Company: PENG
Filing Date: 2025-12-19
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001616533-25-000073
Chunk: 29

Company: Penguin Solutions, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-19
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 29
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 the recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, compensation, benefits, transfer, and disciplinary action of all employees.

#### Supply Chain Responsibility
Supply Chain Strategy

Penguin Solutions strives to maintain sustainable supply chain practices to promote the highest environmental and social standards throughout our value chain. We work to be trusted supply chain partners by following all applicable laws and hold ourselves accountable against high ethical standards. We joined the RBA over a decade ago and have worked to uphold their code of conduct (the “RBA Code of Conduct”) ever since. Our Supplier Code of Conduct outlines our standards for our suppliers, who we expect to adhere to the practices and principles of the RBA Code of Conduct as well as our Supplier Code of Conduct and conduct periodic reviews to confirm such compliance.

Conflict Minerals

Responsible sourcing is integral to sourcing safe and ethically-created products. Our Conflict Minerals program was created to monitor the sourcing of tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold from the Democratic Republic of Congo and adjoining countries, which are at risk of being mined and sold under the control of armed groups to finance conflict. We leverage resources and guidance from RBA’s Responsible Mining Initiative (“RMI”), including having suppliers complete the RMI Conflict Minerals Reporting Template annually.

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Human Rights

Penguin Solutions seeks to respect human rights in our business practices and to contribute to prosperity globally through our products and our services and by providing a workplace that promotes meaningful work and growth. Our expectations are reflected in our Supplier Code of Conduct. For example, we do not allow any forms of forced labor, child labor, or bonded labor and leverage the standards of the International Labour Organization in defining these terms. Additionally, we require that non-exempt employees do not work over 40 hours without added compensation. We expect all suppliers to adhere to our Supplier Code of Conduct to promote accountability for human rights violations, including forced or involuntary labor, child labor, unfair wages and benefits, unfair working hours, discrimination, freedom of association, health and safety concerns, and conflict minerals.

Through the adoption of the RBA Code and through our own Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, we aim to align our efforts to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the UN Global Compact, the International Labour Organization’s International Labour Standards, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.

#### Community Engagement
Throughout the world, we engage locally to make a positive impact in our communities by encouraging employees to