It is very important for both companies and society to protect the basic rights of workers.
As a manufacturer with rubber manufacturing plants, Yokohama Rubber has established the Human Resource Policy and Basic Policy Towards Health and Safety, while the Yokohama Rubber Group Action Guidelines stipulate the company's basic policy towards creating safe and healthy workplaces and the actions that should be taken by employees.

To achieve the YX2026 business and technology strategy, Yokohama Rubber Group recognizes the critical importance of promoting diversity and inclusion. Specifically, we believe that ensuring gender equality and enabling an age-free work environment are essential to realizing a truly diverse workplace. This means creating an environment where each individual's identity is respected, where there is no discrimination, and where everyone can thrive in a healthy and fulfilling work environment.
The most rewarding aspect of our diversity and inclusion efforts has been the growing interest and participation from a large number of our employees. We believe that sparking interest is the first step towards understanding. We aim to foster a deeper understanding of diversity, raise awareness of unconscious biases, and emphasize that inclusion isn’t about homogenization but about creating a foundation where diverse individuals can thrive. We are encouraged to see the positive shift in individual mindsets and will continue to strengthen our awareness campaigns.
Moving forward, we will continue to create an environment where all employees can excel. We recognize that all our initiatives are built upon a foundation of employee well-being, and we remain committed to prioritizing health and wellness initiatives.

Kazutoshi Morimoto
General Manager, Head of HR Department

At all business sites around the world, it is important to ingrain the culture of "creating a safe and comfortable working environment and good health" that Yokohama Rubber has fostered. By preventing the recurrence of disasters and identifying and eradicating latent causes of disasters through safety diagnosis and monitoring the progress, and by conducting activities to eliminate unanticipated risks through conducting risk assessments and providing education programs for each level, we will further improve our workplace from one with zero accidents to the one with zero risks. In addition, we will work on the promotion of mental health through stress checks, environmental improvement by taking measures to deal with hot conditions, enhancement of health checkups, and response to new infectious disease risks, as well as work to cooperate with health insurance associations in order to promote the health of our employees.

Yasuhiro Kuhara
General Manager, Head of Safety & Health Management Department, Corporate Social Responsibility Division

• We will become an organization where diverse human resources can give full play to their abilities regardless of age, gender, nationality, etc.
• We will establish a safety culture aiming for zero risks while promoting both physical and mental health.

Employee-employer relationship

Basic position

Yokohama Rubber respects the three labor rights (the right to organize, the right to collective bargaining, and the right to act collectively or the right to strike), and strives to maintain a good and trust employee-employer relationship based on collaboration and coordination between labor and management. The labor union and the company deliberate various issues that both of us face by sharing medium-term issues between both labor and management. Not only at opportunities for discussion for the entire company, discussion about labor conditions relating to safety and health, production and sales activities, salaries, and social benefits are also discussed at business sites, some of which are making efforts to improve their labor conditions by incorporating the opinions and requests about their facilities from union members.

Number of Strikes and Lockouts at YRC (Standalone) over the Past Three Years

(Major labor-management consultations and committees)

• Collective bargaining in spring and autumn
• Central Labor-Management Council meeting (five times a year)
• Regional Labor-Management Council meeting (six times a year)
• Working Hours Committee meeting (12 times a year)
• Health and Welfare Committee meeting (12 times a year)
• Equal Pay for Equal Work Committee meeting (twice a year)

Number of employees joining the labor union

Yokohama Rubber adopts the union shop system, in which an employee automatically becomes a member of the labor union when hired or recruited as a regular worker. All employees except for several employees holding managerial or executive positions are in the union at work.

• Union membership stood at 5,080 (as of December 31, 2023)

Labor conditions

Yokohama Rubber ensures that employees are informed of their labor conditions including a compensation system, performance evaluation, a pay rise system, standards for pay rise, etc. in an effort to secure transparency. Regarding labor conditions newly made in labor-management consultations, both labor and management inform changes in conditions of employees to gain their understanding and support. Our basic policy is to pay a living wage that is at least the minimum wage. For overtime work and late-night work, we provide allowances more than what are specified by laws and regulations.

＜Management Evaluation Framework＞

＜Evaluation Framework for General Staff＞

＜Banding Systems＞

We have an internal and external (lawyer's firm) hotline for consultation on labor practice-related compliance.

Internal Reporting System (Compliance Hotline) and Open Consultation Room

Internal Survey Results over the Past Three Years

■　Question: "Are you satisfied with your job?" Percentage of Positive Responses:
2021：54.1％
2022：54.0％
2023：55.4％

■　Question: "Do you feel a sense of purpose or meaning in your work?" Percentage of Positive Responses:
2021：55.2％
2022：55.2％
2023：55.6％

■　Question: "Do you feel that the workplace has a positive and supportive atmosphere?" Percentage of Positive Responses:
2021：70.0％
2022：69.9％
2023：71.4％

Considering the level of impact of business activities and the level of social interest, the following have been established as the important action items to be preferentially addressed by the Yokohama Rubber Group.