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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
2. Employee Assistance Programs
Through the Hsinchu Lifeline, HTC provides employees with psycho-
logical guidance and consultation, and on both a regular and irregular
basis, its Employee Assistance Program (EAP) makes counseling
services available to all employees in the areas of career/work, family
and relatives, relationships, and psychological stress, helping to lower
incidence of psychological or family problems due to work-related
stress.
3. Work environment
>HTC provides its employees with a variety of services, includ-
ing a convenience store, coffee shop, travel agency, fitness
center, and library.
>HTC provides a healthy, varied dietary selection and snacks for
afternoon tea breaks, and also provides comfortable dormito-
ries and convenient transportation services for employees.
>With the cooperation of the Eden Social Welfare Foundation,
blind masseuses help HTC employees relieve stress through
massage.
>In order to provide reliably clean and safe drinking water, HTC
each quarter requests agencies recognized by the
Environmental Protection Agency to carry out a total bacterial
count and fecal coliform bacteria count in the volumes required
by law. Maintenance and disinfection of drinking water installa-
tions are also performed regularly.
>Employees receive training to form emergency rescue teams
that can assist in responding to incidents or accidents at the
production facilities.
4. The Employee Welfare Committee
The budget of the Employee Welfare Committee is used for provision
of various benefits, including health and leisure facilities, scholarships
for employees' children, day care, holiday bonuses, library gift certifi-
cates, departmental vacation trips, and corporate and group insurance.
The Committee has also established the Tai Ji Sports Center, which
provides a fitness center and other facilities.
The HTC Foundation
HTC makes regular donations each year to the HTC Educational Foundation
or the HTC Social Welfare and Charity Foundation. In 2009, the
Foundation's participation in the community involved the following public
service activities:
1. Continuing support for 200 children from low-income households in
Haiti and the Republic of Ghana for the fifth consecutive year in coop-
eration with World Vision Taiwan.(2004~2009)
2. Continuing support for 89 children from low-income households in
the Yuli Township of Hualien, Taiwan, for the sixth consecutive year in
cooperation with World Vision Taiwan.(2003~2009)
3. Sponsorship of after-school study-program for 300 children from low-
income households, for the fifth consecutive year in cooperation with
the Chinese Christian Relief Association. (2004~2009)
4. Contributions by the Foundation and HTC of NT$20 million each to
disaster relief in Sichuan Province for donation to rebuilding projects
in disaster regions. Employees have also donated nearly NT$ 4 million
for construction of the Chadian Township elementary school in Mian
County, Shanxi.
5. Provision of NT$ 3 million for assistance to Myanmar hurricane disas-
ter relief in cooperation with the Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist
Foundation.
6. Provision of scholarships for 1,000 students for the second consecu-
tive year at six schools in China's remote northwest regions and
Qinghai Province.
7. Provision of tuition and board year-round for 100 needy senior high
school students for the second consecutive year with outstanding
records in China's Ningxia and Liaoning Provinces.
8. Sponsorship of Good Deed Representative Yin Guanghua for the third
consecutive year in giving character-building lectures at hundreds of
schools and prisons around the country.
9. Provision of assistance for the second consecutive year to the
Rehabilitation Hope Project at the Development Center for the Spinal
Cord Injured.
10. In addition, HTC provides long-term support for youth education and
character-building organizations for the fifth consecutive year, includ-
ing the Champions Education Association and the Rainbow Family
Life Education Association.
11. HTC provides free Dale Carnegie course teacher training through the
Pan Shi ("Bedrock") Education Project for a cumulative total of 25,000
persons; character training for teachers for a cumulative total of
18,000 persons throughout Taiwan; and deep communication and
expressiveness training for 2000 persons. A total of 45,000 persons
throughout Taiwan have received training through the Foundation. The
Foundation began promoting Character Building Schools in 2008,
providing a total of NT$7.73 million in sponsorship for 50 different
schools.
12. Contribution to establishment of a Character & English Institute in
Hualien County by providing full sponsorship for attendance for all
4th-grade elementary students in Hualien County at a five-day four-
night camp for character building and English learning. HTC con-
tributes tens of millions of New Taiwan Dollars in sponsorship for all
operating and upkeep costs, while also participating in development of
courses that provide English teaching to minorities and residents of
remote districts.
13. Beginning in 2008, HTC has provided sponsorship of more than NT$1
million to allow children from low-income households in Taoyuan
County to participate in English Village activities there.
14. Continuing promotion of HTC's "Character Township" plans for public
servants in 5 townships, providing training to a cumulative total of
2,000 visits.
V. CAPITAL AND SHARES