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When it becomes difficult to continue working full-time due to life stages such as child-rearing or elderly care, employees may be forced to leave their regular employee status and enter into a new employment contract. In Japan's working environment, if an employment contract is changed to a contract employee status, there is a risk of suffering significant disadvantages in the future. In April 2011, thanks to the efforts of our committee, a part-time regular employee system was introduced, which allows employees to continue working as regular employees.
For more information, please contact the Human Resources Department.
When there was no part-time full-time employee system and employees had to switch to working as part-time contract employees, there were the following disadvantages:
We will continue to closely monitor the content and results of the part-time full-time employee system and continue discussions to make it an even better system.