(Provisional Translation)
For people facing difficulities with their daily lives and housing after losing their job and for other reasons
Provision of accommodation and financial assistance for unemployment
Provide subsidies to business owners who continue to provide accommodations free of charge to workers whose (fixed-term) contracts were not renewed and those who were laid off
Provision of housing and daily lives support loans
Provision of loans to meet initial costs to enter new housing
Maximum utilization of employment-promotion housing facilities
Expansion of the coverage of employment insurance benefits to non-regular workers
Strengthening of support to those facing difficulties in finding job
Support employment in small and medium-sized enterprises
Reduction of output rates required to receive subsidies for employment adjustments
Easing of eligibility for subsidies for employment adjustments; expansion of workers eligible for the subsidies
Establishment of incentives for business owners who renew contracts with temporary agency workers
Support efforts to actively employ older "freeters" (irregular and part-time or casual employees) aged 25 to 39
Establishment of incentives for business owners who employ, as regular employees, those whose tentative employment offers have been cancelled
Promotion of efforts by small and medium-sized enterprises for human resource development, and of activities by one-stop job placement service centers (the so-called job cafe)