{"id":75381,"date":"2015-08-07T10:55:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T01:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=64231"},"modified":"2016-04-01T02:44:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:44:25","slug":"local-it-company-aims-to-become-lgbt-friendly","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/local-it-company-aims-to-become-lgbt-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Local IT Company Aims to Become LGBT-Friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fukuoka-based IT consulting company Pencil adopted a new benefit scheme that will provide monetary gifts to employees who marry their same-sex partners. Pencil also enacted a new corporate charter that clearly bans discrimination against sexual minorities. The aim is to create a stress-free workplace for all employees, regardless of sexual orientation. Although similar moves have been taken by foreign companies in Japan, this is a rare case of a local company taking a stand for LGBT rights.  Source: Nishinippon Shimbun 8\/6<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/PencilLGBT.jpg?resize=609%2C353\" alt=\"PencilLGBT\" width=\"609\" height=\"353\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/PencilLGBT.jpg?w=609&amp;ssl=1 609w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/PencilLGBT.jpg?resize=300%2C173&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/notionscapital\/4431253570\" target=\"_blank\">Photo Source<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fukuoka-based IT consulting company Pencil adopted a new benefit scheme that will provide monetary gifts to employees who marry their same-sex partners. Pencil also enacted a new corporate charter that clearly bans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-75381","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-society","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/75381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}