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Documents sent by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Welfare when a worker of a large company requests a leave of absence support.Using the employment adjustment allowance, we are requesting shift workers to give a leave allowance = in Chiyoda- ku, Tokyo
Due to the spread of the new coronavirus, there are at least 25 large companies that have been requested by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Welfare to pay part-time workers and part-time workers who have shortened or rested their working hours without paying the license allowance. It turned out that he did not respond. The situation in which part-time workers of the main food and beverage chains, who were forced to take a leave of absence due to the reissue of the state of emergency, cannot receive compensation, is aggravated and there is an urgent need to develop a safety net. (Takuya Kishimoto)
Last summer, the government created a “leave subsidy / benefit” that provides direct government benefits to workers in small and medium-sized businesses who do not receive a leave subsidy. Union leaders insisted that large companies be included, but the government excluded large companies as “capable of paying benefits.”
Leave aid / benefits A system in which the government directly provides 80% of pre-leave wages to small and medium-sized business workers who are forced to take leave due to the influence of the novel coronavirus but do not receive the license allowance. It’s been open for holidays since April last year, and part-time shift workers can use it too. The deadline for April-September of last year is approaching the 31st of this month.
However, due to crown disease, there are many unpaid assignments for part-time workers, such as the major food and beverage chains. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Welfare has requested payment in writing from 25 large companies that were found to be unpaid in November last year. He also explained that the subsidy would be covered by a national employment adjustment subsidy.
◆ Company name and industry are not disclosed
However, when examining the situation of each company after the re-issuance of the state of emergency in mid-January, no company paid the vacation allowance. It was clear that the request of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Welfare was ineffective. Although the company name and industry are not disclosed, it appears that there are many union-related food and beverage inquiries that have not been paid. When it comes to eating and drinking, if there are more than 50 employees, it’s a great company.
“I’m not convinced that regular employees are given vacation leave and not part-time jobs.” A 29-year-old part-time worker who works in a major ramen chain in Yokohama complains. For men, a shift system in which working days are decided every half month. With the state of emergency this month, the store closed two hours ahead of schedule, significantly reducing the men’s working hours. Income is likely to be less than a third.
The man collectively negotiated with the company a subsidy for reduced work, but the company said: “We will give the subsidy in the first half of the month when the working day is set, but we are obliged to pay in the second half of the month in which there are no working hours. There is no such thing, “he continues to refuse.
◆ Shift workers are eligible for leave subsidy
Most inquiries of the same type that the “Restaurant Union” receives are from non-regular workers who work a shift system, which is announced at the beginning of the month, because the work dates are not fixed. The vacation allowance is obliged to pay when the employee takes a break at the time when he should be working, but in the case of the shift system, companies often refuse to say: “The working days are not fixed” .
The union’s Mr. Tetsuya Obayashi said: “Adding shift workers from large companies to the goal of supporting leave and having companies pay vacation leave for shift workers as a condition of the adjustment allowance employment. Immediate improvement is needed. ”
