Labor and Ethics
SanDisk operates its business with
uncompromising integrity as expressed in our Worldwide Code of
Business Conduct and Ethics. Our high standard for SanDisk's
operations is expressed in a number of ways:
- We treat our employees with dignity and respect. This
commitment applies to SanDisk employees and non-employee contract
and temporary workers worldwide.
- We maintain a workplace that will not tolerate unlawful
harassment and discrimination.
- We ensure that compensation paid to our employees and
non-employee contract and temporary workers complies with all
applicable wage laws, including those relating to minimum wages,
working hours, compensation for overtime hours worked, and legally
mandated benefits.
- We foster an environment where employees are encouraged to
communicate openly with management regarding workplace issues
without fear of reprisal, intimidation or harassment. We respect
the rights of employees to freely and voluntarily associate as they
choose, to seek representation, and to join or not join labor
unions as permitted by law.
- We ensure through active engagement with our vendors that no
forced, bonded, indentured or involuntary prison labor -- including
child labor -- is used by our businesses.
Conflict
Minerals
SanDisk has established a
procurement policy requiring our suppliers to perform due diligence
to ensure tungsten, tantalum, tin and gold derived from regions
where human rights violations are alleged, such as in the
Democratic Republic of Congo, are not used in our production
parts.
SanDisk has taken specific steps to
enforce this policy:
- We have conducted a supply chain conflict mineral tracing
survey, and received a 100% response rate of several disclosure
levels.
- We have incorporated the conflict mineral aspect into our
existing supplier audit and new supplier selection processes.
- We are actively involved in the Extractives Work Group, which
was jointly organized by the Electronic Industry Citizenship
Coalition (EICC) and Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI), and
we participated at the sixth Supply Chain Workshop held in
Arlington, VA, in June 2011.
- We will be leveraging the processes and tools resulting from
the Extractives Work Group.
- We also support the industry approach driven by the Work Group
to address the issues of conflict minerals and efforts to establish
an international regime that would enable companies to include in
their products materials that are certified to come from
"conflict-free" sources.
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