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Item 9A. Controls and Procedures

2026-02-18 compared with 2025-02-19 · 47 added, 24 removed, 175 unchanged (29% of the section changed)

11 unchanged sentences

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting is not intended to provide absolute assurance that a misstatement of our financial statements would be prevented or detected.

In accordance with guidance issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), registrants are permitted to exclude acquisitions from the final assessment of internal control over financial reporting for the fiscal year in which the acquisition occurred with integrating the acquired operations.

Our management’s evaluation of internal control over financial reporting excluded Healthcare Staffing Professionals, Inc., which was acquired on January 31, 2025, and whose financial statements constitute 2.3% and 1.6% of net and total assets, respectively, and 3.4% of revenue of our consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 28, 2025.

Management conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting based on the framework and criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013), issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.

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We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended December 28, 2025, of the Company and our report dated February 18, 2026, expressed an unqualified opinion on those financial statements.

As described in the Report of Management on Internal Control over Financial Reporting , management excluded from its assessment the internal control over financial reporting at Healthcare Staffing Professionals, Inc., which was acquired on January 31, 2025, and whose financial statements constitute 2.3% and 1.6% of net and total assets, respectively, and 3.4% of revenues of the consolidated financial statement amounts of the Company as of and for the year ended December 28, 2025.

Accordingly, our audit did not include the internal control over financial reporting at Healthcare Staffing Professionals, Inc.

Basis for Opinion

54 unchanged sentences

10-Q 001-14543 10/30/2017

3.3 Articles of Amendment for the Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, as filed with the Secretary of State of Washington on May 14, 2025.

8-K 001-14543 05/14/2025

4.1 Description of Securities .

4.2 Rights Agreement, dated as of May 14, 2025, by and between the Company and Computershare Trust Company, N.A., as rights agent (which incorporates the Form of Rights Certificate as Exhibit A thereto).

8-K 001-14543 05/14/2025

10.1 Assumption and Novation Agreement among TrueBlue, Inc.

5 unchanged sentences

10.3 Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, effective February 9, 2024.

10.4 First Amendment to Credit Agreement, effective June 27, 2025.

10.5 Second Amendment to Credit Facility, effective January 30, 2026.

Employment Agreement between TrueBlue, Inc.

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10-K 001-14543 02/24/2020

E mployment Agreement between TrueBlue, Inc.

Employment Agreement between TrueBlue, Inc.

and Richard Betori, effective March 20, 2023.

001-14543 05/06/2024

N on-Competition Agreement between TrueBlue, Inc.

Non-Competition Agreement between TrueBlue, Inc.

and Richard Betori, dated March 31, 2023.

001-14543 05/06/2024

E mployment Agreement between TrueBlue, Inc.

Employment Agreement between TrueBlue, Inc.

and Kristy Fitzsimmons-Willis, effective March 20, 2023.

001-14543 05/06/2024

F orm Restricted Share Unit Award for grants on or after February 23, 2024.

Form Restricted Share Unit Award for grants on or after February 23, 2024.

001-14543 05/06/2024

F orm Performance Share Unit Award for grants on or after March 7, 2024.

Incorporated by reference

Exhibit number Exhibit description Filed herewith Form File no.

Date of first filing

Form Performance Share Unit Award for grants on or after March 7, 2024.

001-14543 05/06/2024

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S-8 333-167770 06/25/2010

2010 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended and restated, effective May 11, 2023.

TrueBlue, Inc.

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10-K 001-14543 02/22/2012

TrueBlue, Inc.

Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plan as amended and restated, effective April 1, 2018.

First Amendment to TrueBlue, Inc.

Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plan, effective January 1, 2019.

Second Amendment to TrueBlue, Inc.

Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plan, effective August 21, 2020.

Third Amendment to TrueBlue, Inc.

Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plan, effective January 1, 2024.

10-Q 001-14543 08/04/2025

2016 TrueBlue Omnibus Incentive Plan.

S-8 333-211737 06/01/2016

Incorporated by reference

Exhibit number Exhibit description Filed herewith Form File no.

Date of first filing

2016 TrueBlue Omnibus Incentive Plan, as amended and restated, effective May 9, 2018.

S-8 333-238093 05/08/2020

2010 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended and restated, effective May 11, 2023.

2016 Omnibus Incentive Plan, as amended and restated, effective May 11, 2023.

2016 Omnibus Incentive Plan, as amended and restated, effective May 15, 2024.

19.1 I nsider Trading P olicy

2016 TrueBlue Omnibus Incentive Plan, as amended and restated, effective May 11, 2023.

2016 TrueBlue Omnibus Incentive Plan, as amended and restated, effective May 15, 2024.

A mended and Restated 2016 TrueBlue Omnibus Incentive Plan, effective May 14, 2025.

19.1 Insider Trading Policy

21.1 Subsidiaries of TrueBlue, Inc.

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Schweihs, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President

Embick 2/19/2025 /s/ Jeffrey B.

/s/ Brian Capone 2/18/2026 /s/ Jeffrey B.

Sakaguchi 2/18/2026

Signature Date Signature Date

Embick, Chief Accounting Officer, Senior Vice President

Brian Capone, Chief Accounting Officer, Senior Vice President

Sakaguchi, Chairman of the Board

5 unchanged sentences

Goings, Director

/s/ Kim Harris Jones 2/19/2025 /s/ Robert C.

Kreidler 2/19/2025

/s/ William Greenblatt 2/18/2026 /s/ Kim Harris Jones 2/18/2026

Signature Date Signature Date

Kim Harris Jones, Director Robert C.

Kreidler, Director

/s/ Sonita F.

Lontoh 2/19/2025 /s/ Paul G.

William Greenblatt, Director Kim Harris Jones, Director

/s/ Robert C.

Kreidler 2/18/2026 /s/ Sonita F.

Lontoh 2/18/2026

Signature Date Signature Date

Lontoh, Director Paul G.

Reitz, Director

/s/ Kristi A.

Kreidler, Director Sonita F.

Lontoh, Director

Reitz 2/18/2026 /s/ Kristi A.

Savacool 2/18/2026

Signature Date

Signature Date Signature Date

Reitz, Director Kristi A.

Savacool, Director

/s/ William Seward 2/18/2026

Signature Date

William Seward, Director

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Item 9A. Controls and Procedures