Letter To Shareholders - Mitac

5.3. Workforce
5.3.1 Staff’s information in the most recent two years and up to the publication date of this annual
report
Number of
employees
Year 2008 2009 Ended on April 30, 2010
Direct personnel 0 0 0
Indirect personnel 1,512 1,342 1,324
Total 1,512 1,342 1,324
Average age 36.52 39.20 35.64
Average employment years 5.27 4.64 5.54
PhD 7 3 3
Level of
education
Masters’ 474 435 433
College 997 876 861
High school 30 24 24
Below 4 4 3
5.3.2 Qualification of personnel who are responsible for financial data transparency
Internal Auditors of the Republic of China: 2 persons
Accountant of the Republic of China: 2 person
5.4. Expenses incurred for environmental protection issues
Upon to the publication date of the report and in recent years, the company had not been
punished or been fined by any losses caused by environmental pollution. Hereby describing
our counter measures:
We are a professional computer assembly manufacturer; in our production process, there
are no controlled items of air, water and toxic pollutants involved. In addition, the company
received an award of top 500 businesses -- the first Environmental Protection Assessment from
the Environmental Protection Agency in 1992. It was certified by ISO 14001 in 1997, and
since then, we have kept our commitment to preventing pollution. In 1999, we won a two-year
honor when passing the Safety and Hygiene System Evaluation conducted by the Council of
Labor Affairs. The company will continue to promote environmental protection, worker safety,
zero-pollution and zero-injury as our permanent operation goals.
5.4.1 Background
MiTAC International Corp. is a manufacturer of PC/server products, including
workstation, server, storage device, and mobile communications. We follow the
environmental plea of the European Union, including WEEE (Directive on the Waste
Electronics and Electrical Equipment) and we focus on design for environment and apply all
concepts of recycling, disassembly, and reusing imports design, i.e. applying ACPI operating
system for power-saving/low-power CPU / module design/ supporting IPMI software and
optimal resources management. As for ROHS (Restriction of Hazardous Sustenance
Directive), we aim at controlling hazardous substances, i.e. Pb, Cd, Hg, Cr6+, PBBs, and
PBDEs, and we started to use green products to introduce design, development review,
supplier management and material acceptance. We also constructed an internal Green
Product website and its SOP to initiate the periodical organizational strategy review in
compliance with the European Union directives. Moreover, we constructed an occupational
health and safety system to minimize work hazards and to protect employees’ health and
safety, and to save some relevant costs. As a result, the improvement of working conditions
has indeed improved employees’ work ethic and their productivity.
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