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This Measure is promulgated according to Item 2 of Article 23 and Item 3 of Article 24 of the Employment Service Act (hereinafter as the Act).

This Measure is applicable to the following subjects:
1. People who involuntarily leave their jobs
2. All those who lost their jobs stated in Paragraph 1 of Article 24 of the Act.
3. The consigned units for the employment of the people stated in Item 1 and Item 2.
Those stated in Item 1 and Item 2 shall possess work ability and willingness to work.
The employers referred to in Item 3 of Paragraph 1 are those private employment service institutions, employment promotion and related institutions (institutes) or groups consigned by the Central Competent Authority.
The groups referred to in the previous Paragraph are those who have establishments approved by the people’s group law or other laws and regulations. But they do not include political groups.

The people referred to in Item 1 and Item 2 of Paragraph 1, Article 2 with the following situations are not applied in This Measure:
1. Those who have received the old age insurance payment from the Civial Servants and Teachers Insurance or the old age payment from the Labor Insurance.
2. Those who have received military retirement pension, retirement payment of the public enterprises, or retirement payment according to the regulations of the Labor Standards Law.

The Central Competent Authority may take account of domestic economic development, residents’unemployment and budget utilization, among other circumstances, to offer the following employment promotion allowances:
1. Employment seeking transportation allowance
2. Temporary job allowance.
3. Living allowance during vocational training.
4. Interest allowance for business creation loan
5. Allowance for employment referral matchmaking.
The allowances mentioned in the previous Paragraph can be paid through consigned or contracted public employment service institutions or vocational training units.
The stoppage of allowances payment referred to in Paragraph 1 shall be publicly announced by the Central Competent Authority.

The persons referred to in Item 1 and Item 2 of Paragraph 1, Article 2, who apply for the payment of the allowances referred to in Item 1 to Item 4 of Article 4, shall present a copy of both sides of the National Identification Card, a form of consigned agreement for the inquiry of the Labor Insurance records, and the following documents:
1. Women who support their families: a copy of the complete household registry; those dependent relatives who are at least fifteen and less than sixty-five years old, shall present a copy of document concerning those dependent relatives’ status of in-school or inability to work.
2. Disabled: copy of the disabled card.
3. Aboriginals: copy of the household registry or the household origin registry with remark stating the identity of aboriginal.
4. Family under living allowances: copy of evidence document stating status of low household income.
5. Persons left their jobs involuntarily: copy of the certificate stating involuntarily loss of job issued by the original insurance office or the competent authorities of special municipality or county (city) governments.
6. Other documents required by the Central Competent Authority.

After the persons referred to in Item 1 and Item 2 of Parageraph 1 of Article 2 have registered employment request personnally to the public employment service institutions, the public employment service institutions have offered employment counseling and issued employment referral card, and one of the following situation exist, then the persons may apply for the employment seeking transportation allowance:
1. The place of the referral job is located farther than thirty kilometers from where the applicant lives.
2.The persons belong to a family under living allowances.

Those who apply for the allowance stated in Article 6, shall present the following documents:
1. The documents stated in Article 5
2. Receipts of the reception of allowance
3. Other documents required by the Central Competent Authority.

Allowance referred to in Article 6 is limited to NT $500 per person per request. For persons in special situations may receive the actual amount of transportation, but never exceeding NT $1,250 per request.
The aforementioned allowance is limited to four times per person per year.

Those who receive the allowances stated in Article 6 shall fill out, within seven days starting from the second day of employemnt referral, their interview results in referral employment reply card and send it back to public employment service institutions. Those who do not do so after the deadline shall receive no allowance for the rest of the same year.

After the public employment service institutions accept the employment request registration from the persons referred to in Item 1 and Item 2 of Paragraph 1 of Article 2, and provide employment counseling and employment referral, when any of the following circumstances arise, the public employment service institutions shall assign the applicant to a recruiting unit for a temporary job and shall pay the temporary job allowance:
1. Those cannot be employed by referral within fourteen days after the filing of the employment seeking registration.
2. Those have legitimate reasons not to accept referral job.
The aforementioned legitimate reasons refer to work compensation does not reach 60% of the original insured salary, or the working place is more than thirty kilometers away from where the applicant regularly lives.
The recruiting units referred to in Paragraph 1 are government institutions (institutes) or legally established and registered non-profit organizations, which provide a temporary work plan and being approved by the public employment service institutions.
The recruiting units shall pay the temporary job allowance, and perform as a taxpayer to deduct the due taxes upon the payment of the allowance.

The recruiting units which apply for the allowance stated in Article 10 shall present the following documents:
1. Work log of the temporary work execution plan and the attendance log of the allowance recipients.
2. List of the reception of the allowance.
3. Temporary work plan execution report.
4. Receipt.
5. Other documents required by the Central Competent Authority.

Allowance payment standards in Article 10 are NT $100 per hour, one hundred and seventy six hours per month at most, and limited to six months.

Recepients of the allowance referred to in Article 10, after public employment service institutitions have provided referral employment, shall fill out, within seven days starting from the second day of employemnt referral, their interview results in referral employment reply card and send it back to public employment service institutions. Those who do so within deadline shall be offered four or eight hours of job-seeking leave with pay on the date of interview.
The job-seeking leave with pay of the previous paragraph is limited to eight hours per week.
Application of absency for persons of Paragraph 1 shall follow the rules of the recruiting units; if the recruiting units do not have rules, the Labor Standards Law and the Workers’Absency Rules shall be followed. The number of absency days and job-seeking leave of Paragraph 1 shall be counted as temporary work period.

Public employment service institutions shall send out staff to do on-site supervision on the execution of the temporary work plan.
Shall one of the following situations arise, the plan shall be terminated:
1. Avoidance, obstruction or refusal of supervision and check-up.
2. Those do not follow the temporary work plan referred to in Paragraph 3 of Article 10 and other relevant regulations in execution, and fail to make corrections by written notification after the deadline.
3. Those violate labor related laws and regulations.
Those whose temporary work plan were terminated, public employment service institutions shall notify the recruiting units to return the allowance amount beyond the termination date within a deadline. Those do not return the allowance amount after the deadline shall be prosecuted forcefully by the law.

Due to the termination of the temporary work plan, the temporary work staff affected by such termination may be assigned to other recruiting units to work on other temporary job assigned by public employment service institutions, and shall receive temporary work allowance.
The period of the job stated in the previous Paragraph shall be counted with the original temporary work period.

Those receive the allowance referred to in Article 10 shall be stopped or not paid the temporary work allowance when one of the following situation arises:
1. Those receive the allowance have started working.
2. Those violate the order and regulations of the recruiting units and have being notified by the recruiting units to public employment service institutions to stop such temporary jobs.
3. After the termination of original temporary job, the persons refuse to accept other temporary jobs assigned by public employment service institutions.
4. Those refuse referral employment provided by public employment service institutions.

Recruiting units shall apply for the Labor Insurance and the National Health Insurance for the persons working in the temporary jobs; for those who cannot join the Labor Insurance regulated by the law, the recruiting units shall provide other life insurance or accident insurance.

The persons referred to in Item 2 of Paragragh 1 of Article 2, after providing employment counseling and training referral by public employment service institutions, or being accepted by vocational training institutions, which may be a governmental agency or a training instutution consigned by the government, and their vocational training is a full day program in all sorts, then they may receiv the living allowance for vocational training.
The so called full day program of vocational training as referred to in the previous Paragraph shall meet the following requirements:
1. Training period is over one month
2. More than four classes every week.
3. More than four hours in each day of classes.
4. The total training hours are over one hundred hours in a month.

Applying for the allowance referred to in Article 19 shall present the following documents, which shall be submitted to the training institutions within fifteen days after the starting of the training.
1. All the documents referred to in article 5.
2. Allowance application form.
3. Other documents required by the Central Competent Authority.

Allowance referred to in Article 18 will be paid by 60% of the basic salary monthly, with a maximum of six months. If the applicant were a disabled, the maximum period is twelve months.
Allowance referred to in Article 18 will calculate 30 days as one month, according to actual training time given to training students, the trainings which are short of thirty days will be processed according to the following rules:
1. The case of over 10 days and 30 training hours will be paid half a month.
2. The case of over 20 days and 60 training hours will be paid one month.

Unemployed persons referred to in Item 2 of Paragraph 1 of Article 24 may apply to financial institutions for business creation loan provided by government if they meet the following requirements and were approved for the loan:.
1. The loan is limited to business creation and the business operation shall not include those situations that may affect the public health and moral, public safety or environmental hygiene.
2. The loan shall not be used in debt paying, re-investment, living expenses or property acquisition. But the equipment required for business creation is not limited.
3. The applicant shall be the person in charge or the main investor of the new business, and has to be actually working in the business.
The financial institutions which make the loan may apply to the Central Competency Authority for the interest allowance for business creation loan.

The interest allowance referred to in Article 21 is limited to the amount of NT $1 million, the borrowers shall pay 3% of annual interest rate, and the maximum period of allowance is seven years.

Shall one of the following situation arise, the interest allowance for the recipient shall be stopped or terminated.
1. Change of business or has another job during the time of reception of the allowance.
2. Who is not actually working in the business created, modifying without permission the operation or applying for more loan, loan transfer to the financial institution.
3. Interruption or termination of the business created.
4. Pay for the loan.
5. Those who have violated any of the regulations referred to all Items of Paragraph 1 of Article 21.
The amount of allowance before the termination of the interest allowance will be calculated proportionally according to the period.
The interest allowance recipients shall report in writing to the financial institution within seven days after the occurrence of any event referred to all Items in Paragraph 1.

Consigned units referred to in Item 3 of Paragraph 1 of Article 2 which meet the following requirements, shall apply to public employment service institutions for the employment referral matchmaking allowance.
1. Those who do not accept allowances related to the government employment promotion budgets, or who accept related allowancse of the employment promotion budget and have already met the execution performance results required by the allowance providers.
2. Referral employment of the persons referred to Item 1 and Item 2 of Paragraph 1 of Article 2 who are referaled by public employment service institutions and do not charge fees.
3. Referraled persons have been employed by the same employer at least three consecutive months, and their work hours have been over thirty two hours per week. But disabled have worked over twenty hours per week.
4. Referraled persons have been hired consecutively for three months by two or more employers, and their accumulated monthly wages are higher than the basic wage.
5. The units do not violate related regulations about wages and work hours of the Labor Standards Law.
The employers referred to in Item 3 and Item 4 of the Previous Paragraph include business units, groups, private schools or individuals.

Those apply for the allowance of Article 24 shall present the following documents:
1. Allowance application form
2. Copy of evidence document of employer’s legal establishment, or copy of both sides of the National Identification Card.
3. Employed Referral’s Payroll List, referral employment document and follow-up counseling records documents, which shall state the employed referral’s name, period of work and work hours.
4. Other documents required by the Central Competent Authority.
If those applications of the previous Paragraph were approved, they shall receive the allowance quarterly.

Applications for the allowance referred to in Article 24 shall be submitted within ninety days starting from the date of meeting requirements of application. For those who cannot submit their applications within specified period due to reasons that cannot be ascribed to applicants, shall apply in written for extention to public employement service institutions. The extention period is thirty days in maximum. And the extension is limited to once per year.

Allowance referred to in Article 24 shall be paid according to the number of referals being employed and the length of employment period, such standards are the following:
1. For those who have worked over three consecutive months but less than six months, the allowance is NT $5,000 per person.
2. For those who have worked over six consecutive months, the allowance will offer extra NT $5,000 per person.
3. If referaled persons were unemployed consecutively at least one year by the reasons referred to Item 1 or Item 2 of Paragraph 1 of Article 2, while they meet the standards of Item 1, then the allowance will offer extra NT $3,000 per person.
If the number of referaled persons who become employed in the previous Paragraph were expected performance under the project subsidized by government employment promotion budget, then the number shall be deducted.

Persons referred to in Item 1 and Item 2 of Paragraph 1 of article 2 receiving both the temporary job allowance and other allowances or subsidies of similar characteristics from government agencies within two years are limited to six months.

Persons referred to in Item 2 of Paragraph 1 of article 2 receiving both the living allowance during vocational training and other allowances or subsidies of similar characteristics from government agencies within two years are limited to six months. If applicants were disabled, the maximum period is one year.

If the same business creation case had been receiving other interest allowances or subsidies for business creation loan of similar characteristics from government agencies, then it shall not receive the interest allowance for business creation loan of This Measure.

Consigned units shall not receive the allowance for employment referral matchmaking if they have one of the following situations:
1. Referaled persons are spouse of or have a lineal relation with the employer of the consigned units.
2. Hire self-referral persons.

Institutions or groups referred to in Item 3 of Paragraph 1 of Article 2, which have received other employment promotion subsidies or allowances of similar characteristics from government agencies, shall not use the same worker at the same time to receive duplicately the employment referral matchmaking allowance.

Those who receive the allowance with false reasons, or whose allowance qualification have been revoked, stopped or terminated by the original allowance paying unit, shall return the allowances they have received, and shall not apply for the allowances stipulated in This Measure within two years.
If the original allowance paying unit has sent out a written notification asking to return the allowance received before a deadline, as referred to in the previous Paragraph, then those have not returned the allowance before the deadline shall be prosecuted by the law accordingly. Those have been prosecuted by the law shall not receive the allowances stipulated in This Measure.

The Central Competent Authority, public employment service institutions or vocational training institutions shall audit and supervise the execution of the employment promotion allowances, when necessary, the related information shall be reviewed, the recipients of the allowances shall not avoid, obstruct or refuse.
Recipients avoid, obstruct or refuse revisions shall return the allowances that have already received, and if the written notification asking to return the allowances before a deadline had been issued, then those have not returned the allowances before the deadline shall be prosecuted by the law accordingly.

Forms and documents regulated in This Measure shall be set up separately by the Central Competent Authority.

The consigned period, qualification and processing procedures of the consigned units referred to in Paragraph 3 of Article 2 will be publicly announced by the Central Competent Authority.

Budget required for This Measure will be appropriated from the Employment Stablization Funds.

This Measure shall take effect on the day of promulgation.