CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

ASE provides clean and welldesigned dining restaurants at its facilities, and subsidizes 50% (or above) of employee meal expenses. To ensure healthier and tastier meals, the restaurants update their menus every quarter and ensure that ingredients are from hygienic and reliable sources.

Cafeteria, ASE Kaohsiung

To provide special care to employees from out of town, we built our own dormitories in Kaohsiung, Shanghai, Kunshan and Weihai facilities. We also added buildings accommodating couples in Shanghai's employee dormitory last year and replaced old equipment and furniture. In 2015, we invested around US$31.6 million (NT$1 billion) to build a new dormitory at the Kaohsiung facility. In 2016, we invested about US$115K to purchase various equipment and supplies to ensure safety. In 2017, a newly-built dormitory was open accommodating over 3,000 out-of-town employees.

ASE Kaohsiung Facility's New Female Dormitory
ASE invested NT$1 billion in constructing a largescale dormitory for female employees. The dormitory is equipped with the latest solar heating technology which allows hot water to be maintained at a constant 42 degrees Celsius year-round. It also has a rainwater recycling system, saving 5,100 tons of water a year. The dormitory has all types of amenities, including convenience stores; a variety of healthy and tasty food options; 24-hour multilingual professional service and an elegant prayer room. Multimedia classrooms offer regular language courses and screen movies to enrich the lives of employees.

Dormitory, ASE Kunshan

ASE cares about the convenience and safety associated with employees' transportation. We provide shuttle bus pick-up and drop-off services between employee dormitories and facilities as well as shuttle bus services between facilities. Employees' parking fees within Shanghai employee Living Area are subsidized by ASE. In 2016, a license plate recognition system was installed at the employee living area to improve the safety and security of the residents.

Shuttle Bus within Facilities, ASE Kaohsiung

We care about employees' health and provide free physical health examinations to our employees at the clinics. There are also wellequipped gyms at many of our facilities that are free of charge. Additionally, employees have access to massage centers for fatigue and stress relief.

Employee Health Clinic, ASE Kaohsiung

Insurance Program
All ASE employees are covered by the national labor insurance and group insurance, including life insurance, accidental injury insurance, medical insurance, cancer insurance, and more. ASE also provides travel insurance for employees going on business trips. ASE also offers free group insurance to our employees' spouses and children.

Retirement Scheme
Defined benefit plans
The Company and its subsidiaries in Taiwan joined the defined benefit pension plan under the ROC Labor Standards Law operated by the government. Pension benefits are calculated on the basis of the length of service and average monthly salaries of the last six months before retirement. The Company and its subsidiaries in Taiwan make contributions based on a certain percentage of their domestic employees monthly salaries to a pension fund administered by the pension fund monitoring committee.

ASE Japan has a pension plan under which eligible employees with more than ten years of service are entitled to receive pension benefits based on their length of service and salaries at the time of termination of employment. ASE Japan makes contributions based on a certain amount of pension cost to employees. ASE Korea also has a pension plan under which eligible employees and directors with more than one year of service are entitled to receive a lump-sum payment upon termination of their service with ASE Korea, based on their length of service and salaries at the time of termination. ASE Korea makes contributions based on a certain percentage of pension cost to an external financial institution administered by the management and in the names of employees.

Defined Contribution Plans
The pension plan under the ROC Labor Pension Act (“LPA”) for the Group’s ROC resident employees is a government-managed defined contribution plan. Based on the LPA, the Company and its subsidiaries in Taiwan makes monthly contributions to employees’ individual pension accounts at 6% of their monthly salaries. The subsidiaries located in China, U.S.A., Malaysia, Singapore and Mexico also make contributions at various ranges according to relevant local regulations.

Employee Health Clinic, ASE Kaohsiung

Female Employee Care
We cater to the unique needs of our female employees and offer reserved parking spaces for pregnant employees, as well as private nursing rooms at ASE. At ASE Chungli and Korea, we have on-site kindergartens to provide child care services to employees. If employees need to stay at home to focus on child care, employees can apply for paid parental leave. In 2018, we started to build a "Kindergarten specific for ASE employees" of green building at the Kaohsiung facility.

Nursing Room, ASE Chungli

As soon as foreign employees join ASE, we will arrange language classes for them to aid in their education and training. Translators are also available at our facilities. New employees will also be provided information regarding local life and culture, and they will be guided by other more senior and knowledgeable foreign employees. All foreign workers are entitled to the same benefits enjoyed by local employees.

Adaptation Assistance, ASE Kaohsiung

ASE Kaohsiung Facility Kindergarten
To support our employees with young children, ASE's Kaohsiung facility spent NT$100 million to build an onsite kindergarten. The three storey kindergarten will have an area of 6,406 square meters, and is located at the Kaohsiung Oil Refinery Elementary School's historic site. It will be a green building with a wide outdoor space planted with trees and include animal habitats and aquaponics pond systems. These features will serve as green classrooms where students can learn about nature.

Day Care Center, ASE Chungli