Implementing action plans under the Next Generation Nurturing Support Measures Promotion Law
At KUBOTA, we are endeavoring to enhance our work environment and conditions to help employees with children maintain a balance between their job responsibilities and their children/private lives, and enjoy being at work, as part of our effort to achieve the goals of the Next Generation Nurturing Support Measures Promotion Law to create a social environment conducive to giving birth to and bringing up children, the leaders of the next generation.
We will continue our efforts into FY 2009 by implementing a new action plan formulated under the Law.
Our 2007-2010 action plans were awarded the Kurumin Mark, a certificate granted in recognition of corporate efforts to support employees with children.
[The general business owner action plan for next-generation nurturing support starting FY 2010 (outline)]
| Planned Period | From April 1, 2009 to March 31, 2011 (two years) |
| Measures Taken | ① The period for childcare leave is set longer than legally required ② The period with shorter working hours for childcare is set longer than legally required ③ Measures to encourage employees to take more annual paid holidays are implemented |
[Support for employees with children]
| Paternity leave | Three (3) continuous or individual days within one month after giving birth, including the day of giving birth |
| Childcare leave | In principle, up to the day immediately preceding the day when the child becomes two years old |
| Shorter working hours for childcare | Working hours can be shortened in 30-minute increments to a maximum of two hours, by either starting work later or ending work earlier or both, until March 31 of the year when the child completes the third grade of elementary school. This program can be used as many times as necessary. |
| Accrued annual paid leave system for childcare | Employees raising a child in the third grade of elementary school or younger may take up to six days of advanced accrued paid leave per year for the purpose of nursing the child, until March 31 of the year when the child completes the third grade. Employees raising two or more such children may take up to 12 days of advanced accrued paid leave per year. |
| Half-day paid leave | Employees are entitled to take half-day paid leave up to 12 times per year. |
