STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT We highly value our stakeholder relationships, which represent key sources of input and feedback to help enable us to achieve our CSR objectives. We engage with stakeholders in many ways, including all hands meetings, internal communications, management meetings, human capital initiatives, open door policy, wellness programs, training programs, customer scorecards, internal and external audits, health and safety programs, investor engagement, community fundraisers, volunteerism and RBA meetings and events. We recognize that reporting on social, economic, ethical and environmental practices is vital to a successful business. Sanmina defines corporate social responsibility as integrating social, environmental, safety, ethical and human rights concerns in our business operations and our interactions with stakeholders on a voluntary basis. Our customers work hard to maintain an excellent brand image and company reputation and we see this as our job as well. Maintaining excellent At Sanmina, we hold ourselves to a high standard of ethics and integrity. Our Code of Business and Ethics, available in 16 languages, shapes our value and guides our decisions and actions. The Code also establishes data protection, privacy, and intellectual privacy standards. Accordingly, we comply with its legal requirements, which apply to all global employees, subsidiaries and members of the Board of Directors. OPEN DOOR REPORTING Sanmina seeks to provide a positive environment for our employees. We are committed to maintaining healthy employee relations to meet and exceed customer requirements, while maximizing employee development and achievements. We are dedicated to fair treatment and to providing safe, clean and comfortable working conditions for our employees. Our goals include maintaining open two-way communication and promoting a challenging work environment. This enables us to provide a workplace where individuals are treated with dignity and respect and their work contributes to the growth of the company, while allowing them to achieve their personal goals. We stress an Open Door Policy with direct and frequent communication. We encourage resolution of employee matters where an individual or a group’s circumstances are considered and mutual trust and understanding are sincerely expressed. Our multi-lingual reporting system is available to employees, contingent workers and visitors to report an issue or unethical matter that they may encounter at Sanmina. This phone and internet-based resource is administered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, by an independent party. The purpose of using an independent third party provides Sanmina employees and other business partners with safe and stakeholder relationships is very important at Sanmina. ETHICS AND BUSINESS CONDUCT secure reporting. This service is hosted on secure servers and is not part of Sanmina or its company website. Our independent third party provider makes these reports available to a limited number of specific individuals within Sanmina who handle issues and concerns confidentially. Employees can choose to provide their name or remain anonymous, but in either case, there is no threat of retaliation. Confidentiality is maintained to the highest degree possible in order to conduct an efficient investigation. Our employees also have the option to report matters directly to their supervisor, manager, human resource representative, internal audit or legal. A list of reportable issues is available through our third party provider, but employees are encouraged to report all issues or concerns they encounter including, but not limited to the following: • Discrimination • Harassment • Conflicts of interest • Internal accounting control • Auditing matters LABOR CONDITIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS We monitor and assess labor conditions in all our businesses, especially within our global manufacturing operations. Each factory monitors labor conditions through regular self-assessments that are used to create improvement plans. These assessments help us to continuously improve labor conditions and human rights. We also participate in third party audits. • Security violations • Fraud • Theft • Health or safety issues
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