ESG
Social Responsibility
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
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.
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 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:
Pension system | Old system | New system |
Applicable law | Labor Standards Act | Labor Pension Act |
Method of allocation | Appropriate 6% of an employee’s total monthly salary and deposit it into a special account of the Bank of Taiwan. | 6% will be allocated to the individual account at the Labor Insurance Bureau in accordance with the employee’s insurance level. |
Allocation amounts | A total of NT$19,480 thousand was allocated in 2023. |
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.
