Company: CVBF
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-051966
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Company: CVB FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 10
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 our associates. For example, Citizens Business Bank has developed a workplace violence plan and associated protocols, and our Human Resources Department conducts annual training sessions designed to help our associates understand how to protect themselves from potential workplace violence threats or incidents. Starting July 1, 2024, under SB 553, workplace violence prevention plans became mandatory for virtually every employer in California.

In addition, our senior leadership team, with the support of our Board of Directors, continues to develop strategies and actions designed to address key risks posed to the Company by health and safety-related issues. These key risks have at times included (i) associate and workplace health and safety issues resulting from Citizens Business Bank’s need to remain open and available to our customers as an essential business during the COVID-19 pandemic, and (ii) additional cybersecurity and data security risks arising from our implementation of remote work capabilities for a significant number of our associates during the pandemic and beyond. Our Board, executive leadership team and associates continue to work together to seek to ensure that Citizens Business Bank and our banking centers remain available to provide a full range of products and services to our customers and communities in the event of potentially disruptive health and safety-related occurrences.

Workforce Diversity and Engagement

Citizens Business Bank has developed and maintained a diverse and committed workforce that reflects the diversity and distinctiveness of the many communities that we serve throughout the State of California. To this end, we have adopted and implemented a comprehensive Associate Engagement Policy that is designed to guide our investment in the professional recruitment and development of our associates and to foster an inclusive and diverse workplace. Our Associate Engagement Policy in turn is overseen by the Company’s Engagement Committee, which is chaired by our Director of Human Resources and includes our Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), Chief Operating Officer (“COO”), Chief Risk Officer (“CRO”) and General Counsel. Our Director of Human Resources provides updates on our progress on our associate engagement initiatives and metrics to the Company’s Board of Directors on a regular basis.

Day-to-day involvement in the Company’s Engagement Program is headed by our Chief Engagement Officer and Associate Engagement Manager. This Officer serves as the Chair of our Company’s Engagement Council, which consists of approximately fifteen of our associates who represent diverse elements of our employee base and who participate in planning events and activities intended to support the Company’s diversity, engagement and inclusion initiatives and objectives.

The Company’s Associate Engagement Policy provides a framework that we use to create and strengthen our diversity and inclusion policies and practices, including our organizational commitment to active associate involvement, positive workforce and employment practices, and