Supplier Expectations

GE expects suppliers to obey laws that require them to treat workers fairly, respect freedom of association, prohibit discrimination and harassment, provide a safe and healthy working environment, and protect environmental quality.

GE suppliers are expected to:

• Comply with laws and regulations protecting the environment and not adversely affect the local community.
• Provide workers with a safe and healthy workplace.
• Employ workers above the applicable minimum age requirement or the age of 16, whichever is higher.
• Comply with laws and regulations governing wages, hours, days of service and overtime payment for workers.
• Not utilize force, prison or indentured labor, or subject workers to any form of compulsion or coercion.
• Allow their workers to freely choose whether or not to organize or join associations for the purpose of collective bargaining as provided by local law.
• Prohibit physical, sexual or psychological harassment or coercion.
• Assure that workers are hired, paid and otherwise subject to terms and conditions of employment based on their ability to do the job, not on the basis of their personal characteristics such as race, national origin, sex, religion, ethnicity, disability, maternity, age and other characteristics protected by local law (this does not bar compliance with affirmative preferences that may be required by local law).
• Maintain and enforce a Company policy requiring adherence to ethical business practices, including a prohibition on bribery of government officials.
• Respect the intellectual property of others.
• Maintain security measures consistent with international standards for the protection of their operations and facilities against exploitation by criminal or terrorist individuals and organizations.

Expect their suppliers to conform to similar standards.