We are striving to create a work environment enabling our employees to strike a good balance between their work and private life.
Responding to changes in Japanese society affecting families and communities, such as a declining birthrate, aging, and decreasing population, we have introduced various systems to the Head Office, including family-friendly measures and a reemployment system after retirement.

Family-friendly Measures

1. To support employees who need to balance their work and childcare, programs related to parental leave are set in place such as parental leave until their children become three years old, partial payment of salary, and support for self-improvement during parental leave.
2. As the support for childcare, the following programs are introduced: Low-interest loans for fertility treatment, leave for childbirth by spouse (paid leave of five days), and discount coupons for babysitting services.
3. To help employees who do nursing care while working, several programs are introduced: Allowing nursing leave two times for one care-requiring condition, up to 365 days as a combined maximum, support for self-improvement during nursing leave, cutting of working hours and being exempt from overtime work, and discount coupons for nursing care services.

Reemployment System after Retirement

Based on the reemployment system after retirement, which was introduced in 2001, most retired employees who so hoped were reemployed beginning in fiscal 2005, helping to create work environment in which employees of several generations can work together briskly while passing on accumulated know-how and skills.