| Flexible working hours |
- Our flexible working hour system include a range of shifts from as early as 7:30 am to as
late
as 10:00 am, allowing employees to apply for shifts that fit personal needs. Flexible working
hours allows employees to take care of personal matters without sacrificing work hours.
- Employees can apply to reduce working hours one hour per day, for raising children of less
than three years old.
- Pregnant or nursing female employees are adjusted to avoid working at night.
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| Working from home arrangements |
- Our company offers the option for employees to work from home for 10 days per month, and
special requests for full-time remote work for up to one year can also be submitted.
Currently, we have a colleague who is working remotely from Germany
- Employees can use multiple devices such as mobile office app, push mail, VPN, to work from
home. Moreover, TWM developed an instant messenger system (M+ system), and employees can
communicate work-related information with colleagues or online sign-off directly and
effectively.
- Pregnant employees can work from home until delivery after approval.
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| Part-time working options |
- We offer part-time working options for employees in order to meet their personal needs, such
as family member caring or child caring. In 2023, we have 93 part-time workers.
- Our full-time employees can have a second or even third part-time job after approval. We
offer
employees the chance to explore more opportunities in their career.
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| Childcare facilities or contributions |
- Our birth allowance for each newborn baby is NT$60,000, and child allowance is NT$10,000 for
each child under age 6 every year. We provide parents with childcare assistance programs, such
as baby caring education.
- Employees can use content provided by “MyVideo”, app developed by TWM, to watch kids’ movies
or children's television series, or learn English.
- Company signs contracts with childcare institutions to provide employee childcare discounts.
- Group insurance for employee’s children at discounted rates.
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| Breast-feeding /lactation facilities or benefits |
- We hire professional nurses to offer workshops to brand new parents and provide employees
with
baby care advice. Well-equipped breast-feeding rooms with medical-grade equipment has been set
up to allow employees to continue nursing their children after giving birth. The nurses teach
new mothers breast-feeding tips and provide health education. Regularly organize
mother-to-child
lectures to provide employees with child care information; e.g. "How to breastfeed" and
provide
fertility gifts, child care subsidies, children education subsidies to help employees give the
best care to their children.
- Breastfeeding time is twice a day and deemed as working time.
- Protect pregnant or nursing females from working at night.
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| Paid parental leave for the primary caregiver in excess of the minimum legal requirement |
- TWM offers maternity leave that exceeds statutory requirements, e.g. the female employee
miscarriage after being pregnant for less than two months, shall be permitted to discontinue
work and granted paid maternity leave for 7 days revised from 5 days unpaid leave by laws, and
pregnant employees can take partially paid, job protected leave until delivery.
- We offer 10 weeks of paid maternity leave (compared with 8 weeks required by laws) for those
employees with over 6 months of seniority.
- We evaluate actual performance at work, ensuring people who applied for maternity leave were
not impacted.
- We provided parental leave, 102 female employees applied for parental leave and return rate
was 76.6% in 2023.
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| Paid parental leave for the non-primary caregiver in excess of the minimum legal requirement
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- Employees are granted 7 days paid paternity leave.
- Employees can adjust their starting and finishing work time of up to one hour of the daily
regular working hours to manage their demands, such as picking-up and dropping-off at
childcare,
caring for sick children, and attending medical and other appointments.
- New parents are provided parental leave to give best care for their children. In 2023, 33
male employees applied for unpaid parental leave and return rate was 85.2%. We evaluate on
actual performance at work, ensuring people who applies parental leave are not impacted.
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| Paid family or care leave beyond parental leave |
- During the pandemic, the company offer fully-paid epidemic prevention and care leave for
employees who can’t WFH, such as direct store staff, but need to take care children.
- Employees can take paid public leave for vaccinations.
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| Leaves in excess of legally required minimum |
- Sick leave：Employees are granted 48 hours fully-paid (statutory: half-paid) and 192 hours
half-paid sick leave per year.
- Bereavement leave：The bereavement leave is 6 days that is revised upwards from 3 days by
laws.
- We offer our employees two days of paid leave each year, with transportation allowances, to
perform volunteer services.
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| Tenure-rewards program |
To reward employees for longevity and commitment, we reward employees with gifts. |
| Retirement plan and implementation |
Old Labor Pension System
The Company has published its Employee Retirement Guidelines and formed a Labor Pension
Supervisory Committee in accordance with the law. In addition, the Company retains the services
of
an actuary to assess and calculate labor pension reserves and provide a detailed report
annually.
It contributes a sum equivalent to 2% of a worker's monthly wage into a special labor pension
account as a reserve fund to pay retirees.
As of January 2024, the accumulated reserve fund was NT$745,672,000.
New Labor Pension System
The Company implemented the New Labor Pension System in July 2005. It deposits 6% of a
worker's
monthly wage into an individual labor pension account managed by the Bureau of Labor Insurance,
with ownership going to the worker.
A total of NT$173,795,000 was deposited in 2023.
Retirement policy
The Company regulates its retirement policy in accordance with labor laws. It also offers the
option of early retirement for employees who have worked for at least five years with the
Company,
which plus his/her age would equal 65 years or above, subject to the Chairman’s approval.
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| Sport & health initiatives |
Two stages of online employee sports competitions are held through the self-developed MySports
App every year. In 2023, a total of 3,563 people will participate in online employee sports
competitions, consuming more than 35.35 million calories.
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