Investment In Our People

We offer a broad range of competitive benefits to help employees meet their long-term financial goals, while balancing the demands of work and personal life. Benefits are available to full-time employees and their dependents, including children, spouses and same-sex partners. In addition to our comprehensive healthcare coverage, the following represents highlights from our benefits program.

Health

Clorox offers a comprehensive package of options for health and medical plans.

• Medical (CDHP, Standard PP, Premimum PPO and medical and dependent care reimbursement plans)
• Vision
• Dental
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for professional and confidential counseling services

Disability and Life Insurance

• We offer coverage in a range of areas including life, accidental death and dismemberment, disability, and business-travel accident insurance.

Retirement/Financial Planning

• Cash balance pension plan: Each quarter, employees receive a credit equal to 3 percent of their pay, plus interest. Employees are fully vested after three years.
• 401(k) plan with auto-enrollment: This plan allows employees to set aside part of their current income on a pretax basis every month. After one year of service, the company matches a portion of the employee's contributions.
• Value sharing: Each year, the company may contribute funds, as determined by plan provisions, to a separate, tax-deferred account. Employees own 20 percent after two years, 40 percent after three years, 66 percent after four years and are fully vested after five years.
• Investment-advisor service to help employees manage their retirement-plan assets

Work-Life

• Alternate work schedules such as job sharing, telecommuting and flexible hours allow workers to have a say in their schedules where resources, performance and job requirements permit.
• Summer hours: From Memorial Day through Labor Day (or December to March in the southern hemisphere), many of our offices close for business at 12:30 p.m. on Fridays to give employees an early start on the weekend.

Other lifestyle benefits include adoption reimbursement, discounts on parking and mass transit, and an employee assistance program that provides confidential counseling for personal problems.

Clorox is proud of its culture of recognizing people’s success. No longer is recognition shared only from managers, but more than ever, peers are recognizing peers. We understand that we own each other's recognition, and it's making Clorox a better place to work. In fact, we have a day-to-day, online recognition program to celebrate individuals who demonstrate one of the following traits at any given time: compassion, curiosity, doing the right thing, humility, integrity, optimism, taking personal ownership, ensuring safety in the workplace, stretching for results and working together.

Examples of Clorox programs include:

• An incentive compensation program that rewards eligible employees for individual performance and for supporting the company's goals. In addition, annual awards are given to outstanding employees in several areas such as marketing, sales and finance.
• The Bravo program*: A nonmonetary peer-to-peer recognition program that empowers individuals to reward the efforts and achievements of their colleagues.

*Program available only to U.S. employees.

We are committed to the ongoing success of our employees and offer learning and development opportunities that enable them to be more effective in their current roles, while preparing them for ongoing career growth.

This focus on continuous improvement is an investment in our business and our future. It sends a clear message to our employees, business partners, shareholders and competitors that we are committed — as a team — to making everyday life better, every day.

Professional growth is a shared responsibility at Clorox, and employees work with their managers to create and implement individual development plans. These plans build employees' capabilities through the right mix of development experiences, relationships, on-the-job education, classroom-based training and e-learning.

We believe developing our current and future leaders is critical to our company's business success. To that end, our in-house Diamond Leadership Institute provides leadership development opportunities for different segments of the Clorox population. In these programs, Clorox executives lead by teaching others and offer participants a unique and challenging cross-functional experience.

At Clorox, people development is an integral part of our business and organizational growth. We are committed to building employee capabilities so that they become more effective in their current roles and to prepare them for continued career opportunities.

Clorox has robust development programs, including 360 degree feedback with managers and peers, formal development planning and instructor-led workshops and training courses taught by Clorox leaders as well as outside experts. Topics include professional skill development, team development and leadership development for all levels.

We also make sure managers are effectively building strong, productive relationships with their employees. Managers go through certification programs and 40 percent of their performance and skill evaluations are focused on their effectiveness in managing employee performance and career development. At Clorox, we believe a strong manager:

• Fosters the development of staff and takes personal ownership for their success
• Gives ongoing coaching and feedback on the individual’s development needs and progress
• Builds development opportunities into work expectations and allows adequate time to complete them.
• Helps identify ways in which the employee can demonstrate the developed skill or knowledge on-the-job
• Helps employee remove any development roadblocks
• Is a role model for personal development; leads by example

At Clorox we recognize and celebrate the fact that education is a lifelong pursuit. The Clorox Education Assistance Program provides financial aid for qualified employees seeking to continue their education by earning degrees or certificates from regionally and nationally accredited educational institutions. The program is designed to assist employees in developing skills and knowledge that contribute to their current job and/or next attainable position. Clorox helps cover education expenses such as tuition, books, laboratory fees, registration fees, etc.

Clorox has a strong human resources support system for employees, where a dedicated HR resource supports each function of our business. Each Clorox employee has access to a robust online portal featuring essential information from benefits and compensation information to career development and coaching. From day one new employees are given access to resources that help them learn about Clorox – its policies and values, the corporate strategy and more. Every quarter Clorox stages a quarterly “Town Hall” meeting and global web cast for all our employees where our CEO and other company leaders update everyone on the state of the business, answer questions and recognize employee accomplishments and service.