Employment and the Workplace

• Equal Employment Opportunity/Nondiscrimination
  We believe that all terms and conditions of employment should be based on an individuals ability to do the job and not on the basis of personal characteristics or beliefs. We provide employees with a working environment free of discrimination, harassment, intimidation, or coercion relating directly or indirectly to race, religion, sexual orientation, political opinion, or disability.

• Forced Labour
  We do not use any prison, slave, indentured, or forced labor in the manufacture of any of our products.

• Child Labour
  We do not utilize child labor in the production of any product. We do not employ any person under the age of 15 (or 14 where local law allows), or the age at which compulsory schooling has ended, whichever is greater.

• Hours of Labour
  We maintain reasonable employee work hours based on the limits on regular and overtime hours allowed by local law, or where local law does not limit the hours of work, the regular work week. Overtime, when necessary, is fully compensated according to local law, or at a rate at least equal to the regular hourly compensation rate if there is no legally prescribed premium rate. Employees are permitted reasonable days off (at least one day off in every seven-day period) and leave privileges.

• Compensation
  We fairly compensate our employees by complying with all applicable laws, including minimum wage laws, or the prevailing local industry wage, whichever is higher.

Concern for the Environment

We believe it is our duty to protect the environment and we do this by complying with all applicable environmental laws and regulations.

Ethical Business Practices

• Confidential or Proprietary Information
  We take extra care to keep our customers trust and confidence in us. Thus, we prohibit employees from disclosing confidential or proprietary information outside the company that could be harmful to our clients, or to the company itself. Such information may only be shared with other employees on a need-to-know basis.