APPENDIX I

                                                             MILITARY LEAVE
    Procedures:

 A.   Employees entering the military service or serving as reservist or National Guard members shall be permitted to
return to employment with all seniority, service credits, status and pay they would have enjoyed had they not been absent, pursuant to the following conditions:

1.   The employee must satisfactorily complete the period of active duty and furnish a certificate to that effect to their supervisor.

2.   The leave of absence may not exceed four years from date of entry unless the employee is involuntarily retained.

3.    Upon release from active military service, the employee will be returned to his or her former position. If the employee’s job is of such a nature that it must be permanently filled, then the Company will attempt to return the employee to a comparable position, with all the rights and benefits the employee enjoyed before leave was taken. If no such position is available upon return, the Company will offer the employee the first comparable position that becomes available.

4.    Application for return to active status must be made within ninety (90) days after release from active military service.

5.    Employees who are either voluntary members of reserve units of the military shall notify their supervisor at least four (4) weeks in advance, and shall indicate in writing their intentions and anticipations with regard to participating in periods of active duty. Such written notification shall be made a part of the individual employee’s personnel file.

6.    Employees who participate in civilian military service are encouraged to schedule vacation time to coincide with their assigned periods of summer training.

B.   Employees who are either voluntary or involuntary members of military reserve units, or whose draft status classifies them as subject to call to active duty, must so notify their supervisor in writing as a condition of the granting of a leave of absence. Employees intending to enlist in the military service also must notify their supervisor in writing. This information shall be made a part of the employee’s personnel record.

C.   Health and group life insurance plans do not cover employees who are serving on active military duty. Employees will be suspended from coverage under these programs and will be reinstated immediately upon return to active employment.

D.   Upon leaving for military duty, the employee will receive earned vacation pay for which he or she is eligible on the date the leave of absence begins.

E.   The employee granted a leave of absence shall be suspended from active participation in all other employee benefit programs during the leave of absence period. Upon return to active employment the employee will be reinstated in these programs, with the seniority and status that would have been earned had the employee not entered military service.

F.   Paragraphs D and E do not apply to personnel who are serving in civilian military service and the National Guard, organized reserves of the Army, Navy, or Air Force, or any other recognized unit of the military while participating in summer encampments and/or cruises.

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