BL Companies | Employee Handbook | 2024

not be used in the office or for lengthy conference calls. The Company may require reimbursement for personal use of the Company cell phone. Hands-free devices must be used where required by law and should be used whenever driving. ▪ Employees may not use a hand-held cell phone while operating a Company vehicle, a rental vehicle used for Company business or when driving a personal vehicle on Company business whether the vehicle is in motion or stopped at a traffic light. This includes, but is not limited to, answering or making phone calls, engaging in phone conversations, and reading or responding to emails, instant messages, and text messages. ▪ If Employees need to use their phones, they must pull over safely to the side of the road or another safe location. Vehicles Company vehicles are available for use by employees for Company-related travel. A gasoline credit card is available for each vehicle and employees are required to maintain the gas level for the next driver. If more than one (1) employee needs a vehicle and none are available, the employee will be reimbursed for mileage in a personal vehicle at the current Internal Revenue Service rate. However, if the Company vehicle is available and the

employee opts not to use it, he or she will not be reimbursed for mileage. Please be advised that it is our Company policy that pets are not allowed in any of our BL Company vehicles.

ETHICAL PRACTICES Confidentiality

Employees sometimes have access to confidential, secret and proprietary information learned or acquired through their association with the Company. Such employees must use and/or disclose such information only for the performance of their jobs. Particular care must be taken to keep confidential any information of possible value to competitors or potentially damaging to clients and their competitors, or information received under an express or implied confidentiality obligation or information received from third parties. Employees must treat all information about the Company’s clients, their projects and other business information as confidential and not disclose it to, or discuss it with, anyone outside the Company. In many instances, the identity of a client or even the fact that a project is being considered at a particular site is extremely sensitive. Confidential information about the Company and/or clients should never be shared with anyone outside the office.

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