Communication with Employees

Basic Approach

FANUC recognizes that each employee's individuality, as well as the comprehensive capabilities of our employees constitute the source of FANUC's growth and competitiveness. Accordingly, we believe that it is extremely vital to conduct bidirectional communication, that genuinely conveys the Company's status, policies, and expectations to our employees, while also receiving input from them.
In order to enhance communication, FANUC engages in indirect communication via the labor union, as well as direct communication.

Initiatives

Communication via the Labor Union

FANUC maintains sound labor-management relationships through regular exchanges of views between management and the FANUC labor union on a regular basis each year as follows:
FANUC labor union is currently under the Japanese Electrical Electronic & Information Union (“JEIU”).

1. Production Council (four meetings per year)
   The Council explains the Company's production status, hiring plans, work hours, and other short-term conditions to the labor union, and receives requests from the labor union.
2. Spring labor-management negotiations (five times from February to March)
   Spring negotiations are held to share the Company’s business condition and determine the working conditions based on a labor-management agreement.
3. Regular labor-management meeting (once per month)
   A forum is provided for sharing and resolving daily occupational, health and safety issues.
4. Labor-Management Overtime Management Committee (once per month)
   The Committee shares the actual situations and issues regarding work hours for objectives such as work style reforms, promotion of health, and work-life balance, and discusses directions for resolving these issues.
5. Labor-management secretariat meetings (as needed)
   At the meeting, labor and management share issues related to working conditions and legal reforms and discuss potential solutions.

Direct Communication between the Company and Employees

1. When announcing financial results, we send a message to our employees regarding the Company's business performance and the associated background, deepening their understanding of the Company’s conditions as we strive to foster a sense of unity with employees.
2. Top management sends messages directly to our employees at each milestone, such as when they join the company, promoted to executive employee, or posted overseas, explaining the FANUC's basic principles and management policies and expectations for employees, leading to increased pride and engagement in the FANUC and their work.