Better Health for All

TE Connectivity has faced significant environmental penalties, including a $4.4 million fine for water pollution in 2004

and additional fines for environmental and hazardous waste violations totaling over $4.5 million . The company has no revenue from products with direct negative health impacts. TE Connectivity supports mental health through its THRIVE employee resource group, which focuses on mental, emotional, and physical well-being , hosting keynotes, discussions , and a virtual board for employees to share resources on mental health awareness .

Fair Money & Economic Opportunity

TE Connectivity Ltd. is a global technology company that designs and manufactures connectivity and sensor solutions.

Its core business does not involve lending, insuring, moving, or storing money for consumers. As such, the company does not offer consumer credit products, manage customer financial data, or operate financial service access points. Therefore, all KPIs related to financial services, including underserved client share, pricing fairness, exploitative fee exposure, inclusion initiatives (loan/insurance book), data accessibility, fair lending compliance, wealth building outcomes, profit reinvestment in community finance, financial literacy initiatives, debt burden ratio, geographic inclusion (banking deserts), and product simplicity (financial products), are not applicable to its operations.

Fair Pay & Worker Respect

In fiscal year 2024, TE Connectivity reported an OSHA total recordable incident rate of 0.11.

The CEO-to-median employee pay ratio was 589:1 for fiscal year ending 2024.

Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing

No specific quantitative data was provided in the articles for any of the KPIs under the Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing value. While the articles mention policies, commitments, and general programs related to human rights

, conflict minerals , and supplier social responsibility , they do not include specific percentages for fair-trade certification, traceability coverage, ethical clause coverage, or supplier diversity spend. There is also no data on audit frequency , the number of forced or child labor incidents , remediation speed , or the share of spend on high-risk materials .

Honest & Fair Business

TE Connectivity settled with the U.S. Department of Commerce for $5.8 million in August 2024 for illegally shipping technology components to Chinese military-linked entities.

These violations, which occurred between 2015 and 2019, involved 79 alleged breaches of export regulations, including sales to entities on the BIS Entity List and for restricted unmanned aerial vehicle end uses. Concealment tactics were employed, such as referring to state-owned Chinese military corporations by numbers, using "stand-in entities," combining orders, and falsifying end-user information. In 2024, the company strengthened its anti-bribery and anti-corruption policies and introduced a global strategy for ethical behavior, supported by a multi-language Guide to Ethical Conduct for employees.

Kind to Animals

TE Connectivity's core business involves designing and manufacturing connectivity and sensor solutions. The provided articles do not offer specific, quantifiable data points for any of the ethical value's KPIs. While one article mentions that a TE Connectivity sensor can be used in animal testing applications, there is no evidence regarding the company's own animal testing policy, volume, or use of alternatives.

Similarly, there is no evidence of cruelty-free certifications, humane certifications for operations, ethical input substitution, supplier audits for animal welfare, cage-free sourcing, R&D investment in animal-free technologies, animal agriculture ethics, animal-free R&D collaboration, or public policy engagement related to animal welfare. Information about wildlife protection products focuses on preventing harm from electrical infrastructure to animals and vice-versa, but does not provide measurable biodiversity impact or species recovery metrics for conservation initiatives.

No War, No Weapons

TE Connectivity derived 7.35% of its total net sales from aerospace, defense, and marine markets in fiscal year 2023, amounting to $1.178 billion.

The company supplies ruggedized electronic interconnects for military and electronic warfare systems. Between December 2015 and October 2019, the company committed 79 violations of U.S. export control laws, illegally shipping approximately $1.74 million worth of items to organizations on the BIS Entity List, some linked to Chinese hypersonics, drone, and military electronics programs. These violations resulted in a $5.8 million civil penalty from the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), though the company voluntarily disclosed the violations after discovery.

Planet-Friendly Business

TE Connectivity's greenhouse gas reduction targets for Scopes 1, 2, and 3 have been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).

The company aims to reduce Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 70% by 2030 from a 2020 baseline, and Scope 3 emissions by 30% by 2032 from a 2022 baseline. Progress includes an 80% reduction in absolute Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions between September 2020 and October 2024, and a 14% reduction in Scope 3 emissions since 2022. In fiscal year 2024, 87% of the company's global electricity was sourced from renewable energy, surpassing its goal of 80% by 2025.

Respect for Cultures & Communities

The company has a grievance mechanism accessible to external stakeholders to raise human rights concerns and complaints.

However, there is no specific, quantifiable evidence for other KPIs such as the number of formal partnerships with indigenous or local community groups, percentage of revenue reinvested in local community development, cultural appropriation incidents, cultural impact assessment protocols, local employment ratio, average complaint resolution time, or cultural preservation investments.

Safe & Smart Tech

TE Connectivity has no documented incidents of unauthorized data use by the company.

The company contractually requires all third parties, including subsidiaries, to adequately safeguard personal data and not use it for any other purpose than for which it was collected. Fraudulent phishing emails claiming to be from TE did not originate from the company. Users are provided with comprehensive data control options, including the ability to review, update, amend, block, or remove their personal data, and to opt out of data collection and processing. The company demonstrates good regulatory compliance, adhering to jurisdiction-specific privacy laws and regulations for data transfers from non-EU countries. It utilizes EU standard contractual clauses for international data transfers and processes data based on user consent in accordance with GDPR Art. 6 para. 1, with Microsoft Corporation supporting as a processor under GDPR Art. 28 for its Clarity service.

Zero Waste & Sustainable Products

TE Connectivity recycled approximately 80% of waste materials from its operations.

The company has reduced hazardous waste disposal by 46% since 2021. It has set ambitious company-wide targets to divert at least 98% of all operational waste from landfill or incineration by fiscal year 2029 and to decrease hazardous waste disposed by 15% from its fiscal 2021 baseline by fiscal 2025. Waste reduction initiatives include using alternative molding methods, regrinding old resin for reuse, external re-compounding, and smarter design, which collectively reduced resin waste by 9% and avoided 9,500 metric tons of virgin material in fiscal year 2023. Additionally, the company contributed to a program repurposing excess inventory.