Benefits for child care and nursing care exceeding legally mandated levels
The NTT Group believes in the importance of balancing careers with private life, and has long offered child care and nursing care benefits that go beyond legally mandated levels. To help address Japan's low birthrate and aging population, we also place no limits on the number of dependents that employees may claim in calculating the amount of their family allowance.
In 2008 we implemented a rehiring program for employees who previously left their careers to devote themselves to child rearing, and we instituted paid leave for those who are raising children of high-school age or younger and for those undergoing fertility treatment. In addition to continuously enhancing such measures for better work-life balance, we have also created the NTT Group Child Care and Family Care Support site on the NTT intranet to provide a range of information including details of benefits available to employees, how they may take advantage of those benefits, and experiences of others who have accessed such benefits.
| Program | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Child care | Child care leave | Available to parents of children less than three years old |
| Reduced working hours | Allows parents to limit their workday to 4, 5, or 6 hours until the end of the fiscal year in which the child enters third grade. | |
| Re-employment of those who have left careers to raise children | Available subject to approval to employees who have submitted an application for re-employment within three years after their resignation and while the child is in third grade or under | |
| Child care support service | A variety of benefits are available, such as discount coupons for drop-off and pick-up of children at daycare centers. | |
| Family care | Nursing leave | Up to 18 months of leave to provide family nursing care |
| Reduced working hours | Allows those with family members in need of nursing care to limit their workday to 4, 5, or 6 hours, for up to three years. | |
| Nursing care support service | Discount coupons that can be used to pay care providers | |
| Other | Maternity leave | Paid maternity leave (not applicable to employees on probation) |
| Flexible use of unused annual leave for child care, family nursing care, or fertility treatments | Applicable also to sabbatical leave, volunteer work, or recurrent education | |
| Leave to take care of family members | For each instance, up to five days of leave is available to care for a family member who is ill or giving birth. | |
| Compensation for use of assets accumulated under employee savings scheme | Provides compensation when a withdrawal is made from an employee savings scheme for specific purposes such as child care and education. |
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Awarded the Kurumin Mark
In April 2008, NTT was awarded the Kurumin Mark, a certification provided by Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, in recognition of the achievements of its efforts to support child rearing by company employees. The Kurumin mark has also been awarded to other NTT Group companies.
NTT Group companies that have earned the Kurumin Mark include:
NTT, NTT East, NTT West, NTT Communications, NTT DATA, NTT DOCOMO, and NTT COMWARE
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Multipurpose room for use by female employees during and after pregnancy
NTT DOCOMO Hokkaido has established a multipurpose room within its offices for use by female employees during and after pregnancy. The company plans to continue actively implementing other such ways to make it easier for employees to balance work and family obligations.
Multipurpose room
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Telework now part of business operations
In February 2008, NTT DATA began full-scale integration of telework into its business operations following telework trials conducted from July 2006. NTT DATA plans to increase the number of employees with telework arrangements to boost productivity and choice of work style.
Teleworker
A cafeteria-style menu listing assorted employee benefits
The NTT Group operates a cafeteria plan that offers employees a selection of benefits to choose from in line with their individual lifestyle needs. The cafeteria plan features options in a wide range of categories including health promotion and asset accumulation plans, child and nursing care options, and benefits related to housing. And to further help employees with life design, we offer life design training, a lifestyle information portal site, and counseling services to help employees design life plans.
Cafeteria Plan Guidebook
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