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Social Responsibility

To create friendly workplace, to expedite employee welfare

Employees are the most treasure important capital for the company. Not only does uPI provide a people-oriented management environment, but we also do our best in talent recruitment and retention, we have devoted to establish the complete compensation & benefits and welfares for our employees. uPI matured sturdily in Hsinchu and we have to attribute that success to the assistance of all our colleagues and society. For the past decade, we have upheld the belief of people-orientation, seeking to take care of our employees, taking care of the environment, and giving back to society as our mission. We commit to adhere to international regulations and do business honestly to practice our promises and responsibilities towards employees, investors, the environment, and society.

Talent Recruitment

As an outstanding enterprise on the path towards sustainable operations, uPI has developed a forward-looking global recruitment policy, focusing on our core business, new business and key positions with respect to our medium- and long-term corporate strategies. In order to implement the concept of social inclusion and growth, we share training resources with the outside, and conduct industry-university cooperation with schools. We provide opportunities for learning by doing through project cooperation, and expand the level of influence from a short distance, fulfilling the corporate sustainable responsibilities.
• Fair employment: equal opportunity, non-discrimination
• Multi-cultural combination: different countries, cross-field team work
• Cross-generation combination: Inter-generational inclusion and mentoring
• Industry-academia collaboration: combination of school resource, shorten the gap between industry & academia, and open up talent recruitment channels.

Talent Development

A complete talent training and development plan is always the core value of uPI. We pay attention to the growth and training of employees, not only providing high-quality and diversified training opportunities, but also strengthening the professional fields of continuous employment. uPI has formulated a career development blueprint to improve technology, leadership, and execution according to the needs of employees and internal resources. uPI is well aware that training development is the basis for sustainable development of an enterprise. It increases training budget and resources year by year, broadens learning channels for employees, and provides the best learning environment for employees.

Training Program

NewComer orientation.
Management Training.
Professional Training.
Various lectures.

Career Development

dual-track system of management/technical positions.
cross-product & department project experience.
performance-oriented promotion and development.

Training Resource

Inter/external training.
knowledge management system.
internal lecturer.
e-learning platform.

Human Rights Policy

To ensure the basic human rights of employees and stakeholders, uPI follows the human rights protection principles of the International Human Rights Act, Gender Equality Act and Occupational Accident Protection Act, to fulfill corporate social responsibility. Ours’ human rights policy statement is hereby disclosed as follows:

To provide a safe and healthy workplace

The company has a breastfeeding room for the use of maternal colleagues in the company, and regularly dispatches nursing staff and doctors to handle on-site labor health services and health consultation.
The company cooperates with the management center of the park to conduct fire-fighting equipment inspections every year, and timely update and improve the damaged or non-compliant equipment to ensure that the fire-fighting equipment is always normal and safe.
Regularly implement safety and health education and training, fire training and emergency response drills to enhance the professional knowledge of company colleagues in work safety, health and personal safety.
The company conducts an annual inspection of the operating environment to monitor heavy metals and volatile organic compounds in the laboratory to prevent the company’s colleagues from being harmed by physical hazards and provide a good operating environment.
The company provides on-the-job colleagues with health checkups every year in order to exceed the provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health Law, and contracted cooperative hospitals send doctors to the factory to provide consultation on the results of the health checkups.
The company cares about the health of every employee, and specially hires occupational nurses and doctors to provide regular on-site health services, implement workplace maternal protection, abnormal workload, human-induced hazards, and prevention of physical and mental violations, and provide health education, health abnormality tracking and Improvement suggestions to protect the health of colleagues.

Child labor is strictly prohibited

In accordance with the safety, health and labor related laws and regulations, no child labor under the age of 16 shall be employed, and young people over the age of 16 but under the age of 18 shall not be allowed to engage in dangerous or harmful work. Inspections shall be carried out during recruitment to prevent omissions.

Eliminate Employment Discrimination and Ensure Equal Job Opportunities

The company shall not use any form of slavery or coercion to force employees to perform involuntary labor.

Employee Welfares

Labor-management harmony:

to broaden the communication between the top management team & employees, and improve the operational efficiency.

In order to strengthen employee care and interaction, we complete 14 general manager forums (skip-level meeting) before the end of the year
In order to optimize and improve the management system and operation efficiency, we make an anonymous survey to evaluate the employees’ engagement.
For improving health awareness, we provide the blood pressure machine and hold several health lectures.

Welfares:

we provide a work-life balanced environment that employees can enjoy their career in uPI.

Encourage colleagues to balance their work and life, provide employee travel plans and allowances.
Provide birthday gift, festivals gift, childbirth and wedding celebration; funeral subsidies, movie tickets and discount vouchers, etc.
Free drinks, coffee are provided, to begin a wonderful day.
A comfortable staff lounge for employees with leisure books, newspapers and magazines to provide a quiet resting space.
Provide staff meal subsidies every quarter to gather the solidarity of colleagues.
Hold annual family day, year-end celebrations, etc., to appreciate the contributions and hard work of colleagues.
Set up children’s play area and breastfeeding room, so that the company can be a strong backing for colleagues.

Medical and Retirement Planning:

uPI abides by government regulations, all colleagues are insured for labor and health group insurance. Besides, uPI provides free group insurance for family members.
Free annual health checks for all employees.
In accordance with the Labor Pension Act, the company allocates 6% of salary to the employee’s personal pension account every month.

Anti-Corruption Policy

Integrity is the foundation of business management and the core value of the enterprise. Corruption and any form of fraud are absolutely not allowed. The “Code of Integrity Management” and other norms are used as the basis for conduct, requiring directors, supervisors, managers, employees and suppliers not to participate in any corruption or bribery.

uPI is responsible for the formulation and implementation of integrity management policies and prevention plans, and set up appropriate reporting channels for use by internal and external personnel of the company, and keep confidential and protect the identity and content of the whistleblower.

Reporting Mechanism

An open communication channel is available for all stakeholders to express their opinions or complaints on matters related to corporate social responsibility. Allow employees to submit feedback or complaints through the company suggestion box or other internal communication channels. Suggested Mailbox:er_box@upi-semi.com 、contact.lid@upi-semi.com

Complaint Handling Mechanism

The procedure begins when a complaint is preliminarily accepted by our ad hoc complaint handling team. These alleged cases will then be passed on to relevant departments for further investigation. After a case is proven to be true, a special committee would be assembled to deliberate and decide on the case. The imposition of disciplinary measures, recovery of improper advantages, or prosecution of criminal liabilities are contingent on the severity of the respective cases. While making efforts to strengthen the company’s management process and internal control procedures, the instances of misconduct can be used as a warning and reminder to all employees to proactively prevent unlawful incidents from happening again.

Moral Principles

The company conducts all business activities in good faith, fairness, compliance with laws and regulations, and compliance with business ethics. It is strictly forbidden for employees to bribe, corrupt, accept or give gifts, and entertainment that do not conform to business etiquette to suppliers, customers, and stakeholders. Strict protection in confidential information, assets and intellectual property rights of the Company, customers and suppliers.

Note: We adhere to integrity management, prohibit any form of improper behavior, and establish a confidentiality mechanism for whistleblower.
We provide channels for complaints if illegal activities are found. We will conduct inspections with high standards and protect whistleblowers. At the same time, the contents and results of investigations will be kept strictly confidential to ensure that the rights and interests of relevant personnel will not be damaged.

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