Harrell’s Employee Handbook, September 2023
CODE OF ETHICS Harrell's requires its employees to conduct its business honestly and ethically wherever we operate in the world. We will constantly improve the quality of our services, products, and operations. We expect our employees to maintain a reputation for honesty, fairness, respect, responsibility, integrity, trust, and sound business judgment. No illegal or unethical conduct will be tolerated. Employees shall not compromise our principles for short-term advantage. The ethical performance of Harrell's is the sum of the ethics of everyone who works here. Thus, all employees are expected to adhere to high standards of personal integrity. Employees shall avoid using their company contacts, private business, or personal interests at the expense of the company, its clients, or affiliates. The company’s employees must never permit their personal interests to conflict, or even appear to conflict, with the interests of the company, its clients, or affiliates. Employees must be particularly careful to avoid representing Harrell’s in any transaction with others with whom there is any outside business affiliation or relationship. As part of the consideration employees provide to the Company in exchange for employment and continued employment with the Company, employees agree and acknowledge that all Trade Secrets/Confidential Information developed, created, or maintained by employees shall remain at all times the sole property of the Company, and that if the Company’s Trade Secrets/Confidential Information are disclosed to a competing business or otherwise used in an unauthorized manner, such disclosure or use would cause immediate and irreparable harm to the Company and would give a competing business an unfair business advantage against the Company. Employees shall not, except as required in the conduct of the Company’s business or as authorized in writing by the Company, disclose or use during the term of employment or subsequent thereto any Trade Secrets/Confidential Information. Furthermore, all records, files, plans, documents, and the like relating to the business of the Company that employees prepare, use, or come in contact with shall be and shall remain the sole property of the Company and shall not be copied without written permission of the Company and shall be returned to the Company on termination or cessation of employment, or at the Company’s request at any time. Employees must seek to report all information accurately and honestly and as otherwise required by applicable reporting requirements. Employees will obey all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and act with respect and responsibility towards others in all of their dealings. Employees must promptly disclose unethical, dishonest, fraudulent, and illegal behavior or any violation of company policies and procedures directly to management. Violating the Code of Ethics can result in discipline, including possible termination. The degree of discipline imposed may be influenced by the existence of voluntary disclosure of any ethical violation and whether or not the violator cooperated in any subsequent investigation. If an employee ever has any doubt about whether their conduct or that of another meets the company’s ethical standards or compromises the Company’s reputation, the employee should discuss it with their supervisor or a member of the Human Resources team.
Remember that good ethics is good business!
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