FairPoint Communications 2005 Annual Report Download - page 218

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The Company strives to provide each employee with a safe and healthful work environment. Each employee has a responsibility for
maintaining a safe and healthy workplace for all employees by following safety and health rules and practices and reporting accidents, injuries and unsafe
equipment, practices or conditions.
Violence and threatening behavior are not permitted and the use of illegal drugs or alcohol in the workplace will not be tolerated. Employees
should report to work in condition to perform their duties, free from the influence of illegal drugs or alcohol.
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The purpose of this policy is to set forth and convey the Company’s requirements in managing records, including all recorded information
regardless of medium or characteristics. Records include paper documents, CDs, DVDs, computer hard disks, email, floppy disks, microfiche, microfilm or
all other media. The Company requires honest and accurate recording and reporting of information in order to make responsible business decisions.
Many employees, officers and directors regularly use business expense accounts, which must be documented and recorded accurately. If
you are not sure whether a certain expense is legitimate, ask your supervisor or contact the Company’s Controller. Please refer to the Company’s business
travel policy for further information regarding business expenses.
The Company’s responsibilities to its shareholders and the investing public require that all of the Company’s books, records, accounts
and financial statements must be maintained in reasonable detail, must appropriately reflect the Company’s transactions and must conform both to applicable
legal requirements and to the Company’s system of internal controls and generally accepted accounting practices and principles. No one should rationalize or
even consider misrepresenting facts or falsifying records. Unrecorded or “off the books” funds or assets should not be maintained unless permitted by
applicable law or regulation.
Business records and communications often become public, and we should avoid exaggeration, derogatory remarks, guesswork, or
inappropriate characterizations of people and companies that can be misunderstood. This applies equally to e-mail, internal memos, and formal reports.
Records should always be retained or destroyed according to the Company’s record retention policies. No record or document shall be destroyed which is the
subject of a subpoena or other legal process or if there is a reasonable belief that litigation proceedings or government investigative proceedings are likely to
occur and it is anticipated that such record or document is relevant to such proceedings. All employees are expected to comply with all federal, state and
industry-specific record retention rules and requirements as well as the Company’s record retention policies.
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Employees, directors and officers must maintain the confidentiality of confidential information entrusted to them by the Company or its
customers, except when disclosure is authorized by the CEO or CFO or required by laws or regulations. Confidential information includes all non-public
information that might be of use to competitors, or harmful
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