Nagasaki University's Support System for Long-Term Care
【Definition of “Person Requiring Long-Term Care”】
One of the following persons in the family of a university staff member where the person has been suffering impediments to daily life for a period or two (2) weeks or longer: spouse of the staff member, parent of either the staff member or the staff member’s spouse, child of the staff
member, grandparent/grandchild/sibling, etc., who is residing with the staff member.
Nagasaki University’s conditions for recognition as a “Person Requiring Long-term Care” are less strict than those for Condition of “Need for Long-Term Care” and “Eligible Families” as prescribed under the Child Care and Family Care Leave Act.
Support System

Outline of System

Full-time staff

Paid/Unpaid

Part-time staff

Paid/Unpaid

Remarks

Working Hours

Early / Late offece
attendance

System under which staff who are caring for a person
requiring long-term care can change the hours they come The time staff begin / end work can be set from after
to/leave work without changing their prescribed daily
7:00 and up until 22:00, respectivelyworking hours.

―Same as for full-time staff (Part-timerstaff are not eligible)―

Regulations Regarding Staff Working Hours, Days
Off, and Holidays, Etc. (Hereinafter referred to as“Regulations Regarding Working Hours”) Article 6-3(Part-time)
Full-timer Employment Regulations Article 36
Part-timer Employment Regulations Article 33

Restricions on overtimework

System that limits the number of overtime hours ifworkers caring for a person requiring long-term carerequest restrictions on overtime work for the purpose ofproviding long-term care.

―Same as for full-time staff―

Regulations Regarding Working Hours Article 15-4

Restrictions onunscheduled work

System that limits unscheduled work if staff members
providing long-term care request it for the purpose ofproviding long-term care, unless it hinders work
operations.

―(Full-time)
Regulations Regarding Working Hours Article 15-2
(Part-time)
Full-timer Employment Regulations Article 36
Part-timer Employment Regulations Article 33

Time for providing longterm care

System that approves shortened work hours when not
Work shortened by up to two hours per day (for threeworking in order to provide long-term care is approved asyears from the start of shortened work hours)
appropriate.

UnpaidRegulations Regarding Working Hours Articles 34-36(Part-time)
Full-timer Employment Regulations Article 36
Part-timer Employment Regulations Article 33

Unpaid(Full-time)
Regulations Regarding Working Hours Article 26(Part-time)
Full-timer:Employment Regulations Article 22Part-timer:Employment Regulations Article 21

Even in the case that the worker is required to workovertime, overtime work is limited to 24 hours permonth / 150 hours per year.

Limits overtime work until there is no longer any needfor long-term care.

Five days per year (10 days per year in the case of
two or more persons requiring long-term care.Oneday or one-minute units.)

Leaves System

Long-Term Care Leave to System granting leave to staff members to enable themcare for a person requiring to provide long-term care for a person requiring long-termlong-term carecare.
No more than three times within a total period of six
months for each continuous condition needing longterm care for the person requiring long-term care.
One day, or within four consecutive hours from thetime the full-time staff member either starts orfinishes work.

Family Care Leave

Family Care Leave(Nagasaki University does not have a system of
System granting leave to staff members to enable them Family Care Leave, but the above-mentioned Longto provide long-term care for a person requiring long-term Term Care Leave system has been established as acaresystem similar to the Family Care Leave prescribedunder the Child Care and Family Care Leave Act)―Same as for full-time staff

UnpaidSame as full-time staff only for full-timer staff

Paid(Special Leave)

Five days per year (10 days per yearin the case of two or more persons
requiring long-term care.One-day or
one-minute units.)

UnpaidNo more than three times within a total
Unpaid(Full-time)(Maximum of three period of 93 days for each continuous (Maximum of three
Regulations Regarding Working Hours form Articles
months of Long-Term condition needing long-term care for months of Long-Term
28 to 33
Care Leave
the person requiring long-term care.
Care Leave(Part-time)
Allowance paid from One day, or within four consecutive
Allowance paid from
Full-timer:Employment Regulations Article 36
employment
hours from the time the part-time staff
employment
Part-timer:Employment Regulations Article 33
insurance available) member either starts or finishes work. insurance available)―(Nagasaki University does not have asystem of Family Care Leave, but theabove-mentioned Long-Term Care
Leave system has been established
as a system similar to the Family Care
Leave prescribed under the Child Careand Family Care Leave Act)Note:
・ Depending on their work style, it may not be possible for staff members to utilize these systems.
・ With regard to the payment of a family care allowance from employment insurance, payment may not be possible without the staff member taking leave fulfilling various requirements.
・ If you wish to utilize any of these systems, please contact the personnel officer in your faculty or department.

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1-Jan-17