Corporate Ethics

Political Activities

•Business entities shall not engage in lobbying, or political spending activities that: receive government subsidies, government contracts, hire veterans, receive tax credits, receive tax abatements, are considered tax exempt, generate over $100,000 in profits per year, or any combination of the above

•Business entities shall not endorse, support, or publicly coordinate with any candidates, or public officials outside of standard business practices such as during contract negotiations, contract work, or similar

Worker’s Rights

•Business entities shall abide by the Worker’s Bill of Rights

Whistleblowing

•Whistleblowing activities shall be defined as follows:

•An employee who brings up ethical, safety, health or legal concerns to their leadership, verbally, or in writing, and is ignored, denied, reprised, or retaliated against, whether verbally, writing, or another recorded format

•Whistleblowing activities shall be reported to the Department of Labor, and may be anonymous, but must include detailed information of the ethical, safety, health or legal concerns

•Reports of ethical, safety, health or legal concerns, submitted to the DoL must be investigated within 30 days of receipt

•Investigations shall be unannounced

•Investigations shall be thorough

•Investigations shall prove or disprove ethical, safety, health or legal concerns in a reasonable amount of time

•Instigators cannot be denied access to documents, procedures, blue prints, or other official records during their investigation’

•Investigations may use evidence found of additional wrong doing to take further action against business entities, without incurring ex post facto provisions

Legal Action

•Employees of any business entity may file, or seek to file lawsuits against their employer whether or not they are directly impacted by the ethical, safety, health or legal concerns

•The plaintiff may seek damages and compensation for filing legal action in addition to any other remedies that the lawsuit may offer or involve

•Business entities may place employees who are filing legal action against them, on a paid administrative leave, however, they may not hinder, nor deny access to information they would normally have had access to in pursuit of their case.

•The employee shall be accompanied by their legal representative, and a legal representative of the business entity when accessing these records, documents, or other media

•This may be done in addition to any discovery actions taken during the legal process

Wage Caps

•Corporations shall not pay any employee greater than 20x the lowest earning employee, including bonuses, benefits packages, or salary

Customer Data Collection, and Sale

•Effective immediately all customer data collected by any individual or entity shall remain under the control, and confidence of the collecting party, or temporary

•Failure to protect private data shall result in espionage charges

•Sale of personal data shall result in espionage charges, violation of privacy charges, and violation of HIPAA

Warranty and Returns

•All products and services shall be warrantied for a period of 12 months, or less with sufficient evidence that products or services have a lesser lifespan such as industrial wear parts, products that undergo extreme pressure or heat, etc.

•Warranty Returns of goods shall always be at the expense of the industry

•Warranty Returned Goods shall restart the warranty period of the newly received good upon receipt of the product

•Warranty Returned Goods must be new, and not refurbished

•Warranty Claims shall include a full refund in lieu of exchange for the duration of the Warranty period, without requiring the consumer to provide any reason or detail beyond proof of function if good has been used

Manufactured Obsolescence, Quality of Goods and Services

•Industry standards for product development shall immediately cease manufactured obsolescence in their business strategy

•This policy does not mandate continuous quality improvement, but does render illegal the act of manufacturing inefficiencies, weaknesses, or other deficiencies into a product with the express intent of capitalizing off of them

•This policy does not insinuate that genuine advancement in technology or process will not show significant improvements over time

•All Industries shall seek to achieve a minimum lifespan of goods and services for a period of 12 months where those goods and services are not under extreme conditions

•Goods and services that are dedicated to dealing with extreme conditions shall seek continuous improvement to a preferred minimum of 12 months of guaranteed lifespan

Anti-Trust Enforcement

•No US Industry shall be allowed to control more than 20% of a given market share at the national, state, or local level

•Those that currently do shall be split apart and turned into S corps to ensure a lesser risk of re-monopolization

•Hostile Takeovers, deliberate undercutting of local businesses shall be illegal

Price Gouging Prevention

•All products and services shall not exceed a 50% markup regardless of supply

•All pharmaceuticals, and medical devices shall not exceed a 1% markup, regardless of supply

•Any efforts to manipulate supply, or create artificial scarcity shall be treated Market Manipulation, Manipulating the value of the Dollar, and related charges

•Any and all violations of unfair, or deceptive trade practices law shall be redefined as criminal rather than civil charges and shall be the top priority of related law enforcement, and regulating agencies to enforce