GitLab GK (Japan) Benefits

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Specific to Japan Based Team Members

Team members in Japan have the following statutory state benefits available: medical, pension, and unemployment.

GitLab does not plan on offering additional private medical or pension benefits at this time due to the government cover.

GitLab will continue to review responses from the Global Benefits Survey as well as budgetary availability with respect to adding supplementary benefits in Japan.

Medical

All the Japanese team members will be covered by a statutory benefit known as Social Insurance. This health insurance plan will be managed by the National Health Insurance Association (Zenkoku-Kenkohoken-Kyokai or in short Kyokai Kenpo).

Pension

Team members registered to the Social Insurance are also registered with the Employee Pension system. This system provides a pension to members who have worked in Japan at least 25 years from the age of 60 years old. Pension benefits depend form individual career so there is no standard payments.

Unemployment Insurance

All the Japanese team members are entitled to the government’s unemployment insurance system, known as koyou hoken (unemployment insurance). Koyou hoken, also known as shitsugyou hokken (unemployment benefit), is meant to help members, including foreign members, who have recently been unemployed.
Members enrolling in unemployment insurance must be working at least 20 hours per week, and to expect to be employed for at least 31 days.
Unemployment Insurance covers Unemployment benefits, Childcare Leave Allowance, Nursing Care Leave Allowance and Education/Training Allowance.

Annual Health Check Up

Members covered by the Social general insurance system “Kyokai Kenpo” are entitled to a benefit of an annual health check up in any of the hospitals designated under “Kyokai Kenpo”. The Japanese team members can also have a checkup in a non-designated institution.
In both the cases the team members can expense up to 12000 JPY against the actual bills via Expensify.
- The invoice must be uploaded to Expensify to validate the total remiburseable amount. Please do not upload any personal medican data, only the invoice with the total amount due. If you have any questions or concerns please reach out to Total Rewards.

GitLab GK Leave Policy

Sick Leave

When a person is unable to work because of injury or sickness, the Health Insurance Scheme provides 60% of the standard monthly remuneration (determined on the basis of the insured person's basic monthly salary/wage) as a sickness or injury benefit from the fourth day, for up to 18 months. In the case of the National Health Insurance Scheme, these benefits are voluntary under the law; in practice, however, most National Health Insurance Associations provide such sickness benefits.

Team members must designate any time off for illness as Out Sick in PTO by Roots to ensure that annual sick leave entitlement is properly tracked. In the event that a team member is out sick for greater than three consecutive calendar days, the team member must then follow the process with regard to (Communicating Illness-Related Leave)[https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/paid-time-off/#communicating-illness-related-leave].

Statutory Maternity Leave

The statutory entitlement for maternity leave is 14 weeks. The leave must start 6 weeks prior to the scheduled delivery date. During the entire period of maternity leave, the team member is entitled to 2/3 of her base salary, and is covered by social insurance.

Statutory Parental Leave (Child Care Leave)

The team members are entitled to unpaid leave until their child's first birthday (or second if certain conditions are met).
Child care leave starts from the day after the maternity leave ends (i.e. 8 weeks after the birth date), to the day before the child reaches the age of 1.
If both parents take child care leave, the leave is extended to when the child is 1 year and 2 months old.
During the entire period of child care leave, the team member is entitled to 2/3 of their base salary, and is covered by labor insurance.