Aspiring to be an enterprise where diverse and unique personnel can exhibit their strengths, the Onward Group welcomes diversity and supports employees' efforts to achieve a good balance between work and childcare. As a result, many female employees take childcare leave. Among eligible female employees, the proportion taking childcare leave averaged 99.0% over the last three years. Going forward, we aim to increase this proportion to 100% while also achieving 100% for eligible male employees.
FY2019 |
FY2020 |
FY2021 |
FY2022 |
FY2023 |
|
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Male |
10.5% |
20.0% |
27.3% |
60.0% |
66.7% |
Female |
100.0% |
97.0% |
100.0% |
100.0% |
100.0% |
Total |
65.3% |
79.1% |
75.0% |
86.2% |
88.9% |
* Calculated based on the personnel within the scope of Work Style Design (office workers of Onward Kashiyama Co., Ltd.)
Employees who are living with and raising a child under one year of age (including a child in an employee's custody with a view to special adoption, a child entrusted to an employee who is the child's adoptive foster parent, etc.) are eligible for this system. Among such employees, those who apply for childcare leave and who intend to return to work and to continue working at the Company can take childcare leave.
If an employee wishes to enroll his or her child in a licensed nursery but is unable to do so, the leave may be extended up to the end of April after the child reaches the age of three.
Onward Kashiyama Co., Ltd. was certified under the Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children as a company that provides superior childcare support. This certification attests to the achievement of the Company's initiatives based on its general business operator action plan for the period from 2010 to 2014. Based on the newly formulated action plan, we will continue our efforts to create an environment where employees can fully demonstrate their abilities while achieving a good balance between work and childcare.
We will cultivate an environment in which male employees can take childcare leave in the same way as female employees.