Obtained the highest Eruboshi ranking (3 stars) as a company that excels in promoting women’s empowerment.
*Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.*
Press release: September 6, 2024
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Obtained the highest Eruboshi ranking (3 stars) as a company that excels in promoting women’s empowerment.
*Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd. (President: Sasayama
Shinichi (hereinafter referred to as “Tokyo Gas”) has recently received the highest rank (three stars) of the “Eruboshi” rating, which is certified by the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare as an excellent company that promotes the active participation of women. *
Based on the Act on Promotion of Women’s Participation and Advancement in the Workplace, “Eruboshi Certification” is given to companies that have formulated and submitted action plans and that meet certain requirements, such as excellent implementation of initiatives related to women’s active participation. This is a certification system. There are three levels of certification based on the number of items that meet the criteria among the five evaluation items:
“Recruitment”, “Continued employment”, “Work style including working hours”, “Ratio of managers”, and “Diverse career courses”. You can receive
Tokyo Gas met all five criteria above and received the highest rating of 3 stars.
The Tokyo Gas Group is implementing the 2023-2025 group medium-term management plan “Compass Transformation”.
23-25, we have positioned “creating an organization where diverse human resources can play an active role” as one of our key issues, and have set out “strengthening human capital management” so that each group member and the Tokyo Gas Group can both experience growth. Masu. In particular, we are positioning the empowerment of women as the starting point and are promoting a variety of initiatives.
We aim to become a corporate group that continues to create value together with customers, society, and business partners, with each and every group member respecting visible and invisible differences and working hard together.
* ■Tokyo Gas’s efforts to promote the active participation of women*1* * 1. Initiatives linked to management strategy *
・In the management vision “Compass 2030,” we established a basic human resources policy as a human resources strategy to realize our business strategy, and announced that we would “create a place where diversity can collide and work together in a friendly manner” and promote diversity initiatives.
・The 23-25 Medium-Term Management Plan positions “creating an organization where diverse human resources can play an active role” as a materiality, and the KPIs for realizing the management strategy are “ratio of female managers” and “percentage of men taking childcare leave (1 month).” ), etc., and manage its progress.
・In 2023, when the new president is appointed, we will announce the “DE&I Top Commitment” and aim to become a corporate group that respects the backgrounds, ways of thinking, and work styles of the diverse human resources that gather in our group, and continues to create new value with their diverse strengths. We are committed to becoming better both internally and externally.
・In 2024, a new DE&I promotion officer will be appointed. Under the new system, we will further accelerate DE&I promotion efforts. * 2. Creating a workplace environment where you can work with peace of mind * ・In order to reduce the impact of women’s health issues on their careers and create a comfortable work environment, we hold “Femtech seminars” and “Menstrual pain experience sessions”*2.
* 3.Career formation and growth support*
・In order to leverage women’s motivation and encourage them to take on challenges, we hold various career seminars and unconscious bias training.
* ■Selected as a “Nadeshiko Brand”*
As a company that actively promotes the empowerment of women, we have been selected as a “Nadeshiko Brand” jointly organized by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Tokyo Stock Exchange for two years in a row.
* ■Women’s success as seen through data*
The number of female employees and female managers are both increasing. -Number of female employees-
FY2021 FY2022 FY2023 Current (as of April 1, 2024)
Number of male employees 6,194 6,053 6,011 5,242
Number of female employees 1,253(16.8) 1,248(17.1) 1,248(17.2) 1,238(19.1) *FY2021-2023 are the results as of the end of March for each fiscal year. *Unit is person. The percentage of women among all employees is shown in parentheses.
-Number of female managers-
*1: Click here for details on promoting the advancement of women at Tokyo Gas ( https://www.tokyo-gas.co.jp/recruit/diversity/career/index.html
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