Sustainability

Employee Relations

Delta attaches great importance to the care and development of its employees. Despite daunting challenges in the industry, the company strives to launch many comprehensive employee relations programs and it established an employee happiness program based on an integrated 4S strategy in 2020. Delta's strategic direction and 2020 results earned it first place in the 16th CSR Award in the category of Happy Enterprise by Global Views Monthly. Delta's endeavors to implement corporate commitments and employee care was widely recognized by the public.(News link)

Delta also strongly supports talent development. Senior executives regularly review the development of key talents, support the investment of resources for key talent cultivation, and are committed to promoting the global sharing of learning resources.​​​​

Employee Composition

High degree of international talents and gender balance​​

Delta employs over 80,000 people around the world. Its main operating headquarters in Taiwan coordinates strategic development, logistics operations, product development, and marketing business across the globe. Overseas branches are located in the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Japan, mainland China, Thailand, India, Singapore, and other places.

At the end of 2019, Delta's total number of formal employees was 80,545 globally, including 27,514 personnel in professional technical and management units and 53,031 operators (including in production line collaboration), while there were 518 informal employees (temp workers, which were excluded from the statistics below).

Based on the characteristics of the technology industry and the job market, Delta’s management and technical staff are mostly males, but the global overall gender ratio is still balanced. Male employees account for 55% of the total while female employees are 45%; the age structure of its employees tends to be younger, with young people under 30 accounting for 41.1%, 55.4% for those between 30 and 50, and only 3.5% for those who are 50 or older.A high degree of internationalization is one of Delta's features, and employees from diverse cultural backgrounds can be seen working together at different operating sites.

Talent Training and Development

Strong leadership, technical skills, and brand business power​​

In recent years, Delta has actively transformed itself from OEM manufacturing to a brand business and solution provider.To help talents obtain appropriate learning and development resources during the organization's expansion, transformation, and technological upgrading, Delta assists its employees with a smooth transformation through "key talent review in batches," "key talent cultivation in the solution business," and "three strategic key courses."

Delta continues to focus on the three major learning areas: leadership, technical skills, and brand business power as the training direction according to the company's strategy. In terms of learning planning, it has a complete training roadmap. For example, the Dongguan Plant has offered basic, medium and advanced courses required for its 18 position grades, respectively.

In 2019, Delta’s global training expenditure reached US$10,330,748 (including teaching materials, employee training travel expenses, instructors' wages and travel expenses, and global training time input costs), and the average training time per person worldwide was 47 hours.

Human Rights Protection and Management

Total number of courses was 70,435 and 110,403 people were trained​​

To implement the core values of CSR and integrity, Delta revised the Delta Human Rights and Employment Policy in 2019 to provide the basic standard norms and common commitments that all employees should abide by at work and during business activities. The goals include:

  • Diversity of employee composition and anti-discrimination.
  • Prohibition of child labor and prevention of forced labor.
  • Provision of a healthy and safe work environment.
  • Establishment of a global feedback and whistle-blowing channel.

Delta is committed to promoting labor-management communication and a human rights-friendly management. It has not only promoted protections through policy but has established a positive two-way communication mechanism on the implementation side. Delta's global collective bargaining agreement and union coverage rate is 74%, creating a highly participatory work environment. Employees can also express their opinions through diversified communication channels, including regular labor-management meetings and Welfare Committee meetings, employee representative seminars, and employee opinions mailboxes. Delta keeps confidential and handles complaints or incident information carefully to implement a whistle-blowing system appropriately.

To implement the internal review mechanism for labor ethics, various locations around the world have conducted 13 relevant internal assessments and 114 external audits, and adopted various mitigation measures based on risk assessments, including labor, ethics, and management systems. Improving the deficiencies found in the internal reviews ensures that the company's operations comply with local laws and international standards.

Through human rights due diligence, Delta has identified several key human rights issues such as the prohibition of child labor, non-discrimination, prevention of sexual harassment, illegal abuse in the workplace, pregnancy and postpartum care, and employment of disabled employees and indigenous employees, and sets various goals accordingly.

For human rights education and training, Delta promoted the education and training of human rights courses through the learning platform of Academy in 2019, so that all employees could clearly understand their rights and the company's human rights policies. The total number of hours of global human rights education and training courses was 70,435, and 110,403 people were trained.​​​​

  • Employee Welfare

    Global salary adjustment budget is about 3%–5%​​

    Delta is committed to achieving harmonious labor-management relations, improving employees' experience, as well as developing a healthy and happy workplace, and creating a better work-life balance. The strategic guidelines include promoting harmonious two-way communication and creative ideas between labor and management, promoting a healthy workplace, improving the work-life balance for employees, reducing labor disputes, properly managing and recording employees' opinions, and moving towards a faster and more satisfactory quality of response.

    Employee benefits include the provision of competitive salary and benefits, welfare programs superior to what is stipulated by law, long-term incentives to retain employees, and the creation of a LOHAS workplace so that employees can manage and promote health in all aspects, and achieve a work-life balance.

    Delta evaluates the salary levels in the market and economic indicators around the world through an annual salary survey, and makes appropriate adjustments. In 2019, Delta's global salary adjustment budget was around 3%–5% with a focus on the competitiveness of the overall salary of key development talents in R&D and engineering and those with outstanding performance. Delta’s board of directors has established the Remuneration Committee and its organizational rules in accordance with the Regulations Governing the Appointment and Exercise of Powers by the Remuneration Committee of a Company Whose Stock is Listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange or the Taipei Exchange. The board appointed independent director Mr. Tai-Sheng Chao as the convener and chair of the committee. The organizational rules clearly stipulate that the committee's duties are to formulate and regularly review the policies, systems, standards, and structure of directors and managers' performance evaluation and remuneration, and to regularly evaluate and set directors' and managers' remuneration.The committee shall exercise care as a prudent administrator to faithfully perform its duties and present its suggestions to the board of directors for discussion.

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