Only 2.9 percent of employees at companies with more than 30 workers have applied to reduce their work hours for childcare reasons in the past year, according to a Ministry of Labor survey.
Under the law, employees at companies with 30 or more employees who are caring for children under the age of three can request a one-hour reduction in their daily work hours without pay, or apply for an adjustment of work hours. Employees at smaller companies can negotiate similar arrangements with their employers.
The survey found that 81.4 percent of companies said they would allow hour-reduction requests, with approved reductions averaging 1.1 hours per day.
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Among companies that allowed employees to reduce their work hours, 90.1 percent did not provide pay for the reduced hour, while 5.8 percent offered full pay and 4 percent provided partial pay.
If the law required employers to pay wages for the reduced hour, 25.8 percent of companies said they would still buy in.
Companies that rejected requests cited the availability of alternative leave options (76.2 percent), staffing constraints (20.5 percent), and the nature of their business operations (11.1 percent).
The ministry conducted the survey in autumn last year, collecting responses from 3,243 employers and 6,920 employees.
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