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Conscience employers set up filial piety leave, children leave to the parents of employees’ children

2021-08-16T00:14:03.034Z


Some companies attach great importance to employees, and bosses value employees’ sense of belonging more than profit. They provide filial piety leave, child leave, emergency leave, and extended maternity leave. Employees with family members in the Mainland are allowed to go north for up to two months, and only need to be at home during the period.


Some companies attach great importance to employees, and bosses value employees’ sense of belonging more than profit. They provide filial piety leave, child leave, emergency leave, and extended maternity leave. Employees with family members in the mainland are allowed to go north for up to two months, during which they only need to work from home (WFH) That's it.

The director of the Jiafei Co., Ltd., which has so many fakes, said, "Don’t worry about it." He believes that employers will compare their hearts to themselves and that "colleagues will be more diligent." Reluctant to leave, they have an average age of 15 years, with the longest being 27 years.


The Equal Opportunities Commission organized the first "Equal Opportunity Employers Recognition Program" this year to encourage organizations from all walks of life to strive to achieve gender equality, equality in meeting and inclusiveness, equality in family status, and equality in race.

Jiafei is one of the companies that has been recognized as an "Equal Opportunity Employer" and also won the Outstanding SME Award.


Jiafei Co., Ltd. is a small and medium enterprise with more than 20 employees and an average age of about 15 years.

Director Mok Qiwen said that it is important to make employees have a sense of belonging (photo by Ou Jiale)

Three days of paid leave a year to accompany the family's maternity leave is one week longer than the government regulations

The business of Jiafei Co., Ltd. includes accounting, business consulting, taxation, and human resources management. The company has only more than 20 employees. Due to outstanding performance in the field of family position equality, it is an outstanding SME in the "Equal Opportunity Employer Recognition Program" prize.

Since 2012, Jiafei has formulated a family-friendly written policy with a variety of paid holidays: if employees can take "filial piety leave" to accompany their family members aged 65 or above to see a doctor, they can apply for up to three days a year, that is, if the employee takes half-day leave , Can apply for 6 times in total; employees with children can also apply for up to three days of paid leave a year to attend the parents’ day or to accompany the doctor.

The government approved the extension of maternity leave to 14 weeks earlier this month, and Jiafei has extended it to 15 weeks internally. The company also has milk collection rooms and refrigerators for female employees to store breast milk.

Compared with the annual lucky money given to employees' children, parents and partners, the children of employees who are 18 years of age or younger can benefit from books and books.

In addition, employees such as the death of their father or mother can take 2 to 4 days of bereavement leave based on their seniority.

Hong Jieyi, a human resources consultant at Jiafei Co., Ltd., said that welfare expenditures including paid holidays accounted for 5 to 8% of all wages. She believed that there would be no additional expenditures, and it was only because colleagues shared the mutual understanding.

(Photo by Ou Jiale)

The company's human resources consultant Hong Jieyi said that recently it is considering optimizing this policy to expand the scope to family members who live with but are not directly related, such as father-in-law and mother-in-law.

She pointed out that all related benefits accounted for 5 to 8% of the overall salary expenditure. She believed that arranging paid vacations did not actually cost much extra. ".

Flexible work arrangements help retain talents with an average age of 15 years

Jiafei provides flexible working hours and locations, allowing employees to apply for shorter working hours or shorter working weeks.

Colleague Carman has to take care of the children in the kindergarten class, but the school is divided into early and afternoon classes, so each new semester needs to apply to the company for different working hours; another employee’s family lives in the mainland, and the epidemic has made it more troublesome to travel between the two places. Allow him to stay in the mainland for two months while working at home.

Mok Yiwen believes that the best possible cooperation can be used to retain talents, and will try to coordinate, referring to an average of 15 years for employees, and 27 years for the most senior employees.

Mo Qiwen, director of Jiafei Co., Ltd., said that profit is not important, and he understands that colleagues have to deal with family affairs, and hopes that employees will be happy at work without too much pressure.

(Photo by Ou Jiale)

Director: Don’t worry, I hope employees have a sense of belonging

Director Mok Yee-wen said that he didn’t mind the profit, saying that the cost was actually not high. He understood that employees need time to deal with family affairs. Be considerate as much as possible." She hopes employees have a sense of belonging, "The benefits are not special, they are worth it, thinking that reworking is like returning to the house."

Equal Opportunities Recognize 160 organizations as "Equal Opportunities Employers"

Equal Opportunities organized the first "Equal Opportunity Employers Recognition Scheme" at the end of last year (click to see the list of winners). It wants to promote equal opportunities policies and measures to encourage more employers to adopt them. The scope includes gender equality, equal inclusion of the disabled, and families. Job equality, and racial equality and communion.

The program received a total of 420 applications, and 160 organizations were eventually selected as "Equal Opportunities Employers". Among them, 14 organizations with outstanding performance in all four areas won the gold award; another 10 organizations won the Outstanding SME Award. Including Jiafei Co., Ltd.

The award ceremony of the plan was held in May. In his speech, EOC Chairman Zhu Minjian said that he would like to see the active participation of institutions and efforts to build an equal and inclusive workplace. However, these institutions are still unswervingly affected by the impact," describing them as encouraging.

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