Employment and Workstyle Reform

Support for the active participation of women and the participation of men in childcare

We are enhancing our maternity leave, childcare leave, and nursing care leave programs to permit all employees to utilize these programs proactively.

Female employees pre- and post-natal
leave, childcare leave acquistion rate
(FY2021)

All employees taking leave have returned to work.

Male employee childcare leave
acquisition rate
(FY2021)

We will continue to encourage male employees to take active childcare leave.

In addition to the above, we take the following initiatives to enable the active participation of women as well as the participation of men in childcare.

• Introduction of shorter working hours
• Introduction of subsidies for those who use babysitting services
• Effective use of remote work
• Considerations related to the projects our consultants are in charge of, including considerations of their places of work

Employment of people with disabilities

We are proactive in employing people with disabilities. We employ 76 such people with a rate of 2.9% (FY2021), which exceeds the statutory rate (2.3%).

In addition, reflecting our desire that all employees should participate actively by demonstrating their individual capabilities, we have built an environment that enables people with physical, intellectual, or mental disabilities to work successfully in their respective workplaces, as described below.

We have established a work-from-home system, under which employees with physical disabilities are actively involved in jobs such as data processing, organizing, and translation.

We employ people with intellectual or mental disabilities at multiple farms that we own. We donate the vegetables harvested there to local orphanages and food banks.

We support sports for the disabled. We provide athletes of blind judo and boccia with financial support for activities including road trips.

Reemployment

We have introduced a re-employment system for those who have continued to work for the company as regular employees until they reach the mandatory retirement age of 60. This system permits employees who meet certain criteria to remain employed as non-regular employees until they reach the age of 65 at maximum.

Promotion of non-regular employees to regular employees

Every year, we promote many dispatched employees and part-time employees to regular employees.