Respect for human rights and promotion of diversity

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Goal 1:Contributing to Build a Safe, Secure, and Comfortable Society

Goal 2:Maintaining Harmony with the Global Socio-Economy

Goal 3:Promoting Global Environmental Protection

Respect for human rights and the promotion of diversity are becoming increasingly important with the ongoing evolution of global business and the diversifying ways in which people work. We are committed to improving the working conditions and systems for diverse human resources toward recruiting outstanding employees and revitalizing communications across the organization.

Respect for Human Rights and Promotion of Diversity

■Employee Data

Anritsu Corporation Employee Data

		FY2006	FY2007	FY2008
Nos. of employees Figures in parentheses show number of managers included in the total number	Male	980(232)	938(224)	745(167)
	Female	134(4)	136(4)	128(5)
	Total	1,114（236）	1,074（228）	873（172）
Average age	Male	41.8	41.7	40.4
	Female	34.6	34.9	34.8
	Total	41.0	40.8	39.6
Average working years	Male	18.3	18.1	16.6
	Female	12.2	12.1	12
	Total	17.6	17.3	15.9
Annual rated working hours		1,860.00	1,867.75	1,860.00
Average days of paid holidays used per year		14.3	14.9	14.1
Nos. of employees who took paid childcare leave		10	8	14
Nos. of employees whose employment has been extended beyond normal retirement age (for hiring employees over retirement age)	Nos. of eligible employees	15	24	30
	Nos. of employees over retirement age hired	10	20	14

Worldwide Percentages of Female Employees

	Japan	Americas	EMEA	Asia and Others	Total
Percentages of female employees to total employees (Nos.of female employees/Total employees)	13%	31%	22%	32%	23%
Percentages of female managers to male managers ((Nos. of female managers/Nos. of female employees)/ (Nos. of male managers/Nos. of male employees))	9%	68%	97%	37%	52%

■Creating Work for People with Handicaps

Unfortunately, we were not able to maintain the legally mandated ratio we had achieved after three years of effort. The employment ratio at the end of December 2008 slipped back to 1.59%, the level of three years ago, because several handicapped employees resigned citing old age or declining medical condition. We continued recruiting, step-by-step, and secured one person who is scheduled to join the company next year. In fiscal 2009, in addition to our ongoing recruitment efforts, we will continue striving to meet the legal mandate by expanding occupational fields in which the workplace cooperates with handicapped employees to support them in demonstrating their abilities.

Progress of the three-year plan

	2005/12	2006/12	2007/12	2008/12
Planned ratio (non-consolidated)	1.23%	1.43%	1.80%	----%
Actual ratio (non-consolidated)	1.31%	1.48%	1.84%	1.59%
Ref: Actual ratio (in Japan, consolidated)	1.27%	1.33%	1.57%	1.44%

■Human Rights Education

In human rights education, Anritsu worked to foster an understanding of the situation within and outside the company concerning issues that require constant vigilance, such as discrimination against minority groups, sexual harassment and abuse of power in the workplace.

■Balancing Work and Family

In fiscal 2008, we will formulate a new three-year plan and work to enhance our system by addressing deficiencies.

Anritsu Corporation's Action Plan to Support Child Welfare 2nd Stage (April 1, 2008 to March 31, 2011)

Objectives	Measures
Allow men and women employees to take leave for child-raising with greater peace of mind.	Make a child-raising leave system and other benefits available.
Reinforce system to help parent employees with temporary child-raising service charges.	Subsidize child-raising service charges at a family support center run by a local government.
Enhance understanding among employees that we support greater work-family balance in child-raising.	Produce and distribute our guidebook pertaining to our child-raising and related systems, etc.

■Recruiting across Countries

Anritsu Corp. and Group Companies in Japan promote recruitment regardless of nationality by such means as participating in recruiting fairs held by universities overseas and employing international students in Japan. As of December 2008, 27 Anritsu Group employees working at our facilities in Japan are from abroad.

Column Toward better communication in the company

My duties include overseas assignment procedures and recruitment, training and daily support for foreigners in Japan. Anritsu Group in Japan actively employs foreigners. I believe it is important to create an environment in which they can focus on their work and demonstrate good results as soon as possible after joining the company. They feel their jobs are worthwhile and that they are growing through their work only after understanding the rules of the company, maintaining good communication with their supervisors and coworkers, and establishing their role as team members. To these ends, we began by translating into English and distributing the basic rules of the company including working regulations.
While those of us who accept foreign coworkers should be considerate by speaking slowly, choosing simple words or using simple sentences, for example, we should not treat them too specially. I myself do not do this very well, but I would like us to learn to balance these two considerations to create an organization that is not overly conscious of nationality.

Column Workplace environment that helps realize growth

I joined Anritsu one-and-a-half years ago after graduating from a university in the Philippines. I am now working as a member of a team of ten on the design of FPGA, a programmable large-scale integral circuit and developing product that responds to LTE, the new system for mobile phones. I became interested in Anritsu, thinking it must have high-level technologies, and expected I could grow here. Only a few companies with sophisticated technologies in measuring instruments are located in the Philippines. Now working in Japan, I feel my skill level has improved and I have grown as a professional.
Communication in Japanese is difficult, but everyone is willing to teach me in the workplace, and I am treated kindly on a daily basis. After working at Anritsu for a year and a half, I have learned that Filipinos can respond to sophisticated technology as well as the Japanese. What I expect from Anritsu: To further deepen the company's relationship with the Philippines and to provide skilled and motivated human resources from there with many opportunities to demonstrate their abilities. I would like more people to come from the Philippines to work with me.

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