Wistron NeWeb Corporation

Employees are the most important assets of any company. WNC maintains corporate recruitment principles of "respect for human rights" and "the right person in the right position", as well as ensuring that the whole recruitment process conforms to all labor regulations and gender equality guidelines in employment law.

Employee professionalism is the key factor in the whole recruitment process. We never consider individual gender, age, race, religion, or political affiliation as an advantage or drawback during evaluation. All participants have an equal opportunity to express their capabilities in an open and transparent recruitment process. Personnel from the recruitment affairs department also regularly participate in diverse training programs on our interview processes, which include interview skills and the use of specialized evaluation tools.

Human rights and legal rights of the disabled are important concerns of WNC. We encourage the recruitment of disabled colleagues that have professional skills to contribute. In 2010, there were 14 disabled employees working for WNC, including six mild, one moderate and four severely disabled colleagues. They cover a wide range of job functions such as masseurs, production line operators, engineers, expatriate employees and special assistants. In 2011, one mild and one severely disabled employee joined WNC. We will continue to assess appropriate positions for disabled persons to ensure that the disabled employee ratio of this company conforms to government laws. In addition, in accordance with the Labor Standards Law, WNC does not hire persons under the age of 16.

Total number of employees in Taiwan, 2008-2010

As of the end of December, 2010, the total number of worldwide WNC employees was 8238, of which 1634 employees are located in Taiwan, including 1101 indirect labor (IDL) employees and 533 direct labor (DL) employees. The percentage of female employees was 45.6%. 56.4% of our colleagues are aged between 26 and 35 and almost half of all employees have worked for WNC for over 4 years, which indicates that our younger generation of employees are willing to grow with WNC.

The performance appraisal system of WNC was developed by considering both corporate operational efficiency and the development of competencies by each employee. Performance is evaluated according to two parameters, behavior and objectives. Performance in terms of both quality and quantity will be examined simultaneously and periodically, and the results will serve as the basis for giving appropriate rewards or promotions to employees.

Employees are the key assets of WNC. A wide variety of actions are taken to attract more capable and highly skilled employees to stay and grow with WNC. We implement different programs based on employee work experience and management levels, which include guidance of new hires, employee care/motivation, rewards for well-performing and long service employees, internal transfers, wage structure adjustments and improvement of management systems. We proactively develop a working environment with a competitive and comprehensive welfare system. The gradually decreasing turnover rate, which is lower than the industry average, also indicates the excellent performance of our retention programs.

2006-2010 Employees Turnover Rates

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Employment Compensation

WNC regularly adjusts employee salaries to provide reasonable remuneration for colleagues, as well as to maintain and attract more highly capable employees. And, in order to take into consideration other factors including stockholder rights, colleague quality of life, and sustainable development of this company, employee wages are regularly adjusted according to current price levels, market demand/supply status, average industry salary levels, and local laws/regulations. All well-performing employees and departments are also motivated by various bonuses and reward systems without any bias of gender, age, race, religion, or political affiliation.

Besides participating in Labor Insurance and the National Health Insurance, and contributing employee wages to their retirement accounts according to Article 55 and 56 of the Labor Standards Act law, all WNC regular employees also enjoy a group insurance plan that WNC provides, which allows colleagues and their families more protection against health hazards and accidents. All WNC regular and contract employees also enjoy longer annual leaves than that is specified in the Labor Standards Act. For the comfort of long-term expatriate employees, some extra benefits or services are also available, which include expatriate allowances, travel/meal allowances, housing allowances for family members traveling with the expatriate employee, education allowances for their children, airplane tickets for expatriate employees’ family members, periodic meetings/discussions, and airport transfer services.

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Training and Development

WNC values the importance of recruiting fully qualified employees, and pays special attention to improving the skills and general knowledge of our colleagues. Based on this concept and the central idea of growth, innovation and cooperation, colleagues are provided with job function enhancement training programs, key competencies enhancement programs, supervisory and leadership training, as well as a provision for multiple learning approaches.

WNC is based in Taiwan and has its vision towards the world. Recruitment activities held by WNC global sites and branches are always compliant to local laws and regulations. They provide healthy and safe working conditions and offer complete occupational training for employees and assist colleagues in updating and improving their competencies, management capability, language and general knowledge.

Employment Actions

Operation Plan


The training courses that WNC provides include:

•	New employee guidance courses: Assistance for new colleagues to become familiar with the working environment and corporate culture.
•	Professional skills training: Specialized knowledge including R&D technologies, procurement, mechanics, 6 Sigma, green product design, manufacturing, patent, industry information and ESH (Environment, Safety and Health).
•	General knowledge and language training: Including project management, time management, presentation skill, meeting planning, languages and job-related software and tools.
•	Management skills development: Including management, leading, motivation, training, and self-growing skills for middle to high level supervisors and new supervisors.

In 2010, the “WNC College” was established. This training system includes a Management College, Marketing College, R&D College, Manufacturing Quality College and General Knowledge College. By taking corporate organization, vision and strategies as core subjects, we accumulate successful examples and gradually build up this training system.

In addition to face-to-face type courses, the eHRD on-line training system offers another convenient avenue, which is a more flexible and effective way for colleagues to use their spare time to learn from on-line courses. External training resources are welcomed and encouraged. WNC also provides appropriate allowance for these courses to assist employees in further improving the depth and width of their competencies.

Through the full support from management team and our continuous improvement, a complete training system has been developed. In 2010, WNC obtained the qualification of Taiwan Training Quality System (TTQS) and was certified as an excellent company for its training system. In 2011, we took part in the National HRD InnoPrize competition and won the group award as an excellent enterprise.


WNC was rewarded as an outstanding TTQS organization		The Council Of Labor Affairs of the Executive Yuan announced the 2011 National HRD InnoPrize winner

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Environmental, Safety & Health (ESH) Management


Since its establishment in 1996, WNC has been working proactively to establish a safe and healthy working environment. Besides establishing ESH policies, WNC pays great attention to employees’ education and practice of those safety and sanitation rules to better prevent damages and health risks. An ESH examination committee has been set up for monitoring and controlling the ESH management system, as well as examining the corporate environmental aspects and assessing ESH risks in order to achieve PDCA (plan-do-check-act) principles. The ESH certifications obtained by WNC includes:

•	2009- Accreditation certification for achieving a healthy workplace from the Bureau of Health Promotion.
•	2008- OHSAS 18001 certification.
•	2005- ISO 140001 certification.

We had a professional nurse joining WNC In June, 2011 and had started planning a employee health care service. One more appropriate personnel responsible for nursing affairs will be recruited to provide employees with more completed health services.

We follow all government regulations regarding environment, safety and health, and put into practice all relevant measures according to the ESH management policies given below:

•	Conformance to government regulations, ensuring that environmental protection measures keep up-to-date with global ESH trends
•	Provide a safe and healthy working environment for all employees.
•	Continue the effort to prevent pollution and occupational injuries and diseases.
•	All employees must work in concerted effort to design and manufacture high quality green products that fulfill customer demands.

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Occupational Safety and Health Management

WNC emphasizes and proactively performs numerous risk assessments, periodically manages the changes that are related to occupational safety and health, and controls the influences that each change may cause. Internal and external audit activities are held every year to ensure that the occupational safety and health system is functioning well and is improving. A labor safety and health committee is also organized according to the Labor Safety and Health Act.

To effectively maintain workplace safety and minimize employee health hazards, we evaluate workplace conditions periodically according to government laws regarding the monitoring of the workplace environment. The target measuring items include lead, organic solvents, illumination, carbon dioxide and noise. The carbon dioxide monitoring system is installed all around the office and factory areas. Employees can check the concentration of indoor carbon dioxide anytime. To quicken reaction times to emergencies, each WNC employee is organized into fire-prevention teams on a department basis. We also hold traffic & safety forums, health forums, health enhancement activities, occupational safety and health training and annual fire-prevention training to help colleagues have better awareness of personal health care and occupational safety concerns.


Fire-prevention Team Course	Fire-fighting Equipment Operation Practice


Accreditation certification for achieving a healthy workplace from the Bureau of Health Promotion

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Food Safety and Health Improvement


WNC implements the following measures to provide safe, healthy and nutritious drinking water/meals services for employees:

•	Established the employee meal service committee for monitoring food safety related matters.
•	Periodic water quality tests of water dispensers.
•	Cooperation with certified meal service venders and ensuring that venders follow all government regulations and food safety laws.
•	All meal service personnel are required to take periodic health examinations. Staff members are not allowed to provide meal services after being diagnosed with infectious diseases including pulmonary tuberculosis, hepatitis, venereal diseases, contagious pustular dermatitis (or Orf) or typhoid.
•	Venders must provide meal services with qualified ingredients. Random inspections are performed by WNC.
•	Audit meal service venders on a random time basis to ensure that the environment, management and staff members conform to all safety and sanitation rules.



Safe and Clean Meal-serving Area	Comfortable Dining Environment


Café	Fruit Stand


For maintaining the health of our colleagues, the following measures are implemented by WNC:

•	Health examination for new hires.
•	Annual health examination for all employees.
•	Additional health examinations for employees who perform special operations.
•	Health forums for improving employee health care knowledge.
•	Health enhancement activities such as influenza vaccination, physical fitness examination, and weight-reduce camp.
•	Post health enhancement articles on the WNC internal website for employees to reference.
•	Established the exercise place, “Energy Hall”, that provides various fitness and exercise facilities.
•	Various courses in aerobic room regularly including kickboxing aerobics, Tai Chi, Yoga and various choices for exercise. All courses are provided with low price and professional teachers to fulfill employees’ exercise requirement.
•	Free profession massages in the evening from Monday to Thursday, helping employees’ obtain body relief.



Employees Annual Health Examination	Comfortable Employee Massage Service

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Gender Equality and Communication Mechanism

To prevent workplace sexual harassment and ensure that the workplace is friendly to both male and female employees, the “Measures for Preventing Workplace Sexual harassment” has been established and practiced. Meanwhile, pregnancy discrimination is strictly forbidden at WNC. Employees can feel free to apply for family leave and unpaid parental leave for raising children according to the Labor Standards Law and the Gender Equality in Employment Act. We also offer menstruation leave, maternity leave, miscarriage leave and additional breast-feed time for female employees.


Other female-employee-friendly acts include:

•	Parking spaces for female employees are arranged closer to parking lot entrances.
•	Dedicated convenient parking spaces for pregnant employees.
•	Comfortable and spacious breast-feeding room.

Breast-feeding Room

To care more for employee working conditions and strengthen relationships with colleagues, WNC has established the Gardener Relationship Improvement Committee (hereafter called the Gardener Committee). The committee, which is composed of all employees, functions as a feedback channel for colleagues to bring up issues. It delivers opinions to the management team and replies to colleagues’ concerns and suggestions after thorough consideration. The Gardeners are department representatives who are elected by each department. WNC’s CEO serves as the committee president and appoints two administrators to be responsible for the operation of the Gardener Committee. Committee meetings are held quarterly, and can also be held when the president or more than a third of Gardener Committee members agree to hold a provisional committee meeting. In 2010, four committee meetings are held and 190 proposals are discussed during the meetings, which include 45 employee meal service items, 21 employee welfare items, 102 working environment items, and 10 others while 12 other business proposals were also discussed.

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Employee Welfare Committee

WNC offers a wide variety of measures and activities regarding employee welfare and has established the WNC Employee Welfare Committee to perform overall planning of all these measures and activities. Representatives from employees and management team coordinate the usages of the employee welfare fund to further improve the relationship between the management team and employees. Committee members are designated by each department serving as representatives to join quarterly committee meetings, which plans and examines activity proposals, urges and monitors how activities are progressing, and allocates the budget. Meetings can also be held randomly when necessary.


The annual employee welfare budgets are contributed by company revenue and employee salary. The employee welfare committee develops activity plans according to the budgets and WNC business strategies while centering the two themes: health care and life quality improvement. In 2010, we provide a wide variety of activities based on the annual theme “Tiny Simplicity and Huge Happiness.” See the contents and results below:

•	Corporate events: year-end party, WNC family day, sports club festival, mid-autumn festival evening party and lantern festival riddle games.
•	Indoor events: 29 events are held including investment & financing forums, parenting forums, spiritual enrichment forums, handcraft DIY classes and free movies.
•	Department trip or activities: 125 events are held.
•	Sports Courses: aerobic, Tai Chi and Yoga courses. A total of 5 sessions are held and each session contains 10 classes. 410 person-times participate in these courses.

We set up the Energy Hall with various exercise facilities and a reading room that provides books, magazines and rich reading materials. The art gallery besides the reading room held book markets and exhibits the works of Taiwan local artists on a random time basis. The Sunshine Corridor posts activity pictures of employees. All colleagues are welcomed to join various employee clubs of which they are good at or interested in.


WNC Art Gallery	The Sunshine Corridor


Energy Hall I	Inside of Energy Hall I


Energy Hall II	Inside of Energy Hall II


Spacious and Bright Reading Room

The company also provides allowances for each club. Currently, there are 8 clubs in WNC including golf, basketball, softball, badminton, bowling, foosball and photography. A total of 399 employees have joined these clubs. In 2010, 46 routine or non-routine activities are held, providing a lively and enthusiastic environment for WNC employees.


The Bowling Club Won the Group Champion in the Hsinchu Amateur League Games	The Ever-Winning Softball Club


Regular Table Tennis Club Activities	Badminton Club Family Sport Day


Regular Golf Club Activities	The Champion Team of 2010 WNC Basketball Games Held by the Basketball Club


Regular Table Football Activities	Outdoor Portrait Photography Activities by the WNC Photography Club

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