Diversity of Human Resources

TOYO TIRE is committed to ensuring fair employment practices and treatment of employees across our organization. We are also striving to create workplaces where diverse individuals can fully demonstrate their capabilities, regardless of nationality or gender. In terms of recruiting, we endeavor to secure necessary human resources through various methods - not only new graduate and mid-career recruiting, but also disabled persons and the reemployment of retired employees.

We are developing various personnel systems to empower employees while also conducting career interviews with every employee and drawing up a human resources development plan. We also organize a variety of awareness-raising training sessions, including e-learning on topics such as diversity & inclusion.
A good example of how diversity can be promoted can be found at Toyo Tire Japan Co., Ltd., which has maintained a human resources empowerment committee since 2016. The committee's main goals are the career advancement and empowerment of female employees. Recognizing that it is of equal importance to have supervisors and male employees actively participate in the committee's initiatives and raise their awareness, the committee now involves all employees in its activities. Thanks partly to their aggressive efforts to review job descriptions, job responsibilities, and authorities of female employees to assist their career advancement, more women are holding managerial positions within the Group.
Meanwhile, Toyo Tires Logistics Co., Ltd. continues to offer a workplace environment where employees with mental/developmental disabilities keep a positive outlook for the future and are better motivated to work. To foster mutual understanding in pleasant working conditions, in fiscal 2020, they encouraged their employees to take on new duties that would allow them to harness their special talents, focusing on expanding each employee's potential. Widening the range of work and increasing opportunities to communicate with peers will create a workplace environment where diverse persons with or without disabilities can give full play to their talent and help us to recruit human resources.
Going forward, we will make continued efforts to create a workplace where every employee is given equal opportunities, regardless of their attributes.
We also develop workplaces that encourage everyone, regardless of their gender, to take on challenges, assist them in developing their careers that reflect diverse values and lifestyles, and revitalize workplace communication needed to offer such support. One of the initiatives that we have launched to create a gender-equal workplace environment is the revision of our dress code at the TOYO TIRE Headquarters and other bases/sites to allow male employees to dress in smart casual attire. Also, both male and female employees are paid equally within the Toyo Tire Group in principle.

To create workplaces where diverse individuals can fully demonstrate their capabilities, we are promoting work-life balance through reforms to how people work. For example, as part of efforts to support employees with family responsibilities, we have established childcare and family-care leave systems, which enable employees to concentrate on raising their children (up to the age of two) or caring for family members (for a maximum of one year). We have also introduced a system to restore expired annual leave, to allow employees to use their unused paid leave granted in the year before last. In the past, allowable reasons for the use of the annual leave restoration system were illness/injury, childcare, family nursing care, and volunteer activities, but hospital visits and hospitalization for infertility treatment have been added to the list, enabling employees to use their expired annual leave to accompany their spouses for infertility treatment.