#### 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 reserve fund 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 specialize 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 involving human resource development in priority areas (¥50.0 billion)

### 20. Promotion of employment/labour policies with the severe economic environment (FY2011 budget) FY2011 budget (employment related MHLW portion) of ¥2,547 billion

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

Creation of a support system for job seekers

• Creation and permanent establishment of a system that provided free vocational training and livelihood support benefits during the training period (support system for job seekers) in thereby establishing a trampoline-type society and thus sustaining growth

Reinforcement of functions of employment insurance system

• Enhancement of basic allowance and strengthening of early employment incentives

Support projects for small- and medium-sized enterprises in thereby raising the minimum wage

• Establishment of one-stop consultation desks and creation of subsidy system in thereby realizing a minimum hourly wage of ¥800

Employment promotion and vocational independence support for young people

• Employment support for new graduates and non-new graduates

Reinforcement of employment safety net functions, enhancement/improvement of vocational training for developing human resources that can be of support in growth areas

• Promotion of vocational training for growth areas and thus taking into consideration human resource needs

• Promotion of vocational training for growth areas and thus taking into consideration human resource needs

### 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 job creation in priority areas and immediate employment creation projects (inclusion of “reconstruction areas”, abolishment of one year limitation on employment period)

• Prioritization of local employment

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

• Creation of “Japan as One” Work Council

• Expansion of “Japan as One” Hello Work functions

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 ¥1,113 billion)

Steady employment creation through reconstruction projects, etc.

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

Support for new employment for the disaster victims

• Creation of disaster victim employment development subsidy for subsidizing enterprises that employ 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 ¥392.5 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)

• Enhancement of reconstruction projects through increased funding for the job creation in priority area project, and extension of the period of the enhanced project until the end of FY2013 (¥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

• 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.

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