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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 2013:
1. Promoting culture/art/music related sponsorship with key execution described
below:
(1) Sponsoring clean program production for DaAi TV to promote literary
education, encourage integrity and pragmatic attitude, so that the power of
social welfare will continue to grow and all land enriched by emotions and
stories.
(2) National 99-Second SHORT-FILM Competition: ASUS Foundation and
Taiwan Public Television Service co-sponsor the “National 99-Second
SHORT-FILM Event” and have completed the 4th evaluation and award
presentation ceremony in 2014. Upon entering its fifth year, the competition
features themes following the current events taking place each year, in attempt
to convey the positive and benevolent power through the films. This year, we
discover the truth, benevolence and beauty of different places in Taiwan. We
also expect to bring attention from everyone to the ubiquitous sentiment around
us through the calling of national films on “Sentiment 99.”
a. The 4th Sentiment 99, Discovery of Taiwan’s Truth, Benevolence and
Beauty: The 4th Sentiment 99 took off on October 30th, 2012. A total of 249
films have been collected by the end of February, 2013 and the award
ceremony was held on May 26th, 2013. The number of participants was 688
people, hitting a record high in the overall participants over the years,
indicating that the participants now know how to integrate different
resources to connect the unforgettable memories and rare experiences in life
through teamwork into different touching stories. The number of visitors to
the event website was 16,455. This year, we added Facebook to interact with
young people and the number of likes for Sentiment 99 was 450 people, with