• Improved operation of "Immediate Employment Creation Projects" and "Hometown Employment Reproduction Special Fund Projects", and front-loaded execution of "Immediate Employment Creation Projects", etc.