To make it easier to get vaccinated against the new coronavirus, Nippon Life Insurance Co., Ltd. has decided not to treat employees who want to be vaccinated during working hours as absenteeism. I did.
As vaccination goes into full swing, other companies are likely to support the vaccination of employees in the future.
Vaccination of the new coronavirus, which started for medical professionals, will be promoted to the general public following the elderly and people with underlying diseases, but at that time, the vaccination time The issue is how to secure.
Therefore, Nippon Life has decided not to treat the desired employees as "absent" if they receive the vaccination during working hours in order to make it easier for them to receive the vaccination.
It covers all employees, more than 70,000 people, and we want to give them the flexibility to receive vaccinations.
In the United States, some companies make vaccination time "paid", and as vaccination begins in earnest in Japan, it seems that the movement to support employee vaccination will spread among companies.