Material CSR Issue
Human resources diversity
Why is it important?
Three key phrases represent the current status of the business environment in Japan, i.e. globalization, declining working-age population, and diversifying personal values.
In working against this backdrop, we are forging a work environment that puts a premium on job satisfaction, personal growth, and support for various work styles that will contribute to sustainable business practices and a sustainable society.
Our Approach
We are a company that values people, and that’s why we value employee diversity as well as individual personalities and characters, and aim to foster human resources diversity. As our operations quickly expand across the globe, we are actively hiring workers from overseas, including foreign nationals, and equipping employees with skills needed to work in the global arena through various training programs, including long-term and short-term programs for studying abroad. We have built a work environment where all employees can reach their full potential regardless of gender or disabilities by enhancing the child-care leave program and shortened work hour program for employees with child care responsibilities, promoting barrierfree work environments, and implementing other measures to address Japan’s declining working-age population due to the falling birth rate and the graying of society. We also provide female employees with career support by assigning them to career-track positions. We are also focusing on reducing total working hours per year by reducing meetings, making them more efficient, and boosting communication through the use of a new IT system as part of our work reform initiatives, which also include introduction of the flextime system. We continue to create an engaging environment where people from diverse backgrounds can fulfill their potential while ensuring that all employees maintain a healthy work-life balance.
[Message from the Responsible Person]
OUR PERFORMANCE
Promoting uses of the child care leave program - the first male employee who took child-care leave in the Toyal Group -
The entire company is fully supportive of employees raising children, and creates the work environment where they can sustain a good balance between work and childraising.
The usage ratio of child-care leave by female workers in the Company has nearly 100%; but the leave has never been taken by male workers. While male participation in child-raising has been in one of the current trends, in fiscal 2018, the child-care leave was taken by a male worker for the first time. We are dedicated to maintaining the work environment where employees, regardless of their sexes, can easily take child-care leave, work comfortably, and have meaningful and rewarding work experiences.
Building work teams and starting to build the work environment where we can work with disabled people (Yao Works)
At the Yao Works, based on the recognition that making the best use of diverse values would contribute to improving business performances, a certain Work Team activities have been introduced by departmental representatives to “create a workplace where disabled people can work comfortably and safely by 2021” since July 2018.
The Work Team has discussed how to realize barrier-free plants where various physically handicapped employees can comfortably work, despite the different types of disabilities, and is now taking systematic 3-to-5-year actions for coping with both tangible (elimination of steps and introduction of automatic doors, etc.) and intangible (flexible work hours and raising managers’ awareness, etc.) issues. In fiscal 2019, a work environment improvement initiative will be put into action, as the first step, to enable wheel-chaired visitors to enjoy plant tours comfortably.
Furthermore, based on the activities at the Yao Works, the Toyal Group will roll out the idea, so that diverse human resources can contribute to creating active work environments.
Toward reforming work-styles - introduction of the flextime system -
In July 2018, Toyo Aluminium K.K. introduced the flextime system in which each employee can choose the starting time for a workday. The system allows each employee to shift the work hours forward or backward by one or two hours without changing the day’s entire work hours. Each worker can choose the starting time suitable for his or her needs not only for childrearing or nursing care, but also for avoiding congested traffic in the morning, self-development needs, or participating community activities, etc. Because the procedures have been simplified, the use ratio* from the introduction of the system has reached as high as 37.8% in total, realizing more flexible work-styles for many workers.
* The use ratio: Based on the result of questionnaires conducted by a union of Toyo Aluminium K.K.
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