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Retainment and Utilization of Human Capital

Promotion of Flexible Work Styles

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Support for Diverse Working Styles

We promote creating working environments that enable our employees to strike a balance between their work and their home life. We strive to develop and expand a variety of support systems in order to create an environment where every employee can take on the challenge of career advancement while realizing a work style that suits the events in their lives.
In fiscal 2023, we introduced a Work-from-home System for the entire Company, including plants, to help employees work with more flexibility while improving productivity, as well as a Remote Work System for managers. We also abolished the core times from the flextime systems in place at our Head Office locations and some of our other business sites, supporting employees in adopting a more flexible way of working.

Systems Supporting Flexible Workstyles

System Outline
All employees Work-from-home system A system that allows employees to work from home who are in charge of work that can be handled at home.
Remote work system A system that allows managers to work without restrictions on location (Japan only)
Half-day paid leave system A system under which paid leave may be taken in half-day units
By-the-hour paid leave system A system under which paid leave may be taken in hour units
Wellness leave We allow employees to carry over up to 5 days per year of their expiring annual paid leaves, with an upper limit of 60 days. These paid leaves may be used when an employee or their family is receiving in-patient or home treatment for a non-work-related illness or injury, when an employee undergoes a complete medical checkup/gynecological examination or has in- and out-patient fertility treatment, and when an employee takes part in volunteer activities or other activities.
Flextime system A system which permits employees to determine their start and finish times (without core time requirements at some business sites)

Childcare support
Maternity nursing leave (for male employees) When the wife of an employee has given birth, the employee is entitled to three days of leave within two weeks of the date of birth.
Support interviews for employees returning to work after childcare leave (leave to raise children), etc. For employees taking prenatal and postnatal maternity leave and childcare leave for a total of three months or longer and who wish to have an interview
Lump sum payment for early return to work after childcare leave (leave to raise children), etc. Paid to employees who return to work early after maternity leave, or after one month or more of childcare leave (during the month following the month when they return to the month when the child becomes one year old).
Shortening of prescribed working hours Employees caring for a child up until the sixth grade of elementary school are eligible. The number of prescribed working hours per day may be shortened to a minimum of six hours.
Childcare time A female employee with a child younger than one year old is entitled to take two 30-minute breaks during shortened prescribed working hours.
Staggered work hours and additional break time Female employees who are pregnant or have given birth to a baby may move up or down their start and finish times by up to 60 minutes under certain conditions. They are also permitted to take two breaks for up to 60 minutes in total per day.
Exemption from out-of-hours work Employees caring for a child up until the sixth grade of elementary school are entitled not to work overtime.
Limitations on out-of-hours work Employees caring for a child up until the sixth grade of elementary school are entitled not to work over 24 hours of overtime a month and over 150 hours of overtime a year.
Limitations on late-night work Employees caring for a child up until the sixth grade of elementary school are entitled not to work from 10:00 pm to 5:00 am.
Child nursing care leave Employees caring for a child up until the sixth grade of elementary school are entitled to take this leave on a daily or hourly basis, in principle, separately from annual paid leaves. (For employees with children up to the age of 3, up to 5 days of paid leave will be granted per year.)
・One child: 10 days / year
・two or more children: 15 days / year
Childcare fee subsidy system Paid to employees with children under the age of 3 who attend preschool or a day care facility

Caregiving support
Extended caregiving leave Employees may take up to a maximum of 36 months' leave per person requiring care.
Caregiving leave Employees with family members requiring care may take leave as follows. The leave may be taken on a daily or hourly basis, in principle, separately from annual paid holidays.
- One family member requiring care: 5 days
- Two or more family members requiring care: 10 days
Shortening of prescribed working hours/staggered work hours/flextime Employees with family members requiring care may take leave under one of the following schemes specified by the Company.
- Shortening of prescribed working hours
- Staggered work hours
- Flextime
Exemption from out-of-hours work Employees with family members requiring care are entitled not to work overtime.
Limitations on out-of-hours work Employees with family members requiring care are entitled not to work more than 24 hours of overtime a month and more than 150 hours of overtime a year.
Limitations on late-night work Employees with family members requiring care are entitled not to work from 10:00 pm to 5:00 am.

Systems Related to Diverse Careers and Employment Continuation, etc.

System Outline
Internal job posting system Implemented as a part of promoting autonomous career development
Area limited employment system A system that allows employees with certain circumstances, such as childcare or long-term care, to be exempt from relocation for a certain period of time
Special temporary leave-of-absence systemA system that allows employees who are accompanying a spouse on an overseas assignment or who are studying at their own expense to take leave for a certain period of time
Reemployment system for employees who have once resigned A system that allows employees who have once resigned due to personal family circumstances (marriage, childbirth, long-term care, etc.) to rejoin the Company under certain conditions
Overseas study program A system that dispatches employees desiring to study overseas who have passed an internal selection to graduate schools, etc. in Japan or abroad
Position change A system that employees are allowed to change their positions in specific areas to new positions where they can demonstrate their capabilities from a company-wide perspective.
Side jobs / Side businesses A system allowing employees to engage in non-employment side jobs and side businesses has been introduced with the aim of enabling employees to acquire knowledge, skills, and experience that cannot be obtained within the Group, bringing value to the Group while also further promoting awareness of autonomous career building (implemented on a trial basis from April 2023)
Enhancing Measures to Increase the Percentage of Male Employees Taking Childcare Leave

We aim to further promote Diversity and Inclusion by enabling employees to better balance work and life events such as childcare to create an environment where diverse talents can continue to perform. From fiscal 2023, we set a goal of having 100% of eligible male employees take childcare leave and are actively working to achieve this goal through measures such as continuous awareness building in our training, holding seminars that renew work styles and encouraging the taking of childcare leave by male employees.

Trends in the Numbers, Rates and Days of Childcare Leave Taken by Male Employees

Period Number taking leave Rate taking leave Average days taken
FY2020 27 15.6% 41
FY2021 56 36.6% 32
FY2022 84 61.3% 51
  • A system unique to our company allows a male employee whose spouse gives birth to take 3-day maternity nursing leave (paid) within two weeks of the date of birth.

Status of Utilization of the Systems, etc. (FY2023)

Item Male Female Total
Number of employees taking caregiving leave 2 0 2
Number of employees taking childcare leave 84 19 103
Number of employees taking prenatal and postnatal maternity leave 16 16
Percentage of paid leave taken
(Non-consolidated union member) (January to December 2022)
87.3%
Average overtime hours (Non-consolidated union member) 17.8hours
  • To develop an environment in which it is easy for employees to take paid leave as part of measures to increase the percentage of paid leave taken, we have determined days when employees are strongly recommended to take paid leave and days when employees are encouraged to take paid leave, before or following holidays, etc. Thus, we recommend employees to proactively take paid leave.
  • Regarding employee working hours, we use a dedicated attendance management system in which employees, including managers, input their working hours. Their workplace superiors can use the system to regularly check the attendance status of all team members.

Working Styles for Employees Aged 60 and over

As of April 2021, we have extended the mandatory retirement age from 60 to 65 years old, as a measure to secure stable employment and improve the treatment of senior employees, to enable them to work with peace of mind, and to further increase their motivation. In addition, we are catering to the needs of individual employees by incorporating options such as selective retirement age and re-employment with shorter working hours, taking the state of health and life plans of each employee into account.

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