Strengthen and Enforce Gender Disclosure Requirements

委員会:
Sustainability & Social Responsibility
進捗:
新規
作成日:
Japan has taken steps to require gender pay gap reporting, but the framework remains weak relative to international standards. While companies with 301 or more employees must disclose their gender pay gap annually, no sanctions apply to non-compliant employers: the only consequence is potential public naming by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. Companies with 100 or fewer employees still have only non-binding disclosure obligations. By contrast, the EU Pay Transparency Directive requires companies to act on gaps, includes joint pay assessments, and provides employees with rights to redress.

提案

  • Introduce mandatory explanatory reporting: companies must not only publish their gender pay gap but explain root causes and commit to time-bound remediation plans
  • Extend full disclosure obligations to companies with fewer than 100 employees, in line with global practice
  • Introduce meaningful penalties for non-compliance, moving beyond public naming
  • Align Japan's framework with the EU Pay Transparency Directive, supporting EBC member companies in applying consistent standards across their Japan operations