Together with our Employees
Diversity in human resources
In order to continue to survive in the global business world by achieving our various goals as set forth in GD100, we need to facilitate utilizing our personnel with diversified value more than ever before. We will continue to make efforts to create workplaces so that all our employees including foreigners, female workers, and disabled persons can work together as a team with passion and enthusiasm.
Diversified hiring of general-career-path employees
Our hiring decisions do not consider nationality or gender.
Our human resources system GLOBAL, introduced in July 2010, has significantly widened the regulations for changing from clerical to general-career-path employee with the objective of providing ambitious and capable employees with the opportunity to take a proactive work approach. In April 2013 the system was used by 12 employees who changed their career path. Notably, we have no gender gap in basic work compensation.
Moreover, as of the end of fiscal year 2013, we (non-consolidated) had 31 foreign employees in Japan.
Number of male and female employees and average age
Our Human Resource System GLOBAL
Use of re-employment employees aged 60 or above
Operations were commenced by Yokohama Business Association Corporation (YBAC), which was established in July 2013 as a staffing company specializing in re-employment employees. As of the end of December 2013, there were 408 re-employment employees enrolled, including partner employees directly employed by Yokohama Rubber and YBAC employees. In FY2013, 90.8% of employees reaching the retirement age continued working using the re-employment system. Efforts will be made to develop successors and pass on skills while utilizing the experience and advanced skills of these employees.
Change in the Number of Re-Employment
Employment of people with disabilities
To date, the Company has been hiring at its operating sites at regular intervals graduates with disabilities, centered on work content within the scope of existing job duties that is manageable regardless of a disability. In order to widen the scope of hiring employees with disabilities, the Company started to develop new business operations. Moreover, in March 2012, in order to offer work places to an increased number of hires with disabilities, the Company launched operations at Yokohama Peer Support Co., Ltd., established for the employment of persons with disabilities. Subsequently, on May 31 the entity acquired recognition as a Special Provision Subsidiary under the Act for the Promotion of Employment of Persons with Disabilities (Disabled Persons Employment Promotion Act). We have focused on the employment of persons with intellectual disabilities since January 2012, and as of January 2014, 19 persons with disabilities were employed.
In addition, the four companies of Yokohama Rubber, Yokohama Peer Support, Yokohama Tire Japan, and Yokohama Rubber MB Japan have been recognized for having a disabled person employment ratio systems or as special subsidiaries in accordance with the grant system for employing persons with disabilities, and the employment rate of people with disabilities was 2.09% as of January 2014 (total for the four companies).
In order to promote the employment of persons with disabilities, the Yokohama Rubber Company and domestic group companies will continue to create work places where staff members with a diversity of backgrounds are able to proactively apply their capabilities.
Changes in the Employment Ratio of people with disabilities
