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Employee Health and Safety (H&S):
HTC updates its safety and health management plan on an annual basis to reflect current H&S management
conditions. This plan represents HTC's primary line of defense against accidents in the workplace. Main
categories of HTC’s H&S measures include ensuring adherence to all mandated H&S regulations, reducing risk,
and effective management of dangerous and hazardous materials. HTC is certified under OHSAS18001. New
employees receive health and safety education training related to HTC's work environment and production
processes. HTC also holds regular fire safety drills to ensure all employees are with familiar fire prevention and
suppression facilities and equipment.
Reconizing employees' well-being, HTC focuses its effort on employee healthcare, health enhancement, health
management and employee assistance programs. HTC aims to offer all employees a high quality menu of
health service items including regular health checkups, programs / activities, health-related seminars, group
management for specific health problems, and psychological counseling.
(4) Green Product Research and Development
Environmental "green" design procedures have been enforced at HTC since 2000. These procedures address
the complete product lifecycle - from design and production through consumer use and end-of-life disposal.
HTC seeks to identify and find opportunities to minimize the environmental impacts of its products. Use of lead,
cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium and other hazardous materials is minimized or eliminated. Designers also
work to increase the recoverability of materials at end-of-life and the utilization of recycled materials in products in
order to reduce overall environmental impact. HTC develops its green products within the framework of minimal
use of toxic materials, frugal use of input resources and maximum materials recyclability. As such, our products
meet strict environmental regulations enforced in our markets and satisfy customer expectations and needs. All
these enhance HTC's competitiveness and helping realize long-term sustainability for our operations and business.
3. Labor Relations Management
HTC offers employees opportunities to develop professional skills and knowledge; sharpen proactive and positive
attitudes toward professional responsibilities; internalize serious and responsible work values; adopt honest and
forthright work habits and pursue excellence in all tasks and responsibilities in order to create an exceptional work
environment. We provide our employees with engaging challenges as well as skills / knowledge of value to their career
growth. We firmly believe that a positive, energetic work environment boost morale and innovation.
(1) Employee Recruitment
Hiring and retaining exceptional employees is a key objective of HTC's human resources strategy. We are an
equal opportunity employer and recognize the practical benefits that employee diversity brings to HTC's
corporate culture and to our innovative spirits. HTC hires new employees through open selection procedures,
with candidates offered positions based on merit. We permit no discrimination based on ethnicity, skin color,
social status, language, religion, political affiliation, country / region of origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital
status, appearance, disability, professional association membership or other similar considerations not relevant
to job performance. HTC works through cooperative programs with universities, internship programs and
summer work programs to provide work opportunities to a large number of students each year. We participate
actively in job fairs and recruitment events in Taiwan and abroad as part of our ongoing and organized effort to
seek out the best talent available.
(2) Employee Development
HTC sponsors regular seminars and workshops as part of its development initiatives. Globally recognized experts
share insights into market trends, the latest technologies and technology trends. Such knowledge, together
with HTC's brand value, cultural and artistic sensibilities, help HTC staff evaluate and tailor new technologies
to market needs and opportunities. These activities also further enhance staff aesthetic sensibilities, helping
HTC staff give each new HTC product an optimal balance between the practical and the emotive. Seminar
and workshop programs are critical to HTC staff and organizational growth and important facets of both our
competitiveness and commitment to employees.
HTC is committed to its employees' professional growth. In addition to aggressively recruiting new talent,
we maintain a comprehensive curricula covering professional, managerial and personal development as well
as language courses and training for new employees. These programs help staff acclimate quickly to HTC's
corporate culture and acquire essential knowledge and skills. We've introduced e-Learning and Mobile Learning
platforms to make learning more convenient and flexible. Further, we offer staff learning roadmap planning,
professional study scholarships and subsidies for offsite learning. In 2012, total training related expenditure were
NT$22 million and training hours were 286,272 hours.
(3) Employee Benefits and Employee Satisfaction
HTC's work environment is geared to challenge, stimulate and fulfill our employees. We maintain various
outreach initiatives designed to motivate employees, enhance employee benefits and facilitate greater dialogue
between the company and its workforce.
Comprehensive Employee Benefits
HTC provides coverage of its employees under both the National Labor and National Health Insurance
programs, and it provides employees with annual vacation travel allowance, regular physical examinations,
regular departmental lunches, cash bonuses for Taiwan's three main annual festivals, cash for weddings /
funerals, subsidies for club activities, library, book store coupons, and access to employee exercise facilities and
various exercise classes.
Open and Responsive Lines of Communication
HTC operates an internal system to receive employee complaints. This system includes a hotline, mailbox, and
e-mail address dedicated to receiving employee complaints and suggestions as well as a regularly convened
joint labor-management committee. HTC regularly canvasses employee opinions. Results are made available to
executives and managers and used to measure changes in employee satisfaction and commitment.
Regular Activities and Events
HTC holds regular sports rallies, family days, athletic competitions and artistic / literary contests to increase
opportunities for employees to enjoy informal interactions outside of their regular work.
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