Company: ADP
Filing Date: 2025-09-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001308179-25-000607
Chunk: 31

Company: AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING INC
Filing Date: 2025-09-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 31
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 person in the transaction and whether the transaction may involve a conflict of interest.

| Automatic Data Processing, Inc. – Proxy Statement   | | 30 |

| Corporate Governance |

Specific types of transactions are excluded from the policy, such as, for example, transactions in which the related person’s interest derives solely from his or her service as a director of another entity that is a party to the transaction. The sibling of Brian Michaud, Executive Vice President, Smart Compliance Solutions & Human Resources Outsourcing, is employed as an associate at the company and received total cash compensation for fiscal year 2025 in excess of $120,000.

| Insider Trading Policy |

Our company maintains an insider trading policyto provide guidelines to all directors, officers, associates and consultants of ADP with respect to trading in ADP securities, as well as the securities of publicly traded companies with whom ADP has a business relationship. The policy prohibits trading by any person while in possession of material non-public information in violation of applicable law and provides for restricted periods and pre-clearance procedures for our directors and officers and certain other specified persons, as well as other related policies and procedures. Our insider trading policy prohibits all of our directors and employees, including our executive officers, from engaging in any hedging or similar transactions involving ADP securities. The policy also prohibits all of our directors and employees, including our executive officers, from holding ADP securities in a margin account or pledging ADP securities as collateral for a loan. We believe that the insider trading policy is reasonably designed to promote compliance with insider trading laws, rules and regulations and listing standards applicable to ADP.

| Availability of Corporate Governance Documents |

Our Corporate Governance Principles and Related Persons Transaction Policy may be viewed online on our corporate website at www.adp.com . To access these documents, click on “Investors,” then “Governance,” and then “Governance Documents.” Our Code of Business Conduct & Ethics and Code of Ethics for Principal Executive Officer and Senior Financial Officers may also be found here. Our insider trading policy is available online on our corporate website at www.adp.com . To access this document, click on “About,” then “Corporate Responsibility,” and then “Ethics.” In addition, these documents are available in print to any stockholder who requests them by writing to Investor Relations at the company’s headquarters.

| Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation |

Ms. Katsoudas and Messrs. Goeckeler, Jones and Powers are the four independent directors who currently sit on the compensation and management development