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To expand creative business activities through the application of diverse human resources, Lion is promoting internal diversity.
Lion involves employees in the formulation and planning of human resource measures aimed at enabling diverse human resources to participate more fully and advance professionally. A team responsible for diversity within the Human Resources Development Center implements a variety of measures to promote diversity.
Lion recognizes that the professional participation and advancement of women is indispensable to the further enhancement of corporate value and is proactively implementing measures to promote the professional engagement of women.
Based on the Act on Promotion of Women’s Participation and Advancement in the Workplace passed by the Japanese Diet in 2016, Lion is implementing measures to enable the long-term professional participation of women. These include expanding our childcare-related programs and implementing measures to support employees balancing childcare obligations with work. Such measures have successfully enabled employees to stay with Lion over the long term, with the average years of service of female Lion employees at 12.8 years, compared with 16.7 years for men (non-consolidated basis, including employees on loan).
Through a range of initiatives, we have increased the proportion of female employees at the management level*1 in Japan to 18.4% (2020). Looking toward 2030, we aim to advance the professional development and promotion of women on a Group-wide basis, targeting a rate of women in management*2 of at least 30% for the Group, and at least 35% for Lion Corporation.
Lion’s action plans based on the Act on Promotion of Women’s Participation and Advancement in the Workplace and its Declaration for the Promotion of Women’s Participation and Advancement in the Workplace are available on the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare’s portal site for information about positive action to promote women’s participation and advancement in the workplace.
Lion’s entry in the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare’s database of companies submitting action plans and data based on the Act on Promotion of Women’s Participation and Advancement in the Workplace [Japanese]*1 Personnel holding managerial positions at the level of assistant manager or higher
*2 Personnel holding managerial positions at the level of manager or higher
Proportion of Female Employees at the Management Level
Lion Corporation
Lion Corporate has established the following action plan in order to create environments in which employees with diverse work styles and values can participate and advance, regardless of such factors as nationality, gender or age, and to further increase opportunities for value creation.
Target 1: A rate of women in management* of at least 35% by the end of 2030
From 2021:
* At the level of manager or higher, in general
Target 2: For 100% of eligible men to take childcare leave by the end of 2030
From 2021:
In March 2016, we established the special subsidiary Lion Tomoni Co., Ltd. as a workplace designed to maximize the valuable attributes of people with disabilities, such as dedication, persistence, motivation, ability to concentrate, desire to contribute and positive attitude. The business actives of Lion Tomoni help streamline and rationalize Group operations.
Lion Tomoni Co., Ltd.’s 28 employees and six instructors (as of December 31, 2020) engage in a wide variety of operations, such as cleaning the employee cafeteria and washing laboratory ware, preparing business cards and employee badges, and operating a stationery reuse service. Under the mottos of “safety first” and “working with dedication and vigor,” Lion Tomoni will continue to promote the hiring and professional participation of people with disabilities.
From 2011 to 2019, Lion’s career counseling desk helped employees proactively enhance their own career path. Focused on Lion employees, the desk accepted consultations via phone or email, and provided opportunities for face-to-face career consultations to help employees gain new insights by soliciting employee participation. A cumulative total of 819 employees used the system (as of the end of 2019). Annual surveys of its users found a high level of satisfaction regarding their consultations and positive changes in their mindsets and actions. In 2020, we completely revamped the career counseling desk and launched what we call Career Design Support, which is aimed at supporting conscious autonomy that will enable employees to advance their careers themselves based on their own aspirations and actions. The desk offers career consultations and disseminates information in and outside the Company, helping employees design their careers and rediscover their own potential.
Since 2011, Lion has offered support systems for married couples who both work for Lion as a way of supporting the diversifying work styles of its employees. With prior registration, when an employee’s spouse is transferred within Japan or overseas, the employee can either accompany their spouse while taking a leave of absence, resign from the Company with the option of being rehired within five years, or change their own work location to that of their spouse.
Lion introduced a system for re-hiring retired employees in 2006. Under the revised system, the Company seeks to increase the motivation of re-hired employees by providing an environment that allows them to work on terms similar to those applying to ordinary employees. This includes re-hiring all applicants, permitting changes of duties during their contract period and awarding performance-based bonuses. Furthermore, incorporating employee suggestions, the Company conducts explanatory orientations about the system for employees three years before they reach the standard retirement age as well as meetings with their superiors upon re-hiring to help them understand their new roles. In 2020, the re-hiring rate for retirees was 86.3%.
Lion has established a system to re-hire former employees who have voluntarily resigned so that they might leverage their diverse life and career experience and knowledge in working at Lion again.
Lion has offered a regionally based employee program since 2013. This program is aimed at securing outstanding human resources who are contributing greatly from among Lion’s pool of temporary employees and enabling regular employees to practice diverse work styles. Under the system, the whole of Japan is divided into seven blocks, and participating employees are guaranteed not be transferred out of the block of their choosing. These employees’ compensation and benefits are on par with those of regular employees.
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 5 | 17 | 17 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018*2 | 2019*2 | 2020*2 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Employees | ||||||
| Lion Corporation | Male | 2,239 | 2,203 | 2,267 | 1,863 | 1,971 |
| Female | 775 | 821 | 917 | 987 | 1,148 | |
| Domestic Group companies | Male | 636 | 643 | 560 | 374 | 384 |
| Female | 173 | 182 | 145 | 57 | 57 | |
| Female employee ratio | ||||||
| Lion Corporation | 25.7% | 27.1% | 28.8% | 34.6% | 36.8% | |
| Domestic Group companies | 21.4% | 22.1% | 20.6% | 13.2% | 12.9% | |
| New hires (new graduates) | ||||||
| Lion Corporation | Male | 49 | 57 | 63 | 42 | 54 |
| Female | 29 | 36 | 33 | 34 | 33 | |
| Domestic Group companies | Male | 11 | 16 | 16 | 12 | 19 |
| Female | 6 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 10 | |
| Re-hired retirees | ||||||
| Lion Corporation | Number | 250 | 216 | 210 | 160 | 185 |
| % | 8.3% | 7.1% | 6.6% | 5.6% | 5.9% | |
| Domestic Group companies | Number | 10 | 9 | 8 | 47 | 58 |
| % | 1.2% | 1.1% | 1.1% | 10.9% | 15.1% | |
| Temporary employees | ||||||
| Lion Corporation | 467 | 458 | 532 | 528 | 196 | |
| Domestic Group companies | 60 | 66 | 27 | 68 | 67 | |
| Female employees at the management level*3 | ||||||
| Lion Corporation | Number | 149 | 170 | 186 | 200 | 226 |
| % | 12.9% | 14.4% | 15.8% | 17.1% | 18.4% | |
| Female managers*4 | ||||||
| Lion Corporation | Number | 62 | 68 | 74 | 76 | 77 |
| % | 6.9% | 7.5% | 8.2% | 11.0% | 10.6% | |
| Domestic Group companies | Number | 6 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 |
| % | 3.8% | 1.5% | 1.6% | 2.6% | 3.2% | |
| Employees with disabilities | ||||||
| Lion Corporation | Number | 55 | 63 | 76 | 77 | 75 |
| % | 2.2% | 2.4% | 2.8% | 2.8% | 2.7% | |
| Employees who took childcare leave | ||||||
| Lion Corporation | Male | 2 | 9*5 | 16 | 13 | 32 |
| Female | 53 | 57 | 53 | 61*5 | 78 | |
| Domestic Group companies | Male | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Female | 5 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | |
| Employees who took shorter work hours for childcare | ||||||
| Lion Corporation | Male | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Female | 40 | 57 | 64*5 | 63*5 | 73 | |
| Domestic Group companies | Male | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Female | 9 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 4 | |
| Average overtime per month | ||||||
| Lion Corporation | 12.3hours | 12.5hours | 13.7hours | 13.5hours | 8.7hours | |
| Domestic Group companies | 11.2hours | 9.4hours | 13.8hours | 10.2hours | 8.1hours | |
| Annual paid leave used | ||||||
| Lion Corporation | 55.1% | 50.7% | 60.3% | 73.7% | 68.6% | |
| Domestic Group companies | 57.3% | 53.2% | 53.7% | 64.2% | 64.6% | |
| Average service years (excluding rehired retirees) | ||||||
| Lion Corporation | Male | 20.3 | 20.4 | 19.6 | 17.2 | 16.7 |
| Female | 18.0 | 18.0 | 16.8 | 14.1 | 12.8 | |
| Domestic Group companies | Male | 15.5 | 15.4 | 14.7 | 18.9 | 20.7 |
| Female | 13.2 | 13.8 | 11.8 | 14.7 | 13.0 | |
| Employees who resigned within three years of entering the Company | ||||||
| Lion Corporation | Number | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8*5 | 10 |
| % | 1.6% | 0.4% | 0.8% | 3%*5 | 4% | |
| Domestic Group companies | Number | 2 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| % | 3.8% | 1.1% | 3.8% | 1.5% | 4.6% | |
*1
Non-consolidated figures include employees on loan
(except for figures for female employees at the management level)
*2 Data for domestic Group companies reflects the decrease in the number of consolidated subsidiaries
*3 Personnel holding managerial positions at the level of assistant manager or higher
*4 Personnel holding managerial positions at the level of manager or higher
*5 The figures have been revised due to an error in past data