Anti-Human-Trafficking Policy
Purpose
Movius adheres to applicable United States federal laws which prohibit trafficking in persons, including the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 200 922 U.S.C. 7102) and FAR 48 CFR § 52.222-50.
Movius is committed to a work environment that is free from human trafficking and slavery, which for purposes of federal U.S. policy includes forced labor and unlawful child labor. Movius will not tolerate or condone human trafficking or slavery in any part of our global organization.
Movius’ employees, subsidiaries, contractors, subcontractors, vendors, suppliers, partners, and others through whom Movius conducts business must avoid complicity in any practice that constitutes trafficking in persons or slavery.
Scope
This policy applies to all personnel employed by or engaged to provide services to Movius, including, but not limited to, employees, officers, and temporary employees of Movius and Movius’s U.S. and international subsidiaries and our strategic partners (for ease of reference throughout this policy, “employees”).
Movius employees are responsible for reading, understanding, and complying with this policy. Movius is sharing this document with you and will maintain it in our company website in order to observe compliance with this policy. If you have any questions or concerns relating to this policy, consult the Company’s Legal or Human Capital Management department.
Procedures
Report any conduct that you believe to be a violation of this policy to Movius ’s Legal or Human Capital Management Department. Reports may also be made through Movius’ Ethics email at ethics@Moviuscorp.com or via the internet at the email hotline at website: www.movius.ai, which allows anonymous reporting as permitted by applicable law.
Disciplinary Actions
Movius will not tolerate retaliation against an employee for reporting a concern in good faith or for cooperating with a compliance investigation, even when no evidence is found to substantiate the report.
Any violation of this policy, including failure to report actual or suspected misconduct, may be grounds for disciplinary action, up to and including termination. Movius and its subsidiaries have the exclusive right to interpret this policy regarding their respective employees.
Violation of the U.S. Government’s policy against human trafficking may also result in civil damages and criminal prosecution of responsible individuals.
Summary of U.S. Government Policy of Prohibiting Trafficking in Persons
U.S. Government policy prohibits trafficking in persons and slavery. Government contractors and their employees, subcontractors, subcontractor employees, and agents must not engage in any practice that constitutes trafficking in persons or slavery. This includes, but is not limited to, the following activities:
- Engaging in any form of trafficking in persons by using force, fraud or coercion to compel a person into commercial sex acts or labor or services against his or her will.
- Engaging in the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purposes of a commercial sex act, in which the commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age (22 USC § 7102).
- Engaging in the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purposes of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery, (22 USC § 7102).
Additional references:
https://humantraffickinghotline.org/en/human-trafficking/federal-law
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-48/chapter-1/subchapter-H/part-52/subpart-52.2/section-52.222-50
https://www.state.gov/what-is-trafficking-in-persons/