The Company has established and, as appropriate, timely revised the "Code of Ethical Conduct", " Ethical Corporate Management Best Practice Principles," and "Procedures for Ethical Management and Guidelines for Conduct" approved by the Board of Directors in accordance with regulatory directives from supervisory authorities, which provide high ethical standards for all employees and are disclosed in the Company’s official website in both Chinese and English. In Company management and employee work behavior, it is most important for the Board of Directors and management to adopt the highest standards of integrity and ethics, prohibit bribery, corruption, deception and any other form of improper behavior, and require every employee to perform integrity policy. Anti-corruption and integrity management practices with business partners. Among them, the " Procedures for Ethical Management and Guidelines for Conduct " were newly formulated in 2024 to specifically standardize matters that the Company's personnel should pay attention to when executing business. Its main content coverage is detailed in the anti-corruption and integrity management education and training courses held at the Staff Meeting in 2024.
In order to prevent any unethical conduct, employees must disclose any conduct that has or may have the potential to undermine the Principles, such as an actual or potential conflict of interest. Key employees and senior management must periodically declare their compliance with these Principles. The Company requires all customers, suppliers and partners to declare in writing that they will not engage in any fraudulent or induced unethical conduct in their business dealings with the Company or with management and employees. In addition, the Company also stipulates Article 11 of the Labor code the relevant penalties for violations of ethical management. If an employee commits fraud, embezzlement of public funds, bribes or commissions, the Company may terminate the employment relationship without notice and may claim damages according to law, and in serious cases, they may be dismissed from office.
Directors, managers, employees, appointees, and actual controllers of the Company should fulfill their duty of care as good managers, supervise the Company to prevent dishonest behavior, and continuously review and improve the effectiveness of its implementation to ensure the implementation of the integrity management policy. To strengthen the management of integrity management, the Executive Office under the Sustainable Development Committee is responsible for formulating and supervising the implementation of the integrity management policy and prevention plan, mainly handling the following matters, and regularly (at least once a year) reporting the results of operations to the board of directors, assisting the board of directors in evaluating whether the company's established integrity management prevention measures are effectively operating. On January 13, 2025, the Board of Directors completed the report on the implementation of integrity management for the year 2024. To promote the code of conduct for integrity to all employees, the concept of integrity and honesty is conveyed to colleagues and partners through advocacy, communication, and training courses from time to time, jointly implementing the principles of integrity management.
In order to promote the ethical code of conduct to all employees, Weikeng communicates the concepts of honesty and ethics to colleagues and partners through advocacy, communication, and training courses from time to time, so as to jointly implement the principles of ethical management.
Ethical corporate management principles:
The following acts may not be committed
Publicize anti-corruption and ethical management with the Board of Directors, managers, and all employees:
Implementation Situation for the Year 2024:
Title | Name | Training hours | Training date | Training institution | Training course |
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Director | Hu, Chiu-Chiang (@Douglas Hu) |
3 | 2024/03/12 | Taiwan Corporate Governance Association | The International Trends and Experiences in Ethical Corporate Management and Senior Management Accountability Systems Sharing |
3 | 2024/08/27 | Taiwan Corporate Governance Association | Discussing Integrity Management and Anti-Corruption from a Sustainable Governance Perspective | ||
Director | Chi, Ting-Fang (@Stan Chi) |
3 | 2024/03/12 | Taiwan Corporate Governance Association | The International Trends and Experiences in Ethical Corporate Management and Senior Management Accountability Systems Sharing |
3 | 2024/08/27 | Taiwan Corporate Governance Association | Discussing Integrity Management and Anti-Corruption from a Sustainable Governance Perspective | ||
Representative of Juristic Person Director | Chen, Cheng-Fong (@Eric Chen) |
3 | 2024/03/12 | Taiwan Corporate Governance Association | The International Trends and Experiences in Ethical Corporate Management and Senior Management Accountability Systems Sharing |
Independent Director | Wang, Chien-Chih (@Jeffrey Wang) (Elected at the shareholder meeting on June 20, 2024) |
3 | 2024/10/04 | Securities & Futures Institute | 2024 Annual Insider Trading Prevention Advocacy Conference |
Corporate Governance Officer | Chou, Kan-Lin(@Fama Chou) | 3 | 2024/03/12 | Taiwan Corporate Governance Association | The International Trends and Experiences in Ethical Corporate Management and Senior Management Accountability Systems Sharing |
3 | 2024/08/27 | Taiwan Corporate Governance Association | Discussing Integrity Management and Anti-Corruption from a Sustainable Governance Perspective |
Date | Promotion sessions | Number of participants | Hours | Course Content |
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2024/01/23 | Staff Meeting | 406 | 0.5 | Explanation of Procedures for Ethical Management and Guidelines for Conduct
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2024/02/01 | Operation Meeting (Executive Management Meeting) |
37 | 0.5 | |
2024/04/02 | Operation Meeting (Executive Management Meeting) |
43 | 0.5 | Operating Procedures For Handling Material Inside Information- Definition, Processing, and Reporting Procedures for Material Decisions/Important Events and Material Contingencies Advocacy and Explanation
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2024/04/25 | Staff Meeting | 325 | 0.5 | |
2024/05/08 | New Employees Training | 8 | 1.0 |
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2024/09/26 | New Employees Training | 20 | 1.0 | |
2024/12/11 | Employee Registration (In-Person + Online Training) |
86 | 1.5 | Ethical Corporate Management Conduct and Professional Ethics (including the prohibition of insider trading) ~ (Lecturer: Legal Consultant Luo, Tian-You, Lawyer). |
2024/12/19 | New Employees Training | 16 | 1.0 |
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2025/03/27 | Operation Meeting (Executive Management Meeting) |
30 | 0.5 | Procedures for Ethical Management and Guidelines for Conduct & short-swing trading vs insider trading |
2025/04/08 | New Employees Training | 15 | 1.0 | Ethical Corporate Management Policy and Practices |
The Company complies with the Company Act, the Securities and Exchange Act, the Business Entity Accounting Act, the Political Donations Act, the Act to Implement United Nations convention against corruption, the Government Procurement Act, the Act on Recusal of Public Servants Due to conflicts of Interest, and other regulations regarding the ethical management of TWSE-listed companies. Furthermore, we have established a code of conduct for Suppliers and a Whistle-blowing System to conduct pre-trade due diligence with upstream and downstream companies and request them to issue integrity commitments according with their actual situations to minimize risks as much as possible. The Company also provides an internal audit supervisor and legal supervisor hotline to receive and submit information regarding conflicts of interest.
Anti-corruption-related contract specifications for the Company and non-vendor suppliers, vendors, customers, etc. are as follows:
As of the end of December 2024, the Company had no corruption incidents.
The Company has established accounting and internal control systems to ensure honest operations. The internal audit supervisor conducts relevant risk assessments based on possible dishonest business practices, includes these items in the annual audit plan for review, and reports the following audit results to the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors:
The Company has established internal and external whistleblower reporting hotlines so that relevant personnel can report to the Company's designated internal auditors and legal personnel to investigate any ethical violations.
Internal whistleblowing mechanism:
External whistleblowing mechanism:
We provide a whistleblowing hotline on the Company's official website: