The Fujikura Group Policy on Human Rights expresses the responsibility to respect basic human rights stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights during the course of our business activities globally.

In addition, during the course of establishing policies and measures on human rights, we strive to promote understanding and the actualization of human rights referencing international norms such as the International Labor Standards, the International Labour Organization's Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, and the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, established by the UN.

The Fujikura Group has established a basic policy to identify the needs of stakeholders and reflect this in its personnel policies and systems in order to build win-win relationships with customers, employees and society.

The Fujikura Group established the Group HRM Vision in September 2017 as a compass guiding our human resources management to ensure we can beat out competition globally and grow as a group of companies.

Through the establishment of the Group HRM Vision, we hope to speed up the hiring of human resources globally, create an environment where all group employees can achieve growth and self-actualization through their work, provide career opportunities to all regardless of nationality, race, gender, religion or age, promote diversity that embraces a workforce with various backgrounds and approaches, and foster global leaders. This is achieved by putting these actions into writing and broadly sharing them with stakeholders inside and outside the company. Through the Group Human Resource Committee and others, we seek to share information with other group companies and ensure the Group HRM Vision is implemented by all.

Under the Fujikura Group Corporate Philosophy (MVCV), the Fujikura Group has established standards for ethical consideration and the health and safety management of employees to establish a workplace environment that respects human rights and is comfortable for employees by establishing workplaces where a diverse workforce can thrive professionally.

In 2017, we established the Fujikura Group Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement in response to the UK’s Modern Slavery Act 2015. Since establishing the statement, we are making efforts to make it known to all of our employees globally through our company intranet.This Statement has been reported to the Management Meeting of the Company and signed by Shigeo Sekikawa, Senior Vice President & Member of the Board, Human Rights Officer.

The Fujikura Group hires locally whenever it establishes or expands its production sites overseas in order to actively contribute to the local society and economy through job creation. We make sure that wages paid to employees hired locally exceed the minimum wage in each particular location.

Each of our companies have rules in place for decent pay, various stipends for commuting, bonuses, other discretionary pay, and retirement benefits, based on the labor standards laws and labor agreements in each country.

For management staff at Fujikura and its main affiliated companies, we have introduced an arrangement of role ranks based on their current job and roles. We ensure there is no gender gap in the compensation system.

Outside of Japan, we have established rules in full compliance with local laws on wages concerning the minimum wage, statutory pay, and overtime work in every country where we operate. Based on these laws, we ensure wages are paid according to a pre-determined schedule.

Using the internal reporting system and partners' meetings with suppliers, we develop internal responses when human rights problems manifest, following the Fujikura Group Policy on Human Rights.

In fiscal 2017, we developed an understanding of efforts impacting human rights and identified priority issues to address in the future within the Fujikura Group’s business activities, including procurement and manufacturing. In addition, we participate in human rights workshops organized by NGOs to gather the latest information on human rights issues.

At the Fujikura Group, we established the Fujikura Group Harassment Prevention Policy and promote the following initiatives.

At the Fujikura Group, every year we hold a Human Rights Day Campaign coinciding with Human Rights Day on December 10. This campaign involves displaying posters at our workplaces inside and outside of Japan to raise awareness internally about human rights and the Fujikura Group Policy on Human Rights. In addition, we provide employees across the group with the opportunity to think about human rights by conveying information about the background as to why the UN established the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Human Rights Day.

We recognize that freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining are fundamental human rights that must be respected by companies. In labor agreements concluded between Fujikura and the Fujikura Labor Union, we acknowledge that the labor union has the right to organize, the right to collective bargaining, and the right to strike.

We are committed to building relationships of trust between labor and management through discussions conducted with mutual respect by both parties. In order to keep labor union members fully informed, we also hold briefing sessions and consultation meetings on management policies, business plans, management measures, and business measures. In addition, management and union members engage in frank exchanges of opinions, striving to deepen mutual understanding and resolve any issues or disputes when they arise. We also hold regular labor-management workshops inviting union leaders, the President, and divisional managers as lecturers to speak about the management environment of the Company, corporate policies, and the labor union's policies. Labor conditions are also determined through labor-management discussions and agreements reached at consultation meetings.