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Support for Long-term Care

JAXA's Support System

Paid Care Leave

Care Leave: Five days per year (10 days per year for those who have more than one person requiring long term care)

This Care leave can be taken by employees who have family members certified as in need of care (specifically in a state requiring constant care for more than two weeks because of illness, injury, or physical or mental disabilities), and thus deemed unable to work.

Working Hours

Restrictions to overtime or late-night labor: Available to employees who are caring family members certified as in need of care
  • When an employee who is caring a family member certified as in need of care requests restrictions to overtime labor, the employer cannot order overtime that exceeds four hours per day, 24 hours per month, or 150 hours per year.
  • When an employee who is caring a family member certified as in need of care requests restrictions to late-night (from 10 pm to 5 am) labor, the employer must refrain from ordering late-night labor.
Flex-Time Working System: Available to employees who are caring family members certified as in need of care
  • This system is available to employees who are caring family members certified as in need of care and have not requested an exemption from overtime.
Reduced work time for long-term care (granny leave)
  • For employees to attend to those at home requiring long-term care, we have a system that allows them reduced work time up to 2 hours per day in units of 30 minutes for a continuous period of 3 years for each incident.

Long Term Care Leave (unpaid)

Long term care Leave: Must be taken within a consecutive six-month period.

This leave is available to employees who are nursing family members certified as in need of care.

Supplementary Explanation
  • For each case of long-term care, it is possible to take a leave in units of one day or one hour for a maximum of three (3) times within a six (6)-month period.
  • LTC (Long-term Care) Required" in this case shall mean that it falls into either of the following two conditions:
    (1) Shall fall under Care Level 2 or above defined in the LTC Insurance System
    (2) For the statements (1) through (12), there shall be either 2 or more Care Level 2 or at least 1 Care Level 3. In addition, such condition should be considered as continuous.
  • Items/Condition 1
    (refer to Note 1)    		 2
    (refer to Note 2)    		 3
    (1) Ability to Sit Up (can sit for 10 minutes by oneself) Can be done by oneself Can be done if supported
    (refer to Note 3)    		 Cannot do
    (2) Ability to Walk (can walk approximately 5 meters without stopping or collapsing) Can be done without holding onto something Can be done if holding onto something Cannot do
    (3) Transferability (can transfer from bed to wheelchair, from wheelchair to toilet, etc.) Can be done by oneself Partial support and monitoring necessary Total support required
    (4) Liquid and Dietary Intake (refer to Note 4) Can be done by oneself Partial support and monitoring necessary Total support required
    (5) Excretion Can be done by oneself Partial support and monitoring necessary Total support required
    (6) Putting On and Taking Off Clothes Can be done by oneself Partial support and monitoring necessary Total support required
    (7) Communication Can do Unable to do sometimes Cannot do
    (8) Unable to Return after Going Out None Sometimes Occurs every time
    (9) Sometimes Breaks Things or Rips Clothes None Sometimes Occurs every time
    (refer to Note 5)
    (10) Failing Memory Requires Support of Others None Sometimes Occurs every day
    (11) Taking Medication Can be done by oneself Partial support and monitoring necessary Total support required
    (12) Decision-making for Activities of Daily Living (ADL) (refer to Note 6) Can do Cannot make important decisions about oneself (refer to Note 7) Can hardly do
    • (Note 1) For each item, condition 1, ""Can be done by oneself"" includes using welfare equipment or supporting oneself.
    • (Note 2) For each item, condition 2, ""monitoring"" includes the necessity of constantly ""watching over."" In the case of the elderly with dementia, it means confirming, instructing, and calling out.
    • (Note 3) In item (1) Ability to Sit Up, ""Can be done if supported"" includes the ability to sit up by oneself if there is a back to the chair.
    • (Note 4) In item (4) Liquid and Dietary Intake, ""monitoring"" includes watching over the motions and supporting the appropriate judgment regarding volume (not too little or too much) of intake by calling out.
    • (Note 5) In condition 3 of item (9), ""Breaks Things or Rips Clothes almost daily"" includes harming oneself or others occasionally.
    • (Note 6) In item (12), ""Decision-making in ADL"" means the ability to make decisions in everyday life.
    • (Note 7) Decision-making in familiar ADL includes deciding which TV programs to watch or making selections from the menu of the day, but important decisions that require agreement (such as participating in developing one's care plan or agreeing on future medical treatment) must be guided or supported."

Initiatives

We regularly hold long-term care seminars by specialists for our staff members with the hope that employees who are dealing with long-term care can effectively utilize support systems and services to balance dealing with long-term care and their work, without having to change their current lifestyle as much as possible.

Cases for Work and Elderly/Long-Term Care Balance

Case 1: S (Female), New Projects Promotion Center and Gender Equality Office (Updated August 1, 2014)

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