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Social Responsibility
About
Together with Employees
Creating an Environment for Diverse Employees
Respect for human rights
The entire Group is committed to showing respect for all employees
The entire Konica Minolta Group is committed to showing respect for the human rights of each and every employee. In the Konica Minolta Group Conduct Guidelines and the Compliance Manual, Konica Minolta states its commitment as follows:
- We respect individuality, human rights, and the privacy of all of its employees.
- We seek to eliminate discrimination of all kinds, whether based on race, nationality, gender, religion, belief, or physical disability.
- We seek to eliminate child labor and forced labor.
- We endeavor to create a safe and healthy workplace environment.
Konica Minolta also strives to ensure that all employees are aware of these priorities.
As part of its efforts to promote compliance, Konica Minolta has established consultation offices for addressing human rights violations in each of its host countries.
Employee Diversity
Emphasizing the importance of equal opportunity and diversity
Konica Minolta emphasizes the importance of equal opportunity and diversity in the hiring and compensation of employees, and does not tolerate discrimination based on race, nationality, religion, or gender. The Group promotes the development of an environment where all employees can demonstrate the full extent of their capabilities.
At the end of fiscal 2008, Konica Minolta had 36,875 regular employees working for 86 companies in 27 countries.
Support for Women to Exercise their Capabilities
Konica Minolta rejects gender discrimination in every case, including hiring, compensation, training, and promotion, so that all of its employees are able to fully develop their capabilities. It promotes systems that support a work-life balance, and encourages the creation of work environments that prevent the incidence of harassment.
The active promotion of female employees into management positions will be an important issue for the Group going forward. To achieve this, Konica Minolta is planning to conduct training aimed at raising the level of interest in career development among female employees, and to promote the activation by building networks between female employees.
Cultivating and Promoting “Global Personnel”
As its business has become more globalized, Konica Minolta has endeavored to promote personnel management strategies aimed at cultivating and promoting employees with global business savvy.
As part of these efforts, the company is promoting the hiring and active use of foreign workers in its Group companies in Japan. It is reinforcing personnel exchanges between Group companies in Japan and affiliated companies outside Japan, to develop employees' global business savvy, and to utilize it in everyday business activities.
Hiring of Handicapped Employees
Konica Minolta has created a workplace environment in which all employees, regardless of handicap, can maximally demonstrate their capabilities and safely carry out their work. The employment rate of handicapped personnel at the Group companies in Japan was 1.85% in fiscal 2008, but additional efforts need to be made to continue to increase this percentage.
Promoting Work-Life Balance
Supporting a balanced approach to work and personal life among employees
Next-generation certification logo, “Kurumin”
Konica Minolta is striving to provide various systems to support work-life balance to help employees maximize their capabilities in the workplace while also achieving a fulfilling personal life.
Group companies in Japan have adopted child-rearing support systems for men and women alike, including parental leave, shorter working hours for childcare, and child nursing-care leave, as well as a menu of other elective services. They also have systems of leave and shorter working hours for family nursing-care, which include support beyond that required by law. In fiscal 2008, the companies began a trial program that enables an employee to work at home during child-rearing, and are now preparing to fully implement this system.
As a result of these efforts, Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc. and Konica Minolta Technology Center, Inc. have obtained Kurumin certification from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in May 2007. The certification is given to companies whose parental support programs satisfy the Ministry's criteria for helping foster the next generation.
Maternity Leave and Parental Support Programs Use
| Number of employees taking maternity leave (Total number of regular female employees: 1,270) |
53 |
|---|---|
| Number of employees taking parental leave | 104 women, 4 men |
| Number of employees using the system of shorter working hours for childcare | 149 women, 0 men |
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- Fiscal 2008. Scope: Regular employees at the holding company, business companies, and common function companies in Japan.
Harassment Prevention
Striving to create an environment with zero tolerance for harassment
To protect employees against sexual harassment or the abuse of power in the workplace, Konica Minolta has included a prohibition against harassment in the Konica Minolta Group Conduct Guidelines and the Compliance Manual. The Group has also established the Sexual Harassment Prevention Guidelines and strives to educate employees by conducting harassment prevention training.
As part of its efforts to promote compliance, Konica Minolta has established consultation offices for addressing harassment complaints in each of its host countries.
