EEO Statement

Harcourt, Inc., provides equal employment opportunities to all of our employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, veteran status, handicap or any other basis prohibited by law. Our policy is to carry out programs of affirmative action, to make equal opportunity a reality. This policy is required by law, but it also represents our Company's moral commitment.

It is our policy to:

• Recruit, hire, train, promote, and compensate persons in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class under any relevant state law.

• Base decisions on employment that further the principle of Equal Employment Opportunity.

• Ensure that promotion decisions are in accord with principles of Equal Employment Opportunity by imposing only valid requirements for promotional opportunities.

• Ensure that all personnel actions, such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, returns from layoff, social and recreation programs, company-sponsored training, and education and tuition assistance, will be administered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class under any relevant state law.

It is our goal to recruit applicants from all ethnic groups that reside within our recruiting area and to achieve a work force mixture that reasonably reflects the minority and female percentages within our recruiting population. Execution of this policy requires vigorous recruiting efforts to identify and attract minority and female applicants, as well as persons with a disability, disabled veterans, and veterans of the Vietnam era, who meet our qualifications. Our policy fully embraces equality of opportunity for all applicants/employees with respect to all employment matters.