Company: ADP
Filing Date: 2025-09-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001308179-25-000607
Chunk: 103

Company: AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING INC
Filing Date: 2025-09-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 103
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 its in-depth knowledge of our business, processes and policies. The audit committee, as part of its approval process, considers the potential impact of any proposed work on the independent auditors’ independence.

| 99 | |  Automatic Data Processing, Inc. – Proxy Statement |

| Proposal 3                                                   
 Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm |

At the 2025 Annual Meeting, stockholders will vote on the ratification of the appointment by the audit committee of Deloitte & Touche LLP, as the independent registered public accounting firm to audit the accounts of the company and its subsidiaries for the fiscal year that began on July 1, 2025. Deloitte & Touche LLP has served as our independent auditor since 1968. Deloitte & Touche LLP is a member of the SEC Practice Section of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. A representative of Deloitte & Touche LLP will be present at the Annual Meeting and will have an opportunity to make a statement if she or he desires. She or he will be available to answer appropriate questions.

| Stockholder Approval Required |

The affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares represented in person or by proxy and entitled to vote thereon at the meeting of stockholders is required to ratify Deloitte & Touche LLP’s appointment as the company’s independent auditors for fiscal year 2026. Brokers have the authority to vote shares for which their customers did not provide voting instructions on the ratification of the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP.

| THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECOMMENDS THAT THE STOCKHOLDERS VOTE FOR THE RATIFICATION OF THE APPOINTMENT OF DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP AS THE COMPANY’S INDEPENDENT AUDITORS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2026. |

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Stockholder Proposals and Nominations If a stockholder intends to submit any proposal for inclusion in the company’s proxy statement for the company’s 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders in accordance with Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act, the proposal must be received by the corporate secretary of the company no later than May 28, 2026. To be eligible to submit such a proposal for inclusion in the company’s proxy materials for an annual meeting, the proposal must meet the requirements of the rules of the SEC relating to stockholders’ proposals, including Rule 14a-8, which