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Employment of people with disabilities
Private sector corporations and public institutions of the national and local governments are obliged to employ a number of people with a physical or mental disability more than a certain percentage of the whole workforce as stipulated by the Law for Employment Promotion, etc., of the Disabled. The statutory percentage of employees with disabilities of the whole workforce at ordinary private sector corporations with 56 or more regular employees* is set at 1.8%.
We show the percentages of employees with disabilities we employ over the last four years in the below graph. We are making efforts to increase the number of employees with disabilities, in compliance with the law, but the average percentage of such employees in fiscal 2007 was 1.71% of the workforce, which was less than the statutory percentage of 1.8%. (The annual average percentage is compared with the statutory percentage.) This was due to a rapid increase in the number of regular employees (an increase of about 350 employees) in fiscal 2006, and three people with disabilities left jobs in the same year.
As a result of efforts to hire more people with disabilities, the percentage of employees with disabilities at the end of fiscal 2007 was 1.92%, which was higher than the statutory percentage. In fiscal 2008, although the number of regular employees increased, we also hired people with disabilities. So the percentage of employees with disabilities was 1.93%.
We will increase the number of employees with disabilities considering the statutory percentage of employees with disabilities.
*Regular employees are defined as either of the following
1. People who are employed without a determined period of employment, and people who have been employed for a period of one month or longer.
2. People who are either hired on a daily basis or who have been employed for a period of less than one month and have worked eighteen days or more in the previous two months.
