Basic approach

Respect the personalities and rights of every one

At AISIN we respect the personalities and rights of every one of our employees irrespective of gender, nationality, religion or any other attribute, and we are striving to create a working environment in which everyone can work with full peace of mind.

We also strive to create and improve systems that enable employees to select how they wish to work from a wide variety of options.

Diverse range of working style

Support for combining work and child-rearing

In order to provide support for employees who need to combine work with child-rearing, at AISIN we are introducing a reduced-hours working system and a system that allows employees to take parental leave.

In October 2007 we set up an in-house nursery in our head office premises for use by employees. See pages 51 and 52 for further details.

• Details of the in-house nursery can be seen here.

Employment of people with disabilities

Based on the approach of normalization and coexistence

On the basis of an approach rooted in the concepts of normalization and harmonious coexistence, we aim to create working environments in which people with and without disabilities can work together in a dynamic manner. We hold regular consultation sessions for disabled employees and do all we can to respond to their concerns in connection with work and everyday life. We also hold training sessions for managers and supervisors so that advisors and superiors in the workplace are able better to understand the concerns of disabled employees.

Due to these efforts, in fiscal 2008, we achieved a disabled employment ratio of 1.90%, above the figure of 1.8% set in law.

AISIN is also concentrating on the technical training of disabled employees, and our employees who have benefited from such training have received many prizes at skills competitions held throughout Japan. See page 47 for further details.

Good Performance at Technical Skills Competition

At the 29^th Aichi Prefecture Technical Skills Competition held in 2007, Hiroshi Kitayama (Handa plant) and Ayako Murase (Machinery & Equipment plant) of Aisin Seiki were awarded the gold and bronze medals respectively in the mechanical CAD work category.

At the 7th International Abilmpyics (the international skills competition for the disabled), Emi Itakura (Trial Manufacturing plant) gained a special prize in the mechanical CAD work category.

Employment of foreigners

Appropriate Programmes for Brazilians of Japanese descent working in Japan

Over a half of the companies in the Aisin Group are overseas subsidiaries, and the number of overseas employees is increasing year by year with the advance of globalization of business activities.

There are at present around 60 foreign nationals engaged as full employees at Aisin Seiki. In addition, we employ almost 1,800 Brazilians of Japanese descent as fixed-term staff. We've created an environment in which these Japanese-Brazilians can work with peace of mind by publishing news magazines in Portuguese, using Portuguese together with Japanese for all written markings and signs inside the factory, and including Brazilian dishes on the canteen menu.

We operate a system that enables fixed-term employees to become full employees, and more and more Brazilian employees of Japanese descent are taking advantage of this system every year. Five of the 266 individuals who became full employees during fiscal 2008 were Japanese-Brazilians.

A lunch-break picture