COVID-19 Related Information

Legal issues regarding employment and rent relevant to COVID-19 pandemic

The following list is links to answers about legal issues regarding employment and rent arising from the request for suspension of businesses under the declaration of a state of emergency for the Novel coronavirus outbreak.

Issues of Employment

1. May an employer dismiss its employees, because it ran into financial difficulty by drop in sales due to its suspension of business requested by a prefectural governor?

2. Does an employer need to pay salary to its employees whom the employer let stand by at homes due to its suspension of business requested by a prefectural governor?

3. Does an employer need to pay leave allowances to its employees whom the employer let stand by at homes due to its suspension of business obliged by closure of the building where the office or the store is located?

4. Does an employer need to pay salary to its employee who is hospitalized or requested to stay at home by infection of COVID-19 and becomes unable to come to work?

Issues of Rent

1. Can a business operator request a lessor of a building to decrease the rent for a room in a building, because it ran into financial difficulty by drop in sales due to its suspension of business requested by a prefectural governor?

2. Will a business operator immediately be required to vacate a room in a building when it failed to pay the rent for the room, because it ran into financial difficulty by drop in sales due to its suspension of business requested by a prefectural governor?

3. Can a business operator request a lessor of a building to decrease the rent for a room in a building due to its suspension of business obliged by closure of the building where the office or the store is located?