SEKO - Global Policies & Employee Handbook 2019

SECTION 1 SEKO’S CORE VALUES

SEKO is committed to creating a positive and fulfilling work environment and recognizes our employees’ need for a healthy work-life balance. To this end, all employees are expected to abide by SEKO’s Core Values of: Respect, Customer Focus, Integrity, Teamwork, and Work Hard/Play Hard. SECTION 2 EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY SEKO is an equal opportunity employer and its policy is to promote equal employment opportunity. This means SEKO will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, sexual preference, mental or physical disability, or any other status protected by law. Equal employment opportunity will be extended to all persons, in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including recruitment, hiring, upgrading, training, promotion, transfer, discipline, reductions in force and termination. SECTION 3 HARASSMENT

SEKO believes that our employees should be able to work in an atmosphere free from all forms of discrimination and harassment. Therefore, it is our policy to prohibit all types of discrimination and harassment, including, but not limited to, discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, sexual preference, disability, handicap or any other category protected by law. This policy extends to each and every level of our operations. Accordingly, discrimination or harassment - whether by a fellow employee, a contractor, a visitor, a guest or a member of management - will not be tolerated. Activities of this nature are unlawful and serve no legitimate purpose - they have a disruptive effect on your ability to perform your job and they undermine the integrity of the employment relationship. Harassment is verbal or physical conduct relating to an individual’s race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, sexual preference or disability when this conduct: (i) has the purpose or effect of creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment; (ii) has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s work performance; or (iii) otherwise adversely

affects an individual’s employment opportunities. Some examples of conduct that may constitute prohibited harassment include: slurs, jokes, cartoons, stereotypes, statements, etc. based upon categories protected by law. Specifically, acts considered to constitute sexual harassment include, but are not limited to, unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when: (i) submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual’s employment; (ii) an individual’s submission to or rejection of such conduct is used as a basis for an employment decision affecting that individual; or (iii) the purpose or the effect of such conduct is to substantially interfere with the affected individual’s work performance or to create an intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment. Some examples of unwelcome behavior that can be construed as sexual harassment include, but are not limited to: sexual advances, propositions, sexually suggestive gestures, sexual jokes, touching, physical assault, sexually explicit or suggestive objects or pictures, references to a person’s body parts and/or sexually explicit conversation. We take allegations of discrimination and harassment very seriously.

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