1. To build a trade union where both men and women can play an active role, RENGO will implement the third phase of the Action Plan to Promote Equal Participation by Women and Men. RENGO will also survey efforts made to achieve the two-year targets and carry out a follow-up on the progress toward the action targets.

2. RENGO will actively promote the “2nd Basic Plan for Gender Equality” based on the Basic Law on Gender Equality. RENGO will also promote the use of its manual for enacting local ordinances to promote equal participation by men and women to ensure that the purpose of the Basic Law is not diluted.

3. RENGO will call for revisions to the Civil Law, including the creation of a system in which married couples can choose to keep separate surnames and granting inheritance rights to illegitimate children.

4. RENGO will work to uncover cases of “indirect discrimination,” which is only partially covered by the revised law, and analyze and work to resolve such cases. To this end, RENGO will endeavor to grasp the actual wage distribution (plot chart), and collect and publicize cases of indirect discrimination.

5. Using the “guideline for applying the revised Equal Employment Opportunity Law to the workplace,” RENGO will monitor the implementation of revised provisions, including the abolition of unfair treatment based on pregnancy and childbirth and strengthening measures for preventing sexual harassment. RENGO will also consider conducting follow-up fact-finding surveys.

6. RENGO will designate June as a “month for promoting gender equality,” and carry out activities at the workplace and local levels.

7. RENGO will promote activities to ensure equal wages and working conditions for part-time workers in line with the enforcement of the revised Part-time Labour Law in April 2008.

8. Since the revised Part-time Labour Law will be reviewed three years after its enforcement, RENGO will strive to grasp actual conditions and consider the proper form for equal treatment.

9. RENGO will grasp actual conditions to review the Child Care and Family Care Leave Law and call for the current law to be changed into the “law for supporting work-life balance” that RENGO recommends.

10. RENGO will further work along with ITUC and ITUC-AP. RENGO will also strive to cooperate with NGOs, including the International Women’s Year Liaison Group.

11. RENGO will hold an International Women’s Day rally on March 8 in line with ITUC’s activities.

12. RENGO will hold training seminars for female union leaders and gender equality seminars for male leaders. Local RENGOs will also hold equal participation forums.

13. To abolish discrimination in finding employment, RENGO will conduct a survey of the reality of application and recruitment.