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Petit Cherry (AIST Tsukuba)Little Oak (AIST Chubu)Petit Cherry (AIST Kansai)Private child day care and babysitting servicesStaffContract Staff819251781576222810Number of users: short-term child day care facilities (FY2011)Parental leave for child sicknessSpecial parental leaveParental absenceNursing care leaveNursing care absence972923601591359232Number of users: leave and absence programs (FY2011)MaleFemaleWorkplace Environment ActivitiesSupport for Child Care and Nursing CareAIST provides support programs for child care and nursing care in order to help the work life balance of employees. At AIST, flexible working styles are available such as a flex-time system, a discretionary work system, and a short-time work system for pre-school child care. Also, various leave and absence programs are available for child and nursing care. On the intranet, we have “Child and Nursing Care Plaza” to provide such information, and operate a bulletin board for exchange of information and opinion. As a result of our efforts to improve the work environment, there are no women researchers who have left AIST for reasons of birthing or child-raising since the establishment of AIST in 2001.At three research bases of AIST, there are day care facilities for children where parents can temporarily leave their children. At other bases without such facilities, AIST provides private child day care or babysitting services for the employees.With the aging population, nursing care becomes increasingly important to both the institute and its employees. Since 2007, AIST has organized nursing care seminars to support the balance of career and nursing care. In order to make the seminars useful, we conducted a questionnaire survey on the employees’ current situation and concerns on nursing care, and reflected the results in the discussions at the seminars. In FY2011, the focus was placed on long-distance nursing care and the nursing care insurance.●Users’ comments●My child often gets sick on the day when I have important work to do. Petit Cherry helped me a number of times in such emergencies. He has a nice time there, so he often says, ‘I want to go to Petit Cherry today, too!’ and makes me smile.● “The child care services always provides a cozy and homelike atmosphere to all ages from one-year-old infants up to upper elementary school children. My child is cared for on the premises of my workplace, a very familiar environment for me, so I do not have to worry about my child while working.”Scene from the nursing care seminar32|Labor PracticesLabor Practices

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