Nagasaki University’s Support System for Childbirth and Child-Rearing
For mothers
For fathers
For both parents

Support System

Working Hours

Early/late officeattendance

Restrictions on
overtime work

Outline of System

Full-time staff

System under which staff members who are rearing
preschool-age children, need to pick up school-age The time full-time staff
children from after-school clubs, or are providing members begin/end
long-term care for their spouse, a parent, or child work can be set fromafter 7:00 and up until
can change the hours they come to/leave workwithout changing their prescribed working hours. 22:00, respectively.

System that ensures that staff members rearing achild under the age of 3 or providing long-termcare for a person requiring long-term care cannot
be required to work hours over their prescribedworking hours if they request to be exemptedfrom overtime work for the purpose of childrearing or long-term care.

Full-time staff members
cannot be required toperform overtime work

System that limits the number of overtime hours Even in the case that thethat staff members rearing a preschool-age child or full-time staff member
providing long-term care for a person requiring is required to work
long-term care cannot be required to work if they overtime, overtime
work is limited to 24
request restrictions on overtime work
hours per month/150
hours per year.
System that limits the hours between 22:00 andRestrictions on late- 5:00 that staff members rearing a preschool-age Full-time staff memberschild or providing long-term care for a person cannot be required tonight workrequiring long-term care cannot be required to work perform late-night work
if they request restrictions on late-night work for thepurpose of child-rearing or long-term care.

Paid/ Unpaid

Part-time staff

Paid/
UnpaidRemarks
Regulations Regarding
Staff Working Hours,Days Off, and Holidays,Etc. (Hereinafter referredto as “Regulations
Regarding Working
Hours”) Article 6-2

N/A

None

N/A

N/A

Same as for fulltime staff

N/A

Regulations Regarding
Working Hours Article
15-2

N/A

Same as for fulltime staff* With exceptions

N/A

Regulations Regarding
Working Hours Article
15-3

N/A

Same as for fulltime staff* With exceptions

N/A

Regulations Regarding
Working Hours Article
15-4

Leave System

Fertility treatment
leave

Five days per academicyear (10 days peracademic year in the case
Leave granted to a staff member for regular hospitalthat the hospital visits are
visits to undergo fertility treatment.
to undergo in vitro
fertilization ormicroinsemination)

Paid

Five days between
April 1 and March 31of the following year
(hereinafter “peracademic year”) (10days per academic
year in the case thatthe hospital visits areto undergo in vitro
fertilization ormicroinsemination)* With exceptions

Prenatal leave

Leave granted to a female staff member due togive birth within the next 6 weeks (14 weeks for
multiple pregnancies) if they request leave

Period requested prior tochildbirth

Paid

Same as for full-time
staff

Paid

Same as above

Period of 8 weeks fromthe day after the birth

Paid

Same as for full-time
staff

Paid

Same as above

Paid

Same as for fulltime staff* With exceptions

UnpaidSame as above

Postnatal leave

Leave granted to a female staff member who hasgiven birthChild-rearing time

Leave granted to a female staff member rearing achild under 1 year of age for the purpose ofbreastfeeding, etc.

Leave for spouse to Leave granted to a father for the birth of a child.
give birthPaternity childcare
leave

Sick/injured childcare leave

Two periods of leave
per day; each period 30
minutes or lessTwo days from the day thechildbearing spouse isadmitted to the hospital to
two weeks after the birthof the child

Leave granted to a staff member during the period
their spouse is on prenatal or postnatal leave to care Five days within thefor the child that has been born or preschool-age prescribed period
siblings.

Five days per year (10Leave granted to staff members caring for adays per year in the casesick/injured preschool-age child (including taking of two or morechildren to the doctor for vaccinations and medicalpreschool-age children)
check-ups).

Child-Rearing Leave System

System that enables staff members to obtain ChildChild-rearing leave Rearing Leave for the purpose of caring for a child Until the child turns 3
under the age of 3 by submitting a request to theyears of age
University President, regardless of whether or not
the staff member’s spouse is on Child-Rearing
Leave.

PaidSame as for fulltime staff* With exceptions

Paid

N/APaid

Same as for fulltime staff* With exceptions

N/A

Paid

Five days per
academic year (10days per academicyear in the case oftwo or morepreschool-agechildren)* With exceptions

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

Same as above

Same as above

Same as above(Full-time)
Regulations Regarding
Staff Child-Rearing
Leave, Etc. (HereinafterUnpaid
referred to as “Full-time(ChildStaff Child-Rearing Leave
Until the child turns 1 Unpaid
RearingRegulations”) Article 3
year of age (or 2Leave(Sameas(Part-time)years, depending onRegulations Regarding
allowance
for fullthe circumstances)paid fromtime staff) Child-Rearing Leave etc.
* With exceptions
for Full-timers and Partemploymenttimers (Hereinafterinsurance)
referred to as “Part-timeStaff Child-Rearing Leave
Regulations”)
Articles 4, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4

System that enable staff members to obtain childUnpaid
rearing leave for a period of up to 4 weeks within 8(Childweeks of the birth of their child by submitting aRearing
Child-rearing leave
request to the University President. (As the mother Period of up to 4 weeks
for when spouse
Leave
is on postnatal leave during this time period, the within 8 weeks of the birth
gives birthallowancesystem mainly applies to male staff members; of the child*Mainly for fathers
paid fromhowever, female staff members may also obtain
employment
leave under this system in the case of adoption.)insurance)

Same as for fulltime staff* With exceptions(Full-time)
Full-time Staff ChildRearing Leave
Unpaid(Same as Regulations Articles 10-2through 10-6 (Part-time)for fullPart-time Staff Childtime staff) Rearing Leave
Regulations Articles 9-2
through 9-6

System that enables staff members to not work
Partial child-rearing (reduce their working hours) for the purpose ofleave
caring for a preschool-age child by submitting arequest to the University President.

System for Exempting Staff from their Dutyof Devotion to Service

Measures regarding
System that exempts staff members who arehealth management pregnant from their duty of devotion to service
during pregnancy for the time they are undergoing healthand after childbirth examinations.

Measures foreasing the burdenof commuting
during pregnancy

Two hours at either thebeginning or end of the
full-time staff member’sprescribed working hours
up until the child starts
elementary school

For the purpose ofundergoing healthguidance andexaminations inaccordance with
Maternal and Child
Health Act regulations

System that exempts staff members who are
The period of time it has
pregnant and have been instructed by their
been recognized the fullphysician to ease the burden of commuting totime staff member will
work from their duty of devotion to service for the not work in order to easetime they have been instructed to ease their
their burden ofcommuting burden. Methods of easing theircommuting
commuting burden may include traveling at times
when transportation is less crowded and shortening
working hours.

UnpaidPaid

Paid

Two hours at either
the beginning or endof the part-time staff
member’s prescribedworking hours up
until the child turns 3.
* With exceptions

UnpaidSame as for fulltime staff

Paid

Same as for full-time
staff

Paid(Full-time)
Full-time Staff ChildRearing Leave
Regulations Article 12(Part-time)Part-time Staff ChildRearing Leave
Regulations Article 13
Staff Employment
Regulations Article 32

Same as above