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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 affects an individual’s employment opportunities.
to work in an atmosphere free from all forms of Some examples of conduct that may constitute
discrimination and harassment. Therefore, it is prohibited harassment include: slurs, jokes,
our policy to prohibit all types of discrimination cartoons, stereotypes, statements, etc. based upon
and harassment, including, but not limited to, categories protected by law.
discrimination or harassment based on: race, color,
creed, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital Specifically, acts considered to constitute sexual
status, sexual orientation, sexual preference, harassment include, but are not limited to,
disability, handicap or any other category protected unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual
by law. This policy extends to each and every level favors and other verbal or physical conduct of a
of our operations. Accordingly, discrimination sexual nature when: (i) submission to such conduct
or harassment - whether by a fellow employee, is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or
a contractor, a visitor, a guest or a member of condition of an individual’s employment; (ii) an
management - will not be tolerated. Activities of individual’s submission to or rejection of such
this nature are unlawful and serve no legitimate conduct is used as a basis for an employment
purpose - they have a disruptive effect on your decision affecting that individual; or (iii) the purpose
ability to perform your job and they undermine the or the effect of such conduct is to substantially
integrity of the employment relationship. interfere with the affected individual’s work
performance or to create an intimidating, hostile
Harassment is verbal or physical conduct relating or offensive work environment. Some examples
to an individual’s race, color, creed, religion, of unwelcome behavior that can be construed as
national origin, sex, age, marital status, sexual sexual harassment include, but are not limited to:
orientation, sexual preference or disability when sexual advances, propositions, sexually suggestive
this conduct: (i) has the purpose or effect of gestures, sexual jokes, touching, physical assault,
creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive sexually explicit or suggestive objects or pictures,
working environment; (ii) has the purpose or effect references to a person’s body parts and/or sexually
of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s explicit conversation. We take allegations of
work performance; or (iii) otherwise adversely discrimination and harassment very seriously.

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