休業支援金、昨秋への遡及検討　大企業非正規―田村厚労相・新型コロナ

　田村憲久厚生労働相は７日のフジテレビ番組で、新型コロナウイルスの影響で休んだのに休業手当を受け取れない労働者向けの「休業支援金」の支給対象拡大をめぐり、新たに大企業の非正規雇用については昨年秋にさかのぼって適用する可能性を示した。厚労省は当初、緊急事態宣言発令を受けた１月８日以降と発表したが、各自治体が独自に飲食店などに営業時間短縮を要請し始めた時期に配慮するとみられる。
　田村氏は番組で「今回の緊急事態宣言に至るまでの一連のお願いに対応して考える」と述べ、東京都や大阪府などによる時短要請時期に沿って、遡及（そきゅう）適用を検討する意向を示した。（2021/02/07-21:02）

Japanese labor minister Norihisa Tamura suggested Sunday that the government may make retroactive benefit payment to nonregular workers at large companies newly covered by a coronavirus relief program for temporary leave taken in autumn last year or later.
   When the labor ministry announced on Friday the expansion of the scope of the temporary leave-related benefit program to cover such workers, it said the aid money will be paid for leave taken because of the epidemic on and after Jan. 8, when the ongoing state of emergency over the virus came into effect.
   "We'll take into consideration a series of requests that were made in the run-up to the emergency declaration," Tamura said in a television program aired by Fuji Television Network Inc., indicating a plan to consider the benefit program's retroactive application in view of hour-shortening and other requests Tokyo and other local governments made to businesses, including eateries, under their own initiatives. He said the city of Sapporo in Hokkaido, northernmost Japan, started making such requests as early as November last year.
   With the program's expansion, shift workers, contract workers and day laborers at large companies are set to be eligible to receive 80 pct of the wages they earned before taking leave, capped at 11,000 yen per day.
   Tamura offered a view that the hour-shortening requests forced many nonregular workers to take leave or work shorter hours.