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

So-called the employers in Paragraph 4 of Article 12 in the Act refer to business units, organizations or private schools.
So-called the national unemployed workers in Paragraph 4 of Article 12 in the Act refer to those possess the nationality of the Republic of China and whose unemployment period has continued for more than six months. But individuals who match the specification in Paragraph 1 of Article 24 in the Service Employment Act shall be continuously unemployed for more than three months. If the unemployed workers in the previous Paragraph had never been employed before, their unemployment period shall be calculated from the date they go to the Public Employment Service Center for placing job registration.

The Competent Authority of the Central Government may delegate employment promotion related agencies (institutions) or organizations to manage job placement of unemployed workers.
So-called the groups in Paragraph 1 of Article 2 and the previous Paragraph refer to those obtained establishment permission according to the Civilian Organization Act or other laws and regulations. Yet political organizations are excluded.

Employers who hire unemployed workers of Paragraph 2 in Article 2 match every Subparagraph of the following specifications may apply for the Subsidy from the Public Employment Service Agency:
(1) After placing Hiring Registration to the Public Employment Service Agency, employers hire unemployed workers who are referral individuals and obtain Referral Card of Hiring Subsidy from either the Public Employment Service Agency or delegated units within two months.
(2) Before applying for the Subsidy, employers 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 per week and whose 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 to join the Employment Insurance, and perform as their insured unit.
The employment period referred to in Subparagraph (3) of the previous Paragraph is calculated by actual employment time, in which thirty days is counted as one month, whose employment time in the end month that is more than twenty days yet less than thirty days would be counted as one month.

Employers' Hiring Subsidy and Award is provided according to the number of employed workers for NT$5,000 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.

After employers have been continuously hiring the same worker for at least six month, employers who intend to receive the Hiring Subsidy and Award shall prepare the following documents within ninety days, apply to the Public Employment Service Agency located in the area that originally provided referral individuals:
(1) Employment Promotion Allowance Application Form.
(2) Name list of the employed, payroll with the workers' signature/seals stating work hours of the employed.
(3) Copy of the employees' Identification Card.
(4) Insured's Insurance Data Form of Labor Insurance.
(5) Other required documents specified by the Competent Authority of the Central Government.
Employers who have provided employment period continuously for more than six months may apply to the Public Employment Service Agency located in the area that originally provided referral individuals for the Subsidy within ninety days after every three more months of employment period.
The amount of the Subsidy specified in the previous Paragraph received by employers is limited to thirty persons per fiscal year per the same area of the Public Employment Service Agency.

Employers have any of the following circumstances will void the legitimacy of receiving the Hiring Subsidy and Award:
(1) Hire those workers who had received the Old-Age Benefit of the Public Official and Teachers Insurance or the Old-Age Benefit of the Labor Insurance.
(2) Hire those workers who had received the Retirement Pension of Military Personnel, the Retirement Payment of Public Enterprises or the Retirement Payment according to the specification of the Labor Standards Act.
(3) Hire the spouse, lineal relation or relatives within second degree of kinship of collateral relation of the employer who bear the responsibility.
(4) The same employer rehires the workers who were separated from their jobs within one year.
(5) Employers have circumstances of discharging workers illegally within two years tracing back from the date of application.
(6) Employers hire the same worker and have received other employment promotion related subsidies or allowances of the same feature from governmental agencies in the same period.
(7) Other employers of the same worker have received other employment promotion related subsidies or allowances of the same feature from governmental agencies in the same period.
(8) Violate Article 7 of the Act and specifications of this Regulations (due to the title is a plural term).
(9) Employers have been applied or received (the Subsidy) with dishonest information, which have been verified
(10) Employers who try to evade, obstruct or reject check and examination conducted by the Competent Authority or the Public Employment Service Agencies.
(11) Delegated units hire workers of self-referral.
(12) Sheltered Workshops hire disabled of sheltered employment.

Employers who have received the Subsidy with dishonest information or have been revoked or rescinded the legitimacy of receiving the Subsidy shall return the subsidies they have received.
For circumstances of the previous Paragraph, after a written notification to return the subsidies by a due date has been issued by the Competent Authority of the Central Government or the Public Employment Service Agency, if employers still do not return the subsidies overdue, then the cases will be transferred to compulsory execution 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 shall be financed from the appropriation amount made by Paragraph 3 of Article 12 in the Act.
Providing or stopping of the Subsidy specified in this Regulations may be adjusted according to the budget amount of the Competent Authority of the Central Government and the adjustment shall be announced in public.

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 the date of announcement.