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.
To enforce this policy, we have
conducted a supply chain conflict mineral tracing survey, and
received a 100% response rate of several disclosure levels.
Furthermore, SanDisk has incorporated the conflict mineral aspect
into our existing supplier audit processes. Moving forward, we will
be leveraging the processes and tools resulting from the
Extractives Work Group, which was jointly organized by the
Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) and Global
e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI). SanDisk is actively involved in
the Extractives Work Group, and we participated at the sixth Supply
Chain Workshop held in Arlington, VA, in June 2011. We also support
the industry approach driven by the Work Group to address the
issues of conflict minerals.
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