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This Regulations is specified according to Paragraph 4 in Article 12 of the Employment Insurance Act (abbreviated as the Act in the following).

So-called the national unemployed workers in Article 12 of the Act refer to those possess the nationality of the Republic of China and match every Subparagraph of the following specifications:
(1) Involuntarily unemployment workers had accumulated at least one year of insurance tenure within the previous three years tracing back from the date of withdrawal from the insurance.
(2) Unemployment period has been continuously for at least one year.
Female household bread-earners, middle and old aged, the disabled, aboriginal and individuals with employability in the Family under Living Allowances are not constrained by Subparagraph (2) in the previous Paragraph.

Employers who hire workers of the previous Article match every Subparagraph of the following specifications may apply for the Subsidy from the Public Employment Service Agency:
(1) Place Hiring Registration to the Public Employment Service Agency, and hire referral individuals within two months from either the Public Employment Service Agency that originally accepts the Hiring Registration or the specifications of paragraph 2, in Article 12 of the Act.
(2) Before applying the Subsidy, they have hired sufficient number of specific workers or paid fully differential subsidy or equivalent money according to the Protection Act for the Disabled and the Protection for Aboriginal Work Right Act.
(3) Employed workers work more than thirty-two hours per week, while the disabled work more than twenty hours, and employment period has continued for more than six months.
(4) Offering wages according to the specification of the Labor Standards Act or the Protection Act for the Disabled.
(5) Apply for those hired workers according to this Regulation to join the Employment Insurance, and perform as their insured unit.
The employment period of Subparagraph (3) in the previous Paragraph is calculated by actual employment time, in which thirty days is counted as one month, whose employment time that is more than twenty days yet less than thirty days would be counted as one month.

Employers' Hiring Subsidy is provided according to the number of employed workers for NT$ five thousand dollars per month per person, up to twelve months. But the same employer hiring the same worker can receive, combining with the Subsidy and other subsidies or allowances of the same feature provided by governmental institutions, up to twelve months.

Employers who intend to receive the Hiring Subsidy should prepare the following documents, apply to the Public Employment Service Agency that originally accepts the Hiring Registration, after they have been continuously hiring the same worker for at least six month:
(1) Employment Promotion Allowance Application Form.
(2) Name list of the employed, payroll with workers' signatures/seals stating work hours of the employed.
(3) Other documents specified by the Competent Authority of the Central Government.
Applications of the previous Paragraph once being examined for accuracy, the Hiring Subsidy would be provided by season.

Any of the following circumstances will void the legitimacy of receiving the Hiring Subsidy:
(1) Workers were separated from their jobs within one year, but are rehired by the same employer.
(2) Employers have circumstances of discharging workers illegally within two years tracing back from the date of application.
(3) Employers hire the same worker and have received other employment promotion related subsidies or allowances of the same feature from governmental institutions within the same period.
(4) Other employers of the same worker have received other employment promotion related subsidies or allowances of the same feature from governmental institutions within the same period.
(5) The same worker have been utilized by other employers to apply for the last sequence time for this Subsidy or other employment promotion related subsidies or allowances of the same feature from governmental institutions, while the time has lapsed for less than one year.
(6) Violate Article 7 of the Act and specifications of this Regulations.
(7) Employers have been applied or received with dishonest information, which have been verified

Employers who have one of the circumstances specified in the previous Article and have been revoked or rescinded the legitimacy of receiving the Subsidy, should return the subsidies they have received by notified due date. If they did not return overdue, they would be transferred to enforced compulsorily according to law.

Employers have the circumstances of being revoked or rescinded the legitimacy of receiving the Subsidy as specified in the previous Article, shall not apply for and receive this Subsidy within two years.

Expenses needed by this Regulations should be financed from the appropriation amount made by Paragraph 3 in Article 12 of the Act.

Related written forms that are relevant to the application of the Hiring Subsidy and Award will be designed elsewhere by the Competent Authority of the Central Government.

This Regulations will be implemented from January 1, 2003.