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Oct 2, 2012

Akebono Brake Awarded the Fiscal Year 2012 Excellence Award from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in the Family-friendly Enterprises Category of the Equal Opportunity Employment & Work-Life Balance Awards

Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd. was honored with the Fiscal Year 2012 Excellence Award in the Family-friendly Enterprises Category of the Equal Opportunity Employment & Work-Life Balance Awards.

This award is an initiative sponsored by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to award companies that are making exemplary efforts to proactively help women fulfill their potential and to support a balance between work, child care and nursing care.

On the basis of its company policies for 2012, Akebono Brake Industry is endeavoring to create an environment in which a wide array of human resources can flourish regardless of gender, nationality, or occupation in addition to supporting measures to balance work and home life.

The company is working to create an environment that allows its employees to easily participate in childcare and nursing care while working and is making efforts to enhance its systems for childcare leave, nursing care leave, and shorter working hours. Employees can utilize the shorter working hours system multiple times for childcare until a child reaches the sixth grade and for a total of 3 years for nursing care. As other measures to improve the in-house environment, Akebono Brake Industry provides its employees with training to deepen their understanding of how to balance work and family life and it also offers its employees a "Career Partner Program" that allows employees who must resign because of family circumstances to be rehired at the same qualification level that they had reached before resigning. Akebono received the award in the Family-friendly Enterprises Category as recognition for its efforts such as these.

The awards ceremony to present the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Excellence Award will be held October 9 at the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.