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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.
In addition to the aforementioned human rights policy fulfilled by ASUS, the suppliers
of ASUS are expected to protect labor’s human rights; also, enhance the awareness of
corporate social responsibility of the ASUS suppliers and contractors. ASUS routinely
conducts CSR audit to suppliers and add analysis on education, training and past audit
results for improvement to assure supplier conformance to protect the human rights,
health, safety, and environment of labors in terms of managerial dimension, regulation
cognition and implementation for improvement.
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 2012:
1. Sponsoring culture/art/music activities:
(1) Humanistic care
a. Sponsor in Daan TV or programs that cleanse the social order: ASUS
promotes humanity education, encourages integrity and honesty and solid
commitment, to provide a continuous supply of power for social welfare, so
that every corner of land stepped on by ASUS will contain abundance of
emostions and stories.
b. Organized the 4th National 99-Second Short-Movie Competition: The
activity and the Public Television are widely popular among young students.
There were approximately 250 pieces of films recruited this year. The theme
of the activity aims to encourage young people with creativity, using digital
technology for creation and sharing the positive and sentimental stories in life
through actual work, thereby to cohere the social positive power. This year,
ASUS continues the theme in “Sentiment” for the film recruitment, with
subtitle in “Discovering the Beauty of Taiwan” to invite everyone to discover
the innocence, benevolence, and beauty of local Taiwan. The winning works
will be edited into teaching lessons of life education, provided to elementary
school teachers for free use and learning.
c. Organized the Fourth ASUS Aboriginal Science Education Award: There
were eight races forming 44 teams who participated in the competition. In
particularly, 25 schools formed teams while 8 teams consisted of inter-school
teams with a total number of participants exceeding 260 people. The activity
is widely supported by aborinals, teachers from suburban cities and children.
It is also recognized by the Council of Indigenous Peoples and the Taiwan
Indigenous TV. The award ceremony is sponsored by the Council of
Indigenous Peoples while the Taiwan Indigenous TV conducting interview