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| 1. | Outline of the 2006 NPA Remuneration Recommendation | |
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| Please click below for details: (remuneration2006.pdf ) |
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| 2. | Implementation of Mentor Cultivation Training | |
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| Launched in September 2006, the goals of Mentor Cultivation Training
designed by the NPA are to create job-site mentors, providing basic
knowledge and awareness of mentoring and communication skills. The mentoring system is only a recent phenomenon, although in Japan there is a customary system where superiors instruct and support subordinates. Nevertheless, with lifelong employment disappearing and restructuring on the rise, human relations have weakened, drawing attention to this system as a way for private companies to build human relations. |
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| 3. | Notification Regarding Guidelines on the Change-in-status system(demotion and dismissal against an employee’s will) | |
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| On 13 October 2006, the NPA notified the Cabinet Office and each
ministry and agency of its “Guidelines on the change-in-status
system (necessary measures for employee potentially meeting change-in-status
criteria).” The guidelines comprise procedures, important points and other necessary measures for appointing officers to use in typical cases where change-in-status needs to be considered. The guidelines cover standard examples for procedures, important points and other necessary measures for appointing officers to implement, and confirm ideas regarding change-in-status criteria as expressed in judicial precedents. They also provide actual cases which can be considered as appearance of low performance or lack of eligibility, and introduce actual cases of change-in-status as a reference. The expectation is for ministries and agencies referring to these guidelines to implement in accordance with the intent of the change-in-status system and further promote appropriate, efficient operations of official duties. |
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| 4. | Submission of Opinions on the Introduction of the Short-time working system for child care | |
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| Measures for the balancing work and family life are called for to
deal with the rapid decline in the birthrate in Japan. The NPA has
been taking various measures to balance work and family life targeting
health care management of employees, the decline in the birthrate,
and aging society. On August 8, 2006, the NPA submitted opinions
to the Diet and the Cabinet, concerning to amend the Law concerning
Child Care Leave of public servants to introduce the Short-time working
system for child care. The NPA’s submission calls for the introduction of a system under which employees can work 4 hours a day, three days a week, etc. while retaining their full-time position until their children reach grade school age. These employees are required to obtain their appointing officers’ approval for such requests. It is also recommended that the introduction of a system under which their appointing officers should be able to appoint a fixed-term part-time employee who can work 10 to 20 hours a week to compensate for a reductions in work forth, and a system under which two employees who are working 20 hours a week under the short-time position and a full-time employee can be appointed to the position that becomes vacant as a result. Please click below for details: (1opinions2006.pdf) |
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| 5. | Submission of Opinions Concerning the Enactment of the Act on Self-Development Leave | |
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| To respond to complex and advancing government issues,
it is getting necessary to promote wide-range of self-development
activities. In order to achieve this, it is useful to prepare a flexible
system to encourage the spontaneity and independence of personnel. Moreover, from the standpoint of fully encouraging the spontaneity and independence and the furthering of the vitalization of the organization and the personnel’s public sense, it is necessary to prepare for the introduction of a system to support motivated personnel’s international contributory activities. To this end, on August 8, 2006, the NPA submitted its opinions to the Diet and Cabinet on establishing a system for Self-Development Leave. Concretely, the purpose is to create a Self-Development leave system that enable motivated personnel, those who wish voluntarily to be away from work to take an undergraduate, graduate, etc. at University or to contribute to international cooperation by participating in activities of international contribution, while securing their status without need to work and pay. |
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Please click below for details: (2opinions2006.pdf) |
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