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Employee Health and Safety

In order to improve the rate of employees receiving regular physical examinations, Tokyo Century continuously conducts such initiatives as having superiors notify subordinates who have not yet received an exam and reporting the state of examination rates at officer meetings. As a result of these efforts, the rate for regular physical exams for employees, which was 90% in FY 2013, reached 100% in FY2014 and has since been maintained (excluding employees on childcare leave). In addition, Tokyo Century provides required immunizations for overseas employees and their families in the countries where they reside as well as physical examinations once or twice per year in their country of residence or Japan depending on sanitary conditions and medical care levels in their country of residence.

Reduction of Long Working Hours and Work-Life Balance

Tokyo Century promotes work streamlining and strives to improve work-life balance through such means as ensuring sufficient time for self-development, family, and friends by reducing overtime hours. Particularly during summer (July – August), a time when the government urges electricity conservation, Tokyo Century promotes leaving the office on time, as well as following Cool Biz protocols. In addition, based on the Labour Standards Act, Tokyo Century has concluded an Agreement on Overtime Work and Working on Holidays (so called “36 Agreement”) with the labour union. In relation to other working conditions and others,Tokyo Century complies with the Labour Standards Act. For fiscal 2020, Tokyo Century fully complied with the Act and no penalty was imposed.
Tokyo Century Group pays living wage which exceeds the legal minimum wage complying with the law in each country and does not practice unreasonable wage reduction.

Employment of Disabled Persons

Tokyo Century seeks talented individuals from an extensive array of backgrounds and actively employs disabled persons in order to provide a space where highly motivated people can flourish. Tokyo Century also meets the standards for number of disabled people employed as established in the Act on the Promotion of Employment for Disabled Persons (disabled person employment rate as of June 1, 2020: 2.61%［Non-consolidated］).

In addition, Tokyo Century engages in farming, “TC Work Happiness Farm”, opened in April 2019, for the purpose of promoting more employment for disabled persons, hiring eight staff members (persons with intellectual/mental disabilities) including farm directors (elderly).

Located in Funabashi-city in Chiba, TC Work Happiness Farm provides a secure and fulfilling working environment for disabled persons in a long term basis. We grow vegetables in a farm house designed with the motto of safety and cleanliness, and donate the harvested vegetables to the Second Harvest Japan, as part of the company’s CSR activities.

Second Harvest Japan (2HJ) was established in March 2002 as Japan’s first food bank. Food bank is charitable organization that distributes food to those who are in need to avoid hunger. 2HJ redistributes a variety of food donated from food manufacturers, retailers, farmers and individuals that are unexpired and safe for consumption before disposing, to welfare agencies, orphanages, women shelters, people without homes, and others in need. Furthermore, 2HJ performs various relief activities to respond to the needs in the region hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake, the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake, and others.

Employee Data

		FY2016	FY2017	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020
Number of employees	Total	1,032	1,016	989	927	917
	Men	743	722	695	641	634
	Women	289	294	294	286	283
New hires	Total	64	64	51	44	33
	Men	51	43	33	33	29
	Women	13	21	18	11	4
(new graduates)	Total	36	37	24	16	13
	Men	26	25	13	8	9
	Women	10	12	11	8	4
(mid-carrier recruits)	Total	28	27	27	28	20
	Men	25	18	20	25	20
	Women	3	9	7	3	0
Average age of employees	Total	42.5	42.3	42.6	43.0	43.3
	Men	43.9	43.6	43.9	44.2	44.4
	Women	39.0	39.2	39.6	40.2	40.8
Average years of service	Total	16.8	16.6	16.8	16.9	17.1
	Men	17.5	17.3	17.4	17.3	17.3
	Women	15.1	15.0	15.3	15.9	16.6
Turnover ratio	Total	3.5%	5.4%	5.4%	6.1%	4.4%
	Voluntary (Personal reason)	1.7%	4.4%	3.7%	4.2%	2.3%
Ratio of mid-career recruits*1	Total	35.7%	40.3%	50.0%	56.8%	55.2%

Note: As of March 31 of each fiscal year
Contractors and temporary staff are not included

*1 Figures disclosed in accordance with the amendment to the Act on Comprehensive Promotion of Labor Measures

Tokyo Century Family Day

At Tokyo Century, we hold the “Family Day” to invite employees’ children to their parents’ workplace during their school summer holidays, as part of our initiatives to promote diversity. The purpose of the day is to further motivate the employees of the Tokyo Century Group to work, and to promote CSR and work-life balance. After a short briefing on the company, the children cultivated their understanding of the company through activities including interacting with their parents’ superiors and colleagues by exchanging business cards(*) specially made for the day. Also, the employees went back home earlier with their children on the day, in order to cultivate their awareness of work-life balance. Tokyo Century has been taking an initiative to develop employees’ working motivations by tightening their family ties through the Family Day event.
A total of 35 children from 27 families participated in the family day event on August 2019.

(*) The children’s business cards were made from recycled paper using the SEIKO Epson PaperLab, an office papermaking system.