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雇用保険

Employment Insurance

労働者の生活と雇用の安定を目的とした保険。労働者が失業(仕事を失うこと)したときや雇用の継続が難しくなったときに現金給付を行う失業等給付と二事業(雇用安定事業、能力開発事業)とで構成されている。

This is insurance aimed at stabilizing workers’ lives and employment. It consists of unemployment benefits, which provide cash benefits when a worker loses his or her job, or when it becomes difficult for him or her to continue employment, and two businesses (employment stabilization business and human resources development business).