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The Japanese government plans to require companies with over 100 employees to set and disclose paternity leave targets from April 2025 to facilitate fathers’ involvement in child-rearing and allow parents to better manage work and family responsibilities, government sources said on Monday.
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare plans to submit a related bill to the ordinary Diet session to implement the measure, covering around 50,000 companies in Japan, the sources said.
The ratio of Japanese men who took paternity leave stood at 17.1 per cent in a financial year 2022 survey, far less than 80.2 per cent among women and far below the…