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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.
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, 2019: 3.01%［Non-consolidated］).

In addition, Tokyo Century engages in farming, “TC Work Happiness Farm”, for the purpose of promoting more employment for disabled persons, hiring eight staff members (persons with intellectual/mental disabilities) including a farm director (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, distribute the harvested vegetables to the employees, and bring it to the link between the employees and the farm director and staff members. We also have some plans for the activities of social contribution such as donating the harvested vegetables to “Children’s Cafeteria(*)” when ready to supply vegetables stably.

Tokyo Century continues to develop working environment that diversified employees can flourish, together with the promotion of maintenance and enhancement of the employment system for disabled persons.

(*) The regional community welfare service for children mainly conducted by local governments and residents to provide meal for free or at a low-price

Employee Data

		FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017	FY2018
Number of employees	Total	1,000	1,021	1,032	1,016	989
	Men	723	739	743	722	695
	Women	277	282	289	294	294
Newly hired	Total	36	35	56	62	51
	Men	27	28	43	41	33
	Women	9	7	13	21	18
(new graduates)	Total	17	24	36	37	24
	Men	14	18	26	25	13
	Women	3	6	10	12	11
(mid-carriers)	Total	19	11	20	25	27
	Men	13	10	17	16	20
	Women	6	1	3	9	7
Average age of employees	Total	42.0	42.6	42.5	42.3	42.6
	Men	43.4	44.1	43.9	43.6	43.9
	Women	38.1	38.7	39.0	39.2	39.6
Average years of service	Total	16.4 years	17.0 years	16.8 years	16.6 years	16.8 years
	Men	17.3 years	17.8 years	17.5 years	17.3 years	17.4 years
	Women	14.1 years	14.9 years	15.1 years	15.0 years	15.3 years
Turnover ratio	Total	2.2%	3.3%	3.5%	5.4%	5.4%
	Personal reason	1.5%	1.8%	1.7%	4.4%	3.7%

Note: As of March 31 of each fiscal year

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.