Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001518715-25-000026
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Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 2
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 strategic initiatives.  

By treating our employees with appreciation for their individuality and with respect for their service, our employees demonstrate increased job satisfaction, a higher level of trust in leadership, and an increased sense of belonging within the Company. Our employees find increased job satisfaction, which we find translates to increased performance and a greater capacity for customer service.

Our culture 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 more.    

Compensation of Employees

As part of our goal of providing high-quality banking and financial services to our customers while creating a positive impact in the local communities in which we do business, we designed our compensation program with the intention of attracting and retaining highly qualified employees. We use a mix of base salary, cash-based short-term incentive plans and defined contributions to the 401(k) plan for participating employees to incentivize our employees and also provide long-term incentive compensation, preferring equity-based where available, for key employees. Employee performance is considered, evaluated and discussed through regular performance check-ins between manager and direct report. All our employees are eligible to receive a Company match on defined contributions to their 401(k) retirement plan.

We have a variety of group benefit programs designed to provide our employees with health and wellness benefits, financial benefits in the event of planned or unplanned expenses, or losses relating to illness, disability, death, to help plan for retirement, and deal with job-related or personal problems.  

Employee Training and Development

As part of our employee development program, we provide a variety of training and educational opportunities to help our employees stay current on regulatory compliance issues and develop their professional skills. In addition to third party training and education opportunities, we use an online learning management system to create, assign, and track compliance and professional development learning programs across many topical areas such as Banking, mortgage and regulatory education, technology training, public speaking and proactive communication, development of strong customer relationship and customer service skills. 

Employee Community Involvement

HomeStreet is committed to our communities, and as part of that commitment we support the active involvement of our employees in supporting their communities. 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