Respect for Human Rights
Governance Framework

With the establishment of the Policy, we reorganized our Human Rights Awareness Committee, the primary goal of which has been to resolve/prevent issues such as discrimination, and accordingly set up the TEPCO Holdings (TEPCO HD) Human Rights Committee (“HD Human Rights Committee”) in February 2022. Because of the broad scope of human rights issues, we expanded its membership to include the heads of our procurement, ESG, safety, and system security organizations.
The HD Human Rights Committee, chaired by the Chief Human Resources Officer (“Human Rights Chairperson”), chiefly consists of TEPCO HD’s relevant department/office managers and human rights directors of TEPCO Power Grid, TEPCO Renewable Power, and TEPCO Energy Partner (these three are the “core companies”). Each core company has its own human rights committee, and the committee chairs also serve as members of the HD Human Rights Committee.

As a general rule, the HD Human Rights Committee meets twice a year to engage in such activities as reviewing efforts from the previous fiscal year, deliberating plans for the current fiscal year, and monitoring the action plan for human rights due diligence (“human rights DD”).
The Committee also shares specific cases submitted to our Human Rights Reporting Desk and Human Rights Consultation Desk and discusses and recommends remedial measures.

Items reviewed/decided upon by the HD Human Rights Committee are reported to the Executive Committee and other bodies, if necessary. (A report on actions taken after the Policy’s establishment up through FY2022 was made to the Board of Directors on April 28, 2023.)

System of human rights governance

• PG: TEPCO Power Grid, Inc.
• RP: TEPCO Renewable Power, Inc
• EP: TEPCO Energy Partner, Inc

• Note: 

  Coverage includes consolidated subsidiaries of the core companies

Here are the details on past HD Human Rights Committee sessions.

Provided below are the recommendations/remedial measures based on discussions from previous HD Human Rights Committee sessions.

• For stronger governance, we recommended responsible divisions to make human rights grievance systems better recognizable and widely known to employees.
• Reflecting opinions from visually impaired individuals, we made an organization-wide recommendation about how to communicate information that many employees view in particular (e.g., organization chiefs’ messages on the intranet).
• Reflecting grievances filed by contract staff, we communicated about thoroughly practicing the contract management manual.
• In response to stakeholder feedback suggesting that a consolidated subsidiary’s product leaflet could be perceived as discriminatory by some recipients, we replaced a problematic photo in the leaflet when it was updated, and held a training on the content in question.

Reference

• TEPCO Group Corporate Ethics Committee (Japanese)