Promoting Diversity

Kumiai Chemical Group Basic Policy on Human Resources Management

1. Creating rewarding workplaces
   The Kumiai Chemical Group believes human resources are the most important factor in and indispensable for sustainable corporate growth, and actively builds working environments where employees can work enthusiastically as they enjoy work-life balance. We also foster a culture that offers employees steady validation, a sense of accomplishment, and hope for the future, so that they can achieve self-fulfillment and maximum happiness through their work.
2. Creating safe and healthy working environments
   The Kumiai Chemical Group prevents industrial accidents and diseases as well as promoting the creation of safe and healthy working environments by ensuring that employees are aware of legal requirements related to safety, health, and disaster prevention, reflecting discussions at the Safety and Health Committee, which includes employee representatives.
3. Ensuring fair working conditions
   The Kumiai Chemical Group respects fundamental rights related to labor, including freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining. Through constructive labor-management dialogue in councils with the labor union, we ensure fair working conditions by complying with labor-related laws and regulations, such as rules on minimum wages and working hours, as well as maintaining a well-balanced personnel system and working to further improve the treatment of employees.
4. Fair and equitable human resource management
   The Kumiai Chemical Group trains highly ethical human resources capable of acting in accordance with its Corporate Philosophy and with a high level of expertise and a global perspective, using systems that support fair and equitable human resource management and development.
5. Promotion of diversity
   The Kumiai Chemical Group achieves diversity and inclusion that enables its diverse human resources to make the most of their individual values and abilities.

Promoting Diversity and Inclusion

We are endeavoring to promote diversity because we recognize that having a variety of perspectives and values is essential for ensuring sustainable growth. We train women, non-Japanese workers, and mid-career hires as managers and specialists based on personnel evaluations that are fair according to the person’s abilities and achievements without discriminating according to age, nationality, gender, or other characteristics.
As a result of our efforts to promote diversity in hiring, women accounted for 31.3% of new graduate hires, and mid-career workers accounted for 27.3% of annual hires in FY2022.
We are also formulating ways for supporting the success of women in the workplace, and will set and achieved each KPI. We will provide training on diversity in order to create a corporate culture where diverse human resources are able to use their abilities to the full with confidence.

Ratio of female hires to new graduate hires

Ratio of mid-career hires to annual hires

KPIs for promoting diversity