Human Rights Policy

The Company comprehensively considers relevant international standards including the Social Accountability 8000, Code of Conduct – Responsible Business Alliance (RBA), and United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In relevant provisions of the Sustainable Development Best Practice Principles governing the application of human resources, human resources utilization policies are standardized without discriminatory treatment based on gender, race, age, marital status, and so on, ensuring fair and equitable remuneration, benefits, assessment, promotions, and other opportunities. In addition, “Measures for Prevention, Correction, Complaint and Punishment of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace” have been specifically established to ensure that the working environment is safe, employees’ rights and interests are protected and respected, pollution prevention is implemented, and social responsibilities are fulfilled.

The Human Rights Policy and Specific Management Plan are as below:

Ensuring Employee Equality and Implementing Sexual Harassment Prevention

• A course on “Human Rights and Sexual Harassment Prevention Advocacy” was held in 2023. Course hours: 0.5 hours per person. A total of 41 new colleagues have completed the training. In the future, we will continue to focus on human rights protection issues and promote relevant internal education and training. Furthermore, we shall provide professional skills training for human resources practitioners to facilitate the implementation of operating procedures and interviewing essentials for stages including sexual harassment complaints, investigation, and resolution. This shall be done to increase awareness of human rights protection and reduce the possibility of related risks.
• In accordance with the Company’s “Measures for Prevention, Correction, Complaint and Punishment of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace”, a sexual harassment complaint handling committee has been established and a sexual harassment complaint mailbox has been set up. Employees can express their rights and opinions through the complaint channel at any time. There were 0 cases of complaints in 2023.

Provided a safe and healthy working environment

• The Company has set up access control measures and monitoring equipment to strictly control the personnel entering and leaving the company. During non-working hours, the access control system is automatically set up and connected to the contracted security company to ensure the personal safety of our employees.
• The Company has assigned full-time cleaning staff to clean the office area daily twice a day, and we commission a professional environmental disinfection company to disinfect the office area once a month to provide a clean, hygienic, and comfortable working environment.
• The Company cooperates with the management center of the campus to conduct an annual inspection of fire-fighting equipment once a year and to renew and improve any damaged or non-compliant equipment in time to ensure that the fire-fighting equipment is always normal and safe.
• The Company implements safety and health education training for new employees once a month, and fire training and emergency response once a year drills to improve the professional knowledge of our employees in work safety and health and personal safety.
• The public area of our company is decorated with cultural and artistic corridors and green plants, and leisure seats are provided for employees to rest and appreciate, enjoy relaxation, and relieve work pressure.
• The Company inspects the operating environment once a year and monitors heavy metals and volatile organic compounds in the laboratory to prevent our employees from being harmed by physical hazards and to provide an excellent operating environment.
• The Company provides annual health checkups once a year for our employees, which are better than the occupational safety and health law, and we have contracted a partner hospital to send doctors to our factory to provide consultation on health checkup results.
• The Company cares about the health of each employee and employs occupational nurses (twice a month) and doctors (once per quarter) to provide regular on-site health services, perform workplace maternity protection, abnormal workload, human-caused hazards and prevention of physical and mental abuse, and provide health education, health abnormality tracking, and improvement suggestions to protect the health of employees.
• The Company set up exclusive parking spaces for pregnant women. Female employees can apply for free parking during pregnancy.

Help employees maintain good health and work-life balance

• Implement flexible working hours and implement a vacation system, providing 7 days of flexible leave per year for employees to use flexibly.

Strictly prohibit the forced labor and child labor

• Complying with local government labor laws and regulations, the Company shall not use any form of slavery or coercion to force employees to perform involuntary labor and prohibit to hire the child labor.

Ensure employees’ rights and opinions are protected and respected

• The Company provides life insurance, health insurance, and sickness and disability insurance for all employees, and offers maternity/parental leave, retirement savings, and so on.
• The Company regularly holds labor–management meetings, and major labor conditions are implemented after the resolution of labor representatives.

Various employee welfare measures, retirement systems of the Company and their implementation status

Excellent professional employees are the most important assets of the Company and harmonious labor relations are the cornerstone of business development. The Company’s labor relations are harmonious and stable, and the Company maintains positive business development. In addition to our commitment to improving employee benefits, remuneration, and the working environment, we simultaneously maintain the smooth flow of labor–management communication channels. Through the joint efforts of all colleagues, moreover, they can fully utilize individual talent so that they can grow together with the company and work together to create a better future.

Employee welfare measures and implementation status

• In accordance with the law, we allow colleagues to enjoy special vacations, allocate pensions, set up an Employee Welfare Committee, coordinate welfare activities, and protect labor rights and interests.
• In addition to participating in labor insurance and national health insurance in accordance with the law, all employees are additionally provided employee group insurance and travel insurance with premiums borne by the Company.
• We conduct regular employee health checks to check the health of employees; and we organize staff activities, tourism activities, and staff afternoon tea breaks from time to time to enrich colleagues’ leisure activities and enhance camaraderie.
• Money or gifts are provided for both the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival.
• Subsidies are provided for marriage, funerals, and childbirth.
• We have set up a nursing room and a children’s U playground, creating a friendly environment that allows employees to balance childcare and work.

Retirement plan and implementation status

In order to stabilize the lives of employees after retirement and improve the service spirit during their employment, the Company allocates pensions in accordance with the provisions of the Labor Standard Act and the Labor Pension Act: