CREA Employee Handbook (Updated 2026)

At certain times CREA, LLC may require you to work overtime. We will attempt to give as much notice as possible in this instance. However, advance notice may not always be possible. Failure to work overtime when requested or working unauthorized overtime may result in discipline, up to and including discharge. Unless otherwise required or exempted by law, overtime pay of one and one-half times your regular rate of pay is paid for any hours worked in excess of 40 hours in a workweek. Holidays, vacation days, and sick leave days do not count as time worked for computing overtime. Accommodations for Nursing Mothers CREA, LLC will provide nursing mothers reasonable break time to express milk for their infant child for up to one year following the child's birth. The break time must, if possible, run concurrently with any break time already provided. If you are nonexempt, record the start and end time for any time taken that does not run concurrently with normally scheduled rest periods. Break time may be unpaid as permissible under applicable law. You must make reasonable efforts not to disrupt Company operations. You are encouraged to discuss the length and frequency of these breaks with your manager. The Company will not discriminate or retaliate against employees who express breast milk in the workplace in accordance with this policy. Trade Secrets and Inventions Confidentiality and Nondisclosure of Trade Secrets As a condition of employment and consistent with your duty of loyalty to the Company, CREA, LLC employees are required to protect the confidentiality of Company trade secrets, proprietary information, and confidential commercially-sensitive information (i.e. financial or sales records/reports, marketing or business strategies/plans, product development, customer lists, patents, trademarks, etc.) related to the Company. Access to this information should be limited to a "need to know" basis and should not be used for personal benefit, disclosed, or released without prior authorization from management. If you have information that leads you to suspect that employees are sharing such information in violation of this policy and/or competitors are obtaining such information, you are required to inform your manager or Human Resources or appropriate department. Violation of this policy may result in disciplinary action up to and including termination, and may subject the violator to civil liability. General Policies Access to Personnel and Medical Records Files CREA, LLC maintains separate medical records files and personnel files for all employees. Files containing medical records are stored separate and apart from any business-related records in a safe, locked, inaccessible location. The medical file is the repository for sensitive and confidential information related to an individual's health, health benefits, health-related leave and/or accommodations, and benefits selections and coverage. Medical records are kept confidential in compliance with applicable laws and access is on a "need- to-know" basis only. Supervisors and others in management may have access to your personnel file for possible employment- related decisions. If you wish to review your personnel or medical records file, you must give the Company reasonable notice. Inspection must occur in the presence of a Company representative. All requests by an outside party for information contained in your personnel file will be directed to the Human Resources department, which is the only department authorized to give out such information.

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