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4.No discrimination: No discrimination of race, skin color, age, sex, sexual orientation,
race, religion, disability, union, or political preference. All men and women are equal
and are entitled to protection and free of discrimination.
5. Free of inhuman treatment: Harassment and/or physical abuse is prohibited.
6.No forced labor: ASUS products or service will not be provided by forced, restrained,
or involuntary prison workers. All employed workers for ASUS products and service
work at their own free will.
7.Health and safety: Provide employees with a trustworthy, respectful, healthy, and
safe working environment.
8.Employee’ s training and self-development: Provide facility, training program, time,
and grants to support employee’ s occupational development.
ASUS has taken part of social charity activity from time to time to fulfill corporate
social responsibility in addition to providing basic protection. ASUS has based its
long-term orientation and goal on “shortening digital gap,” “upgrading innovative
ability,” “incubating science and technology talents,” “promoting industry and
academy collaboration,” and “promoting environmental protection and energy saving.”
ASUS has ASUS Foundation setup in 2008 to have resources integrated effectively
and to feedback the society with substantiated action for the fulfillment of corporate
social responsibility. Activities promoted by ASUS and ASUS Foundation in 2009:
1. Sponsoring culture/art/music activities:
(1) Sponsor Daai TV for the production and educational promotion of humanity
cleansing programs.
(2) Cooperate with Public TV arranging the 2010 2nd 99 series national
documentary tournament with the theme of “Heart Touching – Taiwan’ s
Vitality.”
(3) Duplicating the successful sponsorship with the Museum of Contemporary Art
Taipei in 2008, ASUS Foundation loans ASUS products free of charge to the
artists and organizers of the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei. ASUS
Foundation had sponsored eleven domestic and international contemporary art
exhibitions in 2009 with 270,000 visitors recorded including the most
representatives of “Taipei Arts Festival – 4th” and “Between the Strait Visual
Attack and Animation Team Exhibition.”
(4) Work with the Cowparada Taipei 2009 held by Council for Cultural Affairs /
Department of Cultural Affairs Taipei City Government / Taichung City
Government to promote public arts. ASUS Foundation offers financial
sponsorship and the “three encierro” design by ASUS MID to the activities and
children beauty and art promotion programs.
(5) Take part in “PayEasy taking care of farmers” activity continuously. ASUS
Foundation adopted oranges in 2008; toxic-free 0.5-heacter rice field of Farmer
L.B. Wang in 2009 that was scheduled for delivery on February 25, 2010.
2. Shortening digital divide:
(1) Overseas
a. Work with ADOC Secretary General and local nonprofit organization to
setup one digital learning center in Indonesia and two digital learning centers
and two digital learning automobiles in Philippines to offer equal
opportunities to minority and youth and children in remote area in order to
shorten digital divide.