{"id":2987,"date":"2022-04-01T03:00:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T18:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/?p=2987"},"modified":"2022-03-31T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T01:57:00","slug":"revised-child-care-and-family-care-leave-law-fact-finding-survey-from-en-japan-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/ja\/2022\/04\/01\/revised-child-care-and-family-care-leave-law-fact-finding-survey-from-en-japan-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"Revised Child Care and Family Care Leave Law Fact-Finding Survey  ~from en Japan Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2985\" src=\"https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Father-Feeding-Baby-With-Milk-In-Bottle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Father-Feeding-Baby-With-Milk-In-Bottle-200x216.jpg 200w, https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Father-Feeding-Baby-With-Milk-In-Bottle-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Father-Feeding-Baby-With-Milk-In-Bottle-400x431.jpg 400w, https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Father-Feeding-Baby-With-Milk-In-Bottle-600x647.jpg 600w, https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Father-Feeding-Baby-With-Milk-In-Bottle.jpg 742w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u25c6<strong>&#8220;Revised Child Care and Family Care Leave Law&#8221;: 90% awareness of the contents applicable from April 2022 and 73% awareness of the contents applicable from October 2022.<\/strong><br \/>\nHave you heard about the &#8220;Revised Child Care and Family Care Leave Law,&#8221; which will go into effect in stages starting in April 2022? When asked, 79% of the respondents answered that they were familiar with the concept (16% were familiar with it well and 63% were familiar with only an overview). By employee size, 77% of companies with fewer than 300 employees (14% and 63%, respectively) and 84% of companies with 300 or more employees (22% and 62%, respectively) were aware of the system, indicating that awareness is higher among large companies.<br \/>\nWith regard to the specific details that will be implemented in stages as a result of this legal revision, 73% of respondents (14% were familiar with the law and 59% were only aware of the outline) were aware of the &#8220;creation of an environment conducive to taking childcare leave, individual notification, and mandatory measures to confirm intentions,&#8221; which will be imposed on all companies from April 2022, and the &#8220;relaxation of conditions for taking childcare leave for workers with fixed-term employment. Awareness of the &#8220;creation of postnatal paternity leave (childcare leave at birth)&#8221; and &#8220;the possibility of taking childcare leave in installments&#8221; from October 2022 was also 73% (same: 19% and 54%, respectively).<\/p>\n<p>However, according to a survey of 1,000 male employees by LegalForce,Inc. the following responses were obtained.<br \/>\n*80.4% of respondents were unaware of the revision of the Child Care and Family Care Leave Law starting in April 2022.<br \/>\n*79.0% of respondents did not know how to apply for childcare leave.<br \/>\n*32.3% of the respondents answered that it would be easier to take childcare leave if they could &#8220;secure replacement personnel&#8221; and &#8220;hold explanatory meetings for all employees&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u25c6<strong>35% responded that they have a record of male employees taking childcare leave. 59% of companies with 300 or more employees have a record of male employees taking childcare leave.<\/strong><br \/>\nThirty-five percent of male respondents answered that they have taken childcare leave when they were asked about the use of childcare leave by gender. By company size, 26% of companies with fewer than 300 employees had taken childcare leave, while 59% of companies with 300 or more employees had taken childcare leave, indicating that more than half of the large companies had taken male childcare leave. Overall, 79% of women took childcare leave, and 73% of small and medium-sized companies with fewer than 300 employees answered that they had taken childcare leave. We found that there is a difference of more than 40 percentage points in the number of men and women who have taken childcare leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u25c6&#8220;Revised Chil  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-2987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tokyo-hr-headlines-ja","tag-child-care-leave-ja"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2988,"href":"https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions\/2988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labor-consultant.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}