The Company aims to create a safe working environment, fulfill its corporate social responsibility, and take care of employees. In addition to providing labor and health insurance, pensions, family care leave, medical leave, pre- and post-natal leave, paternity leave, and childcare leave, etc. in accordance with the law, other employee benefits are listed below:
- For the Xizhi headquarters, implement flexi-time working hours and provide free commute to and from work (XinDian Line, ZhongHe Line). After the relocation of the Beitou factory to Xizhi in Aug 2023, transportation vehicles for commuting on routes such as Danshui and Beitou have also been provided.
- The Employee Welfare Committee is set up to plan and implement a varied welfare system, including family day activities, tourism subsidies, wedding and funeral welfare subsidies, hospitalization condolences for injuries, maternity subsidies, sports competitions, departmental dim sum funds, special store discounts, and both. Artistic humanities, sports and fitness, puzzle fun, parent-child interaction, and other multi-social activities.
- In addition to labor and health insurance, the Company also provides group insurance for all employees, including accidents, cancer prevention, and hospitalization. Employees can pay a token sum so that the Group insurance coverage can be extended from the employees to their family members.
- Employee health checkups are carried out on a regular basis every year. In addition, professional vocational nurses and doctors are stationed in the factory regularly, and they will patrol the Xizhi headquarters and Xizhi Factory to help take care of the health of colleagues.
- Travel insurance and medical insurance for overseas business travel. Compensatory leave will be given in the event of national holidays during overseas business trips.
- In addition to the salary fixed at the end of the year, there are three incentive bonus payments.
- Employee incentive compensation is paid twice a year.
- Performance bonuses are issued based on the achievement of operational goals.
- Provide internal and external training courses with the goal of continuously nurturing talents.
- At the Xizhi head office, there is a free gym, yoga classroom, library, staff saloon, breastfeeding room, health room, a self-service shop, and a beautiful working environment. Employee group meals are also handled in accordance with Xizhi Factory, improving employee satisfaction.
- The employee restaurant of Xizhi Factory has a group meal, a free gym, a library, and audio-visual singing equipment. The office also has a nursing room and a medical room, providing a friendly workplace for colleagues to relax and take care of their health.
- There is an art gallery each at the Xizhi headquarters and the Xizhi Factory, which regularly display artists’ works and organize arts-related lectures. In addition to art appreciation, it also relieves the body and mind of the employees.
- In recent years, the Company has continued to participate in the Ministry of Labor’s “work-life balance" award event, holding several health seminars, stress relief seminars, and parent-child health activities every year to help colleagues achieve work-life balance.
- Promote multiple sports activities within the Company, hold sports events every year, encourage sports club activities, promote sports culture, and promote the physical and mental health of employees. The Company has been awarded the Excellent Enterprise Award for “Hiring Sports Instructors” by the Sports Department.
- In collaboration with local pharmacies, we offer monthly medication delivery services for employees who require regular refills under long-term prescriptions. Medications can be delivered either to the workplace or directly to employees' residences. This initiative is part of our commitment to supporting the health and well-being of our employees and their families.
- The Company has implemented the “Employee Stock Ownership Trust” since February 2022. Employees who have worked for one year can choose to allocate a certain amount from their salary to purchase company stocks every month, and the Company also allocates 30% of the amount as a bonus. With the spirit of long-term investment, the Company helps colleagues save their second retirement fund. By the end of March 2024, 325 employees had joined the Stock Ownership Trust, accounting for 34% of all employees, and the number of shares held by the shareholding trust had climbed to the fifth largest shareholder of the Company.
- The Company aims to become a happy enterprise and has implemented several welfare measures that exceed the Labor Standards Act since 2025. These include 5 days of full-paid sick leave annually, no makeup work on makeup days, and holding the sports day on working days.
In addition, according to the " Act of Gender Equality in Employment", except that there is no gender difference or discrimination in various employee benefits, Axiomtek fully complies with the relevant laws and regulations related to parental leave without pay, and there is no distinction between men and women when applying for parental leave, and employees can also apply for reinstatement smoothly. To enable outstanding talents who are temporarily unable to devote themselves to the workplace, they can temporarily retain their jobs according to the needs of childcare, and return to work to connect with career development after they can devote themselves to the workplace.
| Year |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
| Gender |
Male |
Female |
Male |
Female |
Male |
Female |
Male |
Female |
Male |
Female |
| Actual number of applicants for parental leave without pay in the current year |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
5 |
0 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
| Number of employees who should be reinstated in the current year |
0 |
4 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
3 |
1 |
4 |
| Actual number of employees reinstated in the current year |
0 |
3 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
| Reinstatement ratio |
- |
75% |
- |
100% |
- |
33% |
- |
33% |
100% |
50% |
| Number of employees who continue to work for one year after reinstatement |
- |
1 |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
| Retention ratio after parental leave without pay |
- |
33% |
- |
50% |
- |
- |
- |
100% |
- |
- |
Retirement System
The Company has a defined benefit pension plan in accordance with the Labor Standards Law, covering all regular employees’ service years prior to the enforcement of the Labor Pension Act on July 1, 2005, and service years thereafter of employees who chose to continue to be subject to the pension mechanism under the Law. Under the defined benefit pension plan, two units are accrued for each year of service for the first 15 years and one unit for each additional year thereafter, subject to a maximum of 45 units. Pension benefits are based on the number of units accrued and the average monthly salaries and wages of the last 6 months prior to retirement. The Company contributes monthly an amount equal to 2% of the employees’ monthly salaries and wages to the retirement fund deposited with the Bank of Taiwan, the trustee, under the name of the independent retirement fund committee.
On July 1, 2005, the Company established the pension mechanism for the distribution of pension funds in accordance with the “Labor Pension Act,” which is applicable to employees of ROC nationality. For the employees electing to adopt the “Labor Pension Act” for retirement, the Company allocates 6% of the respective monthly salary to their individual personal pension account at the Labor Insurance Bureau. Pension will be disbursed on the basis of the deposit in the personal pension account with the accumulated sum payable monthly or in a lump sum.
Work Environment and Safety Measures
The Company is committed to building a safe and healthy workplace environment and corporate culture to fulfill its corporate social responsibility. In addition to complying with relevant domestic laws and regulations, the working environment has been aligned with internationally recognized standards. The factory has introduced the ISO14001 environmental management system and the OHSAS18001 / TOSHMS occupational safety and health management system, which have been verified. In 2019, we switched to the ISO45001 / CNS45001 occupational safety and health management system, actively promoting environmental protection, safety, and health activities. In addition to being committed to pollution prevention, waste reduction, and resource recycling, we also control potential environmental, safety, and health hazards through continuous risk improvement.
In order to allow colleagues to feel at ease about the safety of the workplace environment, on-site service doctors will be arranged to provide services in the Company every month in 2024. In addition to continuously tracking colleagues with abnormal health examination results, they will also work with occupational safety and health personnel to check whether the working environment is safe, teach everyone how to stay healthy outside of work, and even help colleagues in need to develop relevant health plans, providing employees with multi-faceted health protection. All external and internal access control points of the Company are equipped with surveillance cameras or access control devices to strictly control access 24 hours a day. The Company has security personnel to assist in maintaining the safety of the office space at night.
There were no fire incidents in 2024. Examples of workplace environmental protection measures (such as identification of fire risks in adverse situations and key feasible disaster reduction measures, etc.) and their implementation are as follows:
- The company formulates an emergency response operation drill plan every year and has its personnel conduct escape and evacuation drills on site. In addition, the management unit of the chemical storage area of the factory formulates a leakage drill plan and invites the operation execution unit to conduct the leakage treatment process and review to prevent accidents.
- In addition to fire extinguisher equipment, the Company also installs automatic gas fire extinguishing facilities in important equipment rooms.
- Emergency escape instructions are posted at the entrances and exits of each floor of the Company, requiring new employees to be familiar with the escape routes in their area.
- Fire management personnel in each area shall conduct independent inspections of fire sources, fire refuge facilities, and fire safety equipment every month and keep records.
Regarding workplace safety, in addition to regularly implementing fire inspection and maintenance declarations, building public safety inspection and declaration operations, and labor work environment monitoring in accordance with relevant laws and regulations, the equipment and fire-fighting equipment used in the factory are also regularly maintained and inspected to ensure that they meet safety standards. In addition, in order to ensure that the working environment continues to meet safety and hygiene standards, Axiomtek regularly monitors the quality of drinking water, lighting, carbon dioxide concentration, and chemical concentration in the air in the employee working environment to ensure the quality of the working environment, protect employee health, and avoid the occurrence of occupational diseases.
The Company has established an "Environmental Policy" and an "Occupational Safety and Health Policy" as guidelines for employees' working environment and work safety.
Environmental Policy
The environmental policy goal of the Company is "Environmental protection is unlimited, resources are sustainable". We continue to make all employees understand the importance of environmental protection through publicity, communication, practical operation and continuous improvement. In product design and manufacturing, we strictly abide by relevant environmental laws and regulations and other necessary requirements to reduce the impact on the environment.
Occupational Safety and Health Policy
Axiomtek has a dedicated labor safety management unit and personnel. In the process of product development, manufacturing, testing, and sales, in addition to complying with safety and health regulations, the Company also cooperates with international and Taiwanese safety and health management systems to implement hazard risk management, conducts hazard assessments and continuously improves risks for each of the Company's operations and work areas. In addition, through pre-employment safety and health training for new employees, occupational safety and health training for on-the-job employees, safety promotion, fire drills, and escape drills, we instill correct occupational safety and health information in our colleagues, aiming to reduce occupational safety and health accidents and fulfill our responsibility to protect employees.
Policy purpose: Pay attention to employee safety and comply with occupational safety laws and regulations.
Policy goal: zero work-related injuries.
Achieve strategy: strictly abide by safety and health laws and regulations, implement hazard risk management, and reduce the occurrence of occupational safety accidents
Achievement measures:
- Implement occupational safety training for new employees for 3 hours per person
- Increase occupational safety training for employees to 4 hours every 3 years
- Regularly conduct occupational safety management system audits once a year
- Implement and improve the occupational safety management system, and audit every defect
In 2021, the Company completed the SMETA external audit and verification for the first time. In addition to providing a safe and friendly workplace, the Company also attaches great importance to the rights of the Company’s employees, respects the employment relationship of employees’ free choice, respects the freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining, and adopts formal The employment relationship does not allow harsh and inhumane treatment of workers, no child labor is allowed in the Company, and discrimination is strictly prohibited to ensure compliance with local labor regulations.
In August 2023, due to factory planning, the Company relocated the entire area of the original Beitou factory to Xizhi Huanhe Street, and carried out relevant facility improvement measures in the new factory area to enhance the environmental safety of the employee workplace and provide a healthy workplace to ensure the quality of work. In December 2023, the Company passed the ISO45001 external audit verification and obtained the ISO 45001 Occupational Safety and Health Management System Certificate, which is valid from December 25, 2023, to December 24, 2026.
In accordance with the labor health protection rules, the Company has hired a full-time labor health service nurse to host the four major labor health protection plans and employee health and injury case tracking management and consultation, first aid and emergency treatment, and regularly organize health promotion activities for all employees. At the same time, the Company arranges for factory doctors to visit the factory regularly every month to provide on-site health services and tracking for employees, and occupational medicine specialists will come to the factory for on-site services once every four months. The Company also conducts employee health checks every year, with an attendance rate of 100%.
For employees who have abnormal three highs and excessive obesity in health examinations, the nurses will ask the factory doctor to provide health consultation and establish tracking information. The factory doctor will recommend relevant measures to the employees, such as: seeking medical treatment for further examination, taking medication, adjusting work and stress management, etc., and continuing to track. In 2014, the number of employees providing consultation and tracking on the three highs and weight loss has reached 89.
The Labor Safety Office organizes several work-life balance activities every year, including stress relief lectures and aerobic activities, to promote the physical and mental health of employees. In 2024, the Company held 8 aerobic activities for a total of 12 hours, with more than 200 participants. The Company also attaches great importance to employee health and exercise. It holds a sports meeting in the middle of each year, and the competition events include sports events such as walking 10,000 steps in a month. The Company has also established a rhythm club for more than three years and organizes club activities during lunch breaks twice a week. More than 30 employees have participated.
Certificate: ISO45001 & CNS45001
