Regarding our basic approaches to human rights, we specified respect for human rights and the prohibition of discrimination in the Sumitomo Wiring Systems Group Compliance Manual published in February 2005, and we make these human rights known to our employees through various training seminars.
We manage business and create a work environment with respect for human rights and with no unjust discrimination based on nationality, race, ideology, sex, age, social status, disabilities or other factors.
We have also prepared a system to promptly collect information on issues related to sexual harassment, power harassment and human rights, and handle them appropriately by establishing internal and external contacts for compliance reporting.

Our human resource policy on our employees is "Developing Diverse Human Resources." To realize permanent growth of our global business, we need to actively recruit diverse human resources such as overseas students, mid-career workers and retired workers. Regarding employment of students from overseas, we have been recruiting them in full swing since 2004, and more than 100 students from overseas have been employed until now. Furthermore, we are aggressively employing the physically or mentally challenged and are improving their work environment as an initiative to fulfill our social responsibility.

Our previous policy was to proactively hire temporary employees. However, this policy was reviewed in 2010 to promote regular employment from the standpoint of compliance enhancement, more specifically to accumulate expertise to cope with increasingly complex operations, continuously improve operations, and comply with the Worker Dispatching Act etc. In addition to enforcing ‘short-term contract’ employment, instead of ‘temporary’ employment, regular employment tests are periodically conducted for temporary and contract employees to give them an opportunity to become regular employees.