Spot Worker Utilization Support Subsidy

(1) Overview: This is Fukui Prefecture's Spot Worker Utilization Support Subsidy, an emergency labor-shortage countermeasure that supports businesses using spot-worker labor sourced through digital short-term/single-shift employment matching services (spot-work intermediary operators) at workplaces inside Fukui Prefecture. It is administered under the Fukui Prefecture Subsidy Regulations and the Labor Policy Division's subsidy guidelines. (2) Eligible applicants: Businesses with worksites in Fukui Prefecture that have actually engaged spot workers through licensed spot-work intermediary operators and borne the relevant fees. Applicants must either have not previously used such intermediaries, or have attended (in-person or online) a spot-work seminar hosted or co-sponsored by the Prefecture. Religious/political bodies, organized-crime-related entities, adult-entertainment businesses, firms under procurement suspension, those in civil rehabilitation/corporate reorganization/bankruptcy proceedings, prefectural-tax delinquents, labor-law violators, and parties who have unjustly received public grants in the past three years are excluded. (3) Subsidized expenses: Intermediary placement fees (service usage fees) paid to spot-work matching operators when a placement is completed, or, where the spot worker is a dispatched worker, the dispatch service fee paid to such operators. Wages, transportation, consumption tax/local consumption tax, and bank transfer fees are excluded. (4) Rate, cap, schedule, application pointers: Subsidy rate is 1/3; the cap is JPY 100,000 per business establishment per fiscal year, with a minimum of JPY 10,000 (amounts under JPY 1,000 are rounded down). The eligible period runs from 10 April 2026 (Reiwa 8) through 31 March 2027 (Reiwa 9). Applications (Form 1) are accepted on a first-come basis during the designated window; the final claim (Form 4) must be filed within one month of project completion or by 10 March of the fiscal year, whichever is earlier. A national-tax certificate (issued within the last 2 months) proving no consumption-tax arrears is mandatory.