Work policies and practices

To be a world-class logistics supplier is our vision since the company’s establishment. With shipping as the core value, we constantly seek opportunities to cooperate with quality companies to expand our business territory and thereby achieve business diversification. In recent years, we have been developing green shipping, enhancing maritime safety and introducing digital smart management in support of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization. We make continual advancement through implementing defined sustainable management goals. At the beginning of each year, we will discuss the list of topics in conformity with “environmental” ,“social” and “governance” sustainable development with respect to the UN SDGs, topics that concern stakeholders and subject matter in relation to industrial/environmental compliance. Then we will submit the list to BOD which will vote for the feasible sustainable topics to be implemented by each department.

Employee benefits

• While employees are our most important asset, we have established a remuneration committee which holds meetings regularly to review the wage standard of employees. In addition, we have established an employee welfare committee (EWC) and Labor-Management Meeting to plan and implement matters in relation to employee benefits.
• Apart from organizing leisure activities, employee travels, and activities to express appreciation for employees on major festivals, we offer birthday presents (vouchers) and travel allowances for employees to balance work and health and promote friendship among them. To express care for the employee’s family, we provide scholarships for employees and their children and allowances for weddings, funerals and hospitalization.
• We pay the salary of employees by their education attainments, experience, professional skills and personal performance. We ensure equal remuneration regardless of gender, race, religion, political affiliation, marital status and trade union and organization membership. The basic salary and remuneration of male and female base-level onshore employees were at least 1.5 times higher than Taiwan’s mandatory minimal wage. The salary and remuneration increase in Taiwan was 4.1%
• The salary for ROC sea crews is 2.5 times higher than the standard specified in The Seafarer Act.
• In accordance with the Labour Standards Law, the Labour Pension Act, the Crew Law, the Maritime Law, and other relevant regulations, the Company has established Employee Retirement Rules and Crew Retirement Rules. The Company's "Work Rules" stipulate employment, attendance, assessments, rewards and punishments, promotions, treatment and retirement benefits.
• We offer ordinary sick leave better than that of the Labor Standards Act (LSA): 90 days of paid sick leave, including full pay for the first 30 days and half pay for the 31st to the 90th days. We also encourage employees to take paternity leave without pay (PLWOP), family care leave, and paternal leave to take care of their family. To encourage employees to have children, we have equipped the office with lactation facilities for female employees to feel free to breastfeed their children. We have also established the regulations for preferential nursery services with nearby kindergartens in the name of the Far Eastern Group.
• In addition to the mandatory Labor Insurance, Employment Insurance and National Health Insurance, we arrange group insurance and accident insurance for employees to give them more protection.
• The Company assigns suitable employees to take first-aid training courses in accordance with laws and they are qualified as first-aid personnel. In response to the laws, the Company has signed contracts with the hospital and the nursing management company to provide on-the-spot service to the medical staff every month, and provide professional assistance related to the Company’s occupational safety and consulting services on the personal physical and mental health of office colleagues.
• The Company attaches great importance to the health of employees, and regularly conducts key health examinations and lectures on physical and mental health, and applies for the “Work-life Balance Plan of the Ministry of Labor”, so as to invest more resources in the care of physical and mental health of employees.