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Brother

Company size: 25,000

Key product/service items: Brother produces sewing machines, printers, fax machines, and other office electronics.

Accessibility Web site overview: Brother's Web site overviews the company's policies concerning the employment of persons with disabilities, including employment rates and benefits.

Key statements on ICT product and services accessibility: The Brother group is advancing employment of persons with disabilities, implementing unique measures in each country and region. In Germany, France and Japan a statutory rate is decided for companies to observe. China does not have a nation-level regulation, yet some autonomous bodies have cooperative subsidy systems targeted to forward employment of people with disabilities.
In fiscal 2006, ended March 2006, the Brother group sites in Europe, the U.S., and Japan have employed persons with disabilities without interruption. Employment rate of people with disabilities was 1.95% in fiscal 2006 at BIL. This figure exceeds the rate required by the law.

Key areas of accessibility work: In 2006, the employment rate of persons with disabilities at Brother was 1.95%
Company accessibility Web site: http://www.brother.com/ , http://www.brother.com/en/csr/employees/employment/index.htm

Contact information:
Nagoya, Japan Headquarters
+1 81-52-824-2511