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EFFECTIVE DATE: 01/03/2018 | LAST REVIEWED DATE: 01/03/2018
Open Door Policy and Non-

Retaliation Policy

Owner: Human Resources

Kontoor Brands believes in open communication and expressing diverse, differing ideas as the best
way to collaborate, solve problems and create a winning team. Kontoor Brands wants employees to
express concerns, maintain integrity with colleagues and encourage each other to share ideas that
contribute to the Company’s success.

No employee is penalized for asking a question or voicing a concern in a reasonable, business-like
way. Kontoor Brands encourages employees who have questions or concerns related to work to talk
to their managers. In most cases, the manager is the best person to respond since they understand
employees’ job duties and the context of the concern.

Employees can also talk to:

1. Their manager’s manager or the next management level for their
position;
2. An HR Business Partner;
3. Their department head, division controller or brand Chief Financial Officer
(CFO);
4. Kontoor Brand’s Controller or CFO;
5. Kontoor Brand’s General Counsel or other members of the Law
Department;
6. Kontoor Brand’s Confidential Ethics Helpline.
If an employee’s question or concern relates to accounting, internal controls or auditing, the employee
must contact their division/brand controller or CFO. If the question or concern relates to discrimination
or harassment, including retaliation related to discrimination or harassment protected activity, the
employee should refer to Kontoor Brands’ discrimination and harassment policy complaint procedures.

Employees should submit questions or concerns related to Kontoor Brand’s Code of Conduct,
accounting, internal controls, auditing matters or possible violations of the Code, Kontoor Brands
policies or the law to the Ethics Helpline. The Ethics Helpline is free, confidential and available 24
hours a day, seven days a week. Employees can make reports anonymously, where allowed by law, if
they do not want to be identified.

Visit www.ethics.kontoorbrands.com to find phone numbers by country or to make a report online.

Kontoor Brands strictly prohibits retaliation toward employees for reporting concerns in good faith or for
participating in an internal investigation. If an employee believes they have witnessed or been the
subject of retaliation, they should immediately report the concern.

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