19.1 Our Commitment to Equal Employment Opportunity

Play-Well is strongly committed to providing an equal employment opportunity for all employees and all applicants for employment.

All employment decisions at our company, including those relating to hiring, promotion, transfers, benefits, compensation, placement, and termination will be made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender orientation, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or any other protected status. If you have a preferred gender pronoun, please notify your manager, or email Lisa Doering, Vice President of Human Resources so that we can communicate your preference to the appropriate members of our management team.

Any employee or applicant who believes that they have been discriminated against in violation of this policy should immediately file a complaint with our Human Resources Department as explained in our Complaint Policy. We encourage you to come forward if you have suffered or witnessed what you believe to be discrimination. We cannot solve the problem until you let us know about it. Play-Well will not retaliate, or allow retaliation, against any employee or applicant who complains of discrimination, assists in an investigation of possible discrimination, or files an administrative charge or lawsuit alleging discrimination.

Managers are required to report any discriminatory conduct or incidents, as described in our Complaint Policy.

Play-Well will not tolerate discrimination against any employee or applicant. We will take immediate and appropriate disciplinary action against any employee who violates this policy.

Harassment can take many forms, including but not limited to touching or other unwanted physical contact, posting offensive cartoons or pictures, using slurs or other derogatory terms, telling offensive or lewd jokes and stories, and sending email messages with offensive content. Unwanted sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and sexually suggestive gestures, jokes, propositions, email messages, or other communications all constitute harassment.