Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001518715-25-000066
Chunk: 31

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 31
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 our employees are given opportunities to be heard, engaged and involved at work and have meaningful opportunities to collaborate, contribute, and grow in their careers. HomeStreet focuses on recruiting, retaining and promoting employees from diverse backgrounds and who are representative of the people in the communities we serve. By doing so, we believe we are better able to serve our customers and understand their financial needs and goals. HomeStreet’s Culture Committee helps management identify ways to increase and promote opportunities for our employees. The Culture Committee works with management to identify and promote practices that will help us achieve a more inclusive workplace. Our Company also promotes policies and practices to combat harassment, discrimination, retaliation, or disrespectful or other unprofessional conduct based on an individual’s identity, including sex, gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, color, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, age, marital status, and other protected classifications.

Employee Community Involvement

HomeStreet supports the active involvement of our employees in supporting their communities. Employees who donate blood receive one paid day off from work for each donation. Additionally, employees are given time off to volunteer for community organizations, and where employees make a substantial commitment of time to a particular organization, HomeStreet offers an additional financial contribution to those organizations in recognition of the commitment of our employees. We also create active partnerships with hundreds of local organizations, and our employees provide leadership, educational support, hands-on service, expertise and financial support to those organizations. We focus primarily on organizations within the scope of the Community Reinvestment Act that provide support for housing, basic needs and economic development for those of low and moderate income. Our senior management also helps to educate our employees on the importance of our community responsibility focus and strategies.

#### Information Security Risks
The Board oversees the Company’s cyber risk management program through the ERM Committee which is tasked with oversight of risk issues, including cybersecurity and information security risks, and is comprised entirely of independent directors. Our Chief Information and Operations Officer and Chief Information Security Officer, who oversee our information security program and our vendor management program, have led the way

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to develop programs and policies designed to address and respond to security incidents and cyberattacks in order to protect and preserve the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information owned by, controlled by or in possession of the Company and our vendors, including the Company’s proprietary, sensitive and confidential information and the information of our customers, employees and affiliates. These programs and policies are reviewed and updated on a regular basis, and the implementation of such programs and