Initiatives for Human Rights

System for Human Rights Promotion

The Resona Group established the Human Rights Promotion Committee under the Group Sustainability Promotion Committee to raise awareness of human rights among all employees as a critical management issue. The Human Rights Promotion Committee conducts comprehensive reviews on topics such as human rights policy, domestic and global trends in human rights, and human rights issues at each Group company, and determines the basic policy on promotion of human rights, including training topics, for each fiscal year.
The Audit Committee member in charge of investigations (director) attends meetings of the committee.

In promoting human rights awareness activities, such as training, we have established a human rights awareness promotion system for each subsidiary, with a human rights awareness promoters assigned at each level of organization (head of organization) to carry out customized activities.

Examples of System for Human Rights Promotion Initiatives

The Resona Group is striving to ensure that all its employees develop a keen awareness of human rights while accurately understanding the concepts stipulated in the Group Human Rights Policy. To this end, the Group implements training aimed at imparting the knowledge of human rights, solicits human rights slogans from employees, and otherwise helps them to be well-versed in human rights-related issues.

Workplace Training

At group-affiliated banks, we are fostering a corporate culture of respect for human rights through annual training for all employees.

Effective period	Training topic	Participants
FY 2024	Considering the “Dowa Problem” (discrimination against Buraku) Gaining a deeper understanding of the Act for Eliminating Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities, etc.	23,475
FY2023	Understanding human rights due diligence Understanding the Revised Act for the Elimination of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities	23,161
FY2022	Understanding the Group’s revised human rights policy	23,515

*Participants: All employees, including partner employees, present in the workforce at the time of training

Human Rights Awareness Promoter Training (Training for Division and Branch General Managers)

Human rights training, including trends in human rights issues, is provided annually for human rights awareness promoters (division and branch general managers), who are human rights leaders in their respective workplaces.

Segment-Specific Training

We cover the concept of respect for human rights and knowledge of various human rights according to job level during new employee orientation and training for newly promoted managers.

Hiring Personnel Training

To ensure fair recruitment and hiring, every year we hold training for hiring personnel on fair selection criteria and methods along with various human rights knowledge.

Announcement of Human Rights Policy

We will do the following to ensure thorough dissemination of the Group's human rights policy to all employees.

1.Distribute messages from top management on human rights policy at workplace training targeting all employees.
2.Conducting training on human rights policy through e-learning, etc. for all employees.
3.Discuss human rights policy at segment-specific training, including new employee orientation and training for newly promoted managers.

Distribution of Human Rights Newsletter

Targeting all Group employees, we distribute “human rights newsletters” via the intranet. These publications feature easy-to-understand commentaries on various human rights-related topics that encourage readers to think about human rights.

Human Rights Awareness Slogan

We solicit and award human rights awareness slogans proposed by employees within the Group.

Initiatives to Foster Understanding of the LGBTQ Community

The Resona Group is working to foster workplaces and communities where people of all backgrounds, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identification, can thrive at work and in life.

As part of this effort, we continue to conduct annual awareness training for all employees on respect for human rights of the LGBTQ community.

In addition, as part of the Resona Group's social contribution activities, we encourage employees to participate in external events such as the Rainbow Parade, and we are also recruiting employees who are declared ALLY to affix ALLY stickers to their business attire.

Initiatives on Human Rights for Employees

Consideration toward the Labor Environment

The relationships of the Resona Group with its employees and labor unions are stable.

Negotiations as well as discussions are held periodically regarding maintaining workplaces where employees find it easy to work, wages, labor conditions (including welfare benefits), and other matters.

Addressing All Forms of Harassment

To make the workplace comfortable and free of harassment, the Resona Group Action Principle, Resona Group Human Rights Policy, and Employment Regulations prohibit verbal and physical harassment along with all forms of discrimination.

We established Harassment Prevention Guidelines and Harassment Prevention Manual, which are made known to all employees.

To raise awareness, we conduct e-learning as part of our training for all employees, as well as training for department leaders and newly promoted managers on harassment using case studies and handling procedures for harassment reports. Furthermore, every quarter we send out “Harassment Correspondence” to all employees. We also conduct read-throughs of “The Don'ts,” which outlines undesirable behaviors, at each workplace, as part of our ongoing efforts to raise awareness toward prevention.

Additionally, from the perspective of creating a work environment where each employee can work in good physical and mental health, we have established the Resona Group Customer Harassment Response Policy and set forth the Customer Harassment Prevention Guidelines and Customer Harassment Response Manual to define our internal system and response methods.

We also have set up a harassment hotline. The details of these consultations are strictly handled as confidential.

Through these efforts, we are committed to fostering an open and positive work environment.