Leave support money, application to non-regular employment of large companies from January

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare officially announced on the 5th that it will extend the scope of leave support funds, which had been limited to workers of small and medium-sized enterprises, to non-regular employees of large enterprises . Applications will be accepted from the latter half of February for the holidays after January 8, this year , when the second state of emergency was declared in response to the new coronavirus .

　The leave support fund is a system in which workers who are not paid a leave allowance from the company side even though they have been taken a rest or reduced work shifts due to the corona disaster can apply directly to the country and receive the money. It is said that large companies are targeted at non-regular employees such as shift-based part-time workers and day laborers, not regular employees .

　As business hours are shortened and business holidays continue at restaurants, there are a number of voices saying that the decrease in income cannot be compensated just because the workplace is a major restaurant chain, and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga also became a worker of a large company on the 4th. He announced a policy to expand the scope.

Source: https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASP253H4GP25ULFA004.html