Sourcing of Outstanding Talents
Overview of Manpower
Full-time employment is our basic employment policy. By the end of 2023, neither contract employee nor time-guaranteed employee has been hired. Additionally, no child labor (under 16 years old) has even been hired. All employment have undergone strict interviews and age checks.
By the end of 2023, we have a total of 499 employees, including 475 employees at Taiwan HQ, 21 full-time employees at Yoke Lifting Equipment Shanghai, two employees at Yoke Inc. (a US subsidiary), and one employee at YOKE LIFTING UK LIMITED (a UK subsidiary). We hire local employees for all subsidiaries, with a local employment rate of 100%.
At Taiwan HQ, there were 163 full-time female employees (accounting for 34.32% of all employees). As factory jobs are labor-intensive, most direct labor was male (246 employees, accounting for 82.00% of all employees). After deducting the number of direct labor, the proportion of female employees (62.29%) was higher than that of male employees, and the proportion of female supervisors was up to 45.68%. In addition, over one half of employees hold a university or higher degree, accounting for 62.53% of all employees.
Among the 475 employees at Taiwan HQ, there were 102 Filipino and Thai foreign workers (direct labor). Among all indirect labor, there were six technology and sales managers (TSM, including one Canadian, one Mexican, one Ecuadorian, one South African, one Indian, and one Indonesian), and one FAE (Canadian). All senior officers (100%) were Taiwanese citizens, and all employees of subsidiaries (China, USA, UK) were local citizens.
The security work and cleaning service of Taiwan HQ were outsourced to professional service providers. In 2023, there were two cleaners and five security guards dispatched by these service providers.
Protection of Human Rights
We value labor rights, treat fairly and respect employees, and have established our human rights policy in accordance with the relevant international human rights regulations, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, United Nations Global Compact, International Labour Conventions, and related domestic labor laws and regulations. We have also established various management regulations to not compel a worker to perform work by force, by coercion, by detention, or by other illegal means, or force or compel employees to work against their will. We offer equal job opportunities to all jobseekers in accordance with the Employment Service Act and stipulate in the “Regulations for Management of Recruitment and Employment” that no differential treatment will be imposed on the recruitment, labor conditions, promotion and transfer, training, and benefits of all employees due to race, social class, ideology, religion, political party, place of birth, gender, sexual orientation, age, marriage, appearance, and physical or mental disabilities. The company disallows any discrimination in the workplace and has sexual harassment prevention and control measures in place and offers ways for the victims to file complaints in order to ensure a sexual harassment-free workplace for its people and for any job seekers. Employees can file complaints about infringed rights or improper treatment that cannot be reasonably addressed. Additionally, we have also included ESG advocacy in the orientation training for new employees to better understand environmental sustainability and corporate sustainability through the concise course contents. We have also included the prevention and grievance mechanisms for workplace violence (bullying) in the course. Through our commitment to build a workplace environment with mutual respect and equality, no complaint about discrimination or harassment was reported in 2023.
