Baked Products Foods Group

The Human Resources Department is available to answer questions you may have and to provide assistance in many ways. Keeping you informed about the details of personnel policies and the various employee benefit programs is one of its most important responsibilities. For various reasons, the Human Resources Department must maintain up-to-date personnel records for all employees. Your marital status, a new home or mailing address, a different telephone number, new dependents, change in insurance beneficiaries, additional education, whom to notify in case of emergency, etc. are all changes that you can make privately in FLOconnect. FLOconnect is also the way you access your pay statements and PTO accrual balance and update your personal information. Your Human Resources representative can show you how to navigate around FLOconnect and use the services it offers. The Human Resources Department maintains a complete, confidential personnel file covering your status and progress while employed. As required by law, employees have the right to examine and copy any medical records pertaining to them that are on file in the Human Resources Department. However, these medical records, (referred to as “Protected Health Information”) may not be used for any reason other than health plan administration or except as required by law. All other personnel file documentation is the proprietary property of the Company and may not be copied or distributed, except for where legally required. SENIORITY Length of continuous service is what we all know as seniority. The Company recognizes and rewards seniority in many of its policies and benefits. Seniority is considered in promotions and transfers and determines your preference for the purpose of vacation or PTO scheduling and the amount of vacation/PTO and other benefits to which you are entitled. In certain departments where shift work is required, seniority may be used to determine shift preference. In the case of a layoff, seniority will determine who may be recalled, providing the employee is qualified. Achievement awards and other programs also are contingent upon length of service. NEPOTISM & EMPLOYEE DATING The Company may hire relatives of current employees; however, members of immediate family may not be employed in the following situations: • If one employee would have supervisory authority over another • If one employee would be responsible for auditing or evaluating the other • In any other situation that would create an actual conflict of interest, reasonably foreseeable charges of favoritism, or possible disruption to the workplace This policy applies equally with regard to hiring, transfers, and promotions. “Immediate family” includes parents, brothers, sisters, husbands, wives, children, grandparents, grandchildren, and in-laws. This policy also applies to those employees who are determined to have a close personal relationship. If an employee marries or develops a close personal relationship with another employee in violation of this policy, management will investigate the possibility of transferring one or both people to other suitable positions. If no transfer is available, or if either employee objects to a transfer, the employees involved will be permitted to determine which