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Human Rights and Labor

We have designated the reason for our company’s existence as “to achieve safety, ANSHIN, and well-being for people around the world.” Since its foundation, our company has specified our philosophy to be “management with respect for humanity” and is based on the concepts of “valuing people,” “nurturing people,” and “bringing out the strengths of people,” with the aim of contributing to the sustainable development of society while maintaining a high awareness of human rights for all people surrounding the IDEC Group.

Human Rights Policy

Decent work

“Decent work” is defined as “rewarding employment (work) which has high consideration for humanity,” and also as “productive work in which the rights of each individual are ensured, sufficient income is generated, and appropriate social protection is provided.”We have implemented various workstyle transformation initiatives, such as increasing work efficiency through DX, building an IT infrastructure that includes telephones, etc., introducing a planned paid holiday program, and encouraging male employees to take childcare leave.
To enable more flexible working styles, we have launched discretionary work and we are currently reassessing flex-time systems, existing work-from-home programs and special leave systems.

Moreover, in FY2023 we established a Decent Work Promotion Subcommittee to strive to create a rewarding workplace environment where employees can work with ANSHIN, in order to increase employee satisfaction and achieve employee well-being. The following objectives have been established and cross-departmental information sharing and company-wide policies are currently being studied.

Through coordination by relevant departments beginning with the Decent Work Promotion Subcommittee, IDEC will work to create a work environment that is rewarding for all employees.

・Optimization of working time management
・Support for balancing career and family
・Achievement of flexible work styles
・Support for empowering women

Systems for Supporting Life and Work Balance


We are expanding the scope of short-time work for childcare and family nursing care. Specifically, we have extended applicability of the childcare short-time work system from "until admission to elementary school" to "elementary school third grade". Also, in anticipation of revision to the law, we have expanded the scope of the family nursing care short-time work system to "three years in total". We also support life and work balance through exempting overtime work, limiting after-hours work and late-night work, and expanding application of the staggered work hours system for childcare to "until graduation from elementary school" and so on. In this way, we are striving to create an environment in which all employees are able to fully exhibit their capabilities.

Also, from the fiscal year ended March 31, 2017, anticipating revision to the law, we made it possible for employees to take half-day holidays for family nursing care and take nursing leave in up to three installments.

We actively promote awareness and encourage employees to utilize such systems by posting them on the intranet and so on. As a result, 100% of female employees returned to work after childcare leave, while 9 male employees have so far made use of childcare leave (as of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022).

Moreover, based on the Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children (Next Generation Act), we have compiled and practice an autonomous action plan, and we acquired next generation support certification (Kurumin Authorization) from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in July 2017. We will continue to strive for measures to support life-work balance from now on.

Action Plan for Promotion of Empowerment of Women and Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation

The following action plan was formulated to promote the creation of a comfortable working environment in which employees can balance work and childcare, and all employees can fully demonstrate their abilities.
*Regarding the Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation, the period and goals for the plan from April 1, 2020 to March 31, 2023 have been changed to the plan under review.

1. Planned period : Three years from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2025

2. Contents

Goals Measures
1 【Goals based on the Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation】
Set the childcare leave acquisition rate at over 90% for both women and men.

From April 2022 : Inform a male employee  whose spouse has given birth and his superior about the childcare leave system.

2 【Goals based on the Act on Promotion of Empowerment of Women】
Expand systems that support flexible working styles.
From April 2022 : Consider introducing a work system that is not restricted by time or place, such as a Discretionary Labor System.

From April 2023 : Start operating a Discretionary Labor System.
3 【Goals based on the Act on Promotion of Empowerment of Women】
Aim for 15 or more female managers.
(Current status : 10 people)
From June 2022 : Plan and implement training programs for all female employees in main career track positions.
*"Female managers" include leader-class employees who are candidates for the next managerial position.


Reduction of Long Working Hours


The IDEC Group is making a company-wide effort to promote Decent Work and prevent excessive work with the aims of realizing 100% use of annual paid leave.

In addition to the conventional "no-overtime work days", we encourage employees to leave work on time through calling on employees to leave early on the P.A. system. As a result, employees are required to compile and execute more efficient work plans, making them more conscious of working hours than before.

We also strive to increase annual paid leave utilization rates with emphasis on encouraging employees to seek mental and physical refreshment based on scheduled utilization of paid leaves. We are striving to create a workplace atmosphere that encourages taking holidays. For example, we give monthly feedback on individual leave utilization with the aim of realizing 80% or higher utilization.

We were also one of the first corporations to introduce the office hours interval system and take other pioneering measures to reduce long working hours.

In this way, we help our employees control their working hours, leave work early when their workloads are light, and shorten working hours so that they can devote more energy to having fuller private lives.

 

Data on Promotion of Decent Work


See the following for data related to promotion of Decent Work (childcare leave, annual paid leave utilization rates, etc.)

 

Realizing a Safe, Healthy and Comfortable Workplace Environment


The IDEC Group considers the safety and health of employees as the most important issue in achieving management with respect for humanity, and aims to be a company that pursues and achieves world-class safety, health and wellbeing.

We emphasize risk assessment, which not only complies with relevant laws and regulations, but also investigates hazards or hazards in the workplace and takes measures to prevent hazards or health problems of employees based on the results.

In "safety," we train a large number of qualified personnel such as “Safety Assessors” * who are "safety specialists," and utilize their knowledge to realize more advanced and safe production sites that take comfort and productivity into consideration.

Regarding “health”, the IDEC Health Care Center makes efforts to enhance employee follow-up on health management and raise health awareness through health seminars and other programs. We also work to achieve "wellbeing" by making our employees' lives and work worthwhile from various aspects including mind and body, such as improving systems for childcare and nursing care, and establishing a fitness gym in the head office so that each employee can achieve a high level of Decent Work.

* A qualification system that certifies that you have knowledge and ability of machine safety based on international safety standards, and as a standard certification project of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), the Japan Electrical Control Equipment Manufacturers Association (NECA) has established and institutionalized qualification certification standards, which are operated by Japan Certification Co., Ltd. (JC).

■ Occupational Safety and Health System



Ethical code of conduct 

IDEC publishes the IDEC Group Code of Conduct, which sets forth basic guidelines for the conduct of business activities, on a global basis. The IDEC Group Code of Conduct is based on our Group philosophy “The IDEC Way,” and is positioned to consolidate the actions that employees should take into three axes: “Workplace” (actions toward human rights and workplace environments), “Social” (actions toward society and the environment), and “Business” (actions toward business operations), which are structured so that they can be easily communicated throughout the world.
We are also building a highly transparent compliance system by conducting ongoing compliance training, formulating anti-corruption policies, and arranging internal reporting systems.

IDEC Group Code of Conduct

Implementation of human rights education

IDEC has indicated the following five items as points for our commitment to human rights issues, and is systematizing human rights education in accordance with each personnel level.
 
(Commitment to Human Rights Issues)

・Compliance
・Respect for basic human rights
・Prohibition of harassment
・Promotion of occupational safety and health
・Freedom of association and collective bargaining rights

Rights for labor unions and collective bargaining

IDEC Corporation and its affiliates, IDEC Systems & Controls Corporation and IDEC Sales Support Corporation (hereafter referred to as “the Companies”), have concluded a collective labor agreement with the IDEC Labor Union of the Japanese Electrical Electronic & Information Union (hereafter referred to as “the Union”). 
The purpose of this agreement is to ensure normal and fair labor-management relations between the Companies and the Union to respect each other's positions based on the principles of understanding, good faith, and sincerity, and to maintain peaceful relations between the Companies and the Union.