Equal Employment Opportunity

The Ralph J. Meyer Company is committed to prohibiting discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin or handicapped status. The affirmative action program is designed to ensure adequate employment opportunities for women and minorities, including but not limited to employee selection, promotion, training and development, compensation, termination and disciplinary action.

While the company does not use or advocate quotas, it is committed to an annual review of the status and proportion of minority and female employees in relation to industry wide averages, and the composition of the local labor force.

Each company supervisor, manager and executive is responsible for the enforcement of Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action policies and practices. Any complaints or charges of discrimination made by employees should be referred to David Meyer.

Sexual Harassment Policy

The Ralph J. Meyer Company is committed to providing all employees with an environment that is free from sexual harassment in any form. To that end, it is the policy of Ralph J. Meyer Company that no employee or representative may engage in sexual harassment.

Sexual harassment refers to behavior of a sexual nature that is unwelcome and personally offensive to the recipient. Sexual harassment is a form of misconduct that destroys the integrity of the employment relationship. Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other physical or verbal conduct of a sexual nature is termed “sexual harassment” when:

• Submission to such conduct is made explicitly or implicitly a condition of an individual’s employment;
• Submission to or rejection of such conduct is used as a basis for an employment decision effecting the person;
• Submission or rejection of such conduct is used as a basis for making any favorable or unfavorable decision affecting the person;
• The harassment has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with work performance or creating an environment, which is intimidating, hostile or offensive to the employee or any representative.

Sexual harassment can occur between individuals of the same or opposite sex. In addition to the behavior described above, sexual harassment may include, but is not limited to:

• Unwanted physical conduct;
• Obscene language;
• Lewd comments about an individual’s sex, sexuality, sexual characteristics, or sexual behavior;
• Sexually oriented propositions;
• Offensive sexually oriented jokes, innuendos or remarks;
• Sexually suggestive comments or obscene gestures;
• The display of sexually explicit pictures, cartoons, computer images or other materials that may be considered offensive to another person;