ARTICLE 18

Jury Duty

Section 1.      A first shift employee who is required to be absent from work in order to report for jury examination on a regularly scheduled workday will receive a jury duty allowance in an amount not to exceed four (4) hours' pay at his or her regular base hourly wage rate plus cost-of-living allowance.

Section 2.

(a)       When an employee is required to be absent from work on a regularly scheduled workday in order to serve as a juror, he or she shall be granted pay for those hours for which he or she is absent from work for this reason at his or her regular base hourly rate plus cost-of-living allowance.  Such payment shall not exceed eight (8) hours for any full day of absence.

(b)       Pay for such work time lost shall in no event exceed a total of thirty (30) regular eight (8) hour workdays or part days in any calendar year.

(c)        Second or third shift employees who are ordered to serve as jurors and who are excused from jury service prior to 2:00 p.m. (or prior to 1:30 p.m. in the case of employees whose shift begins at 3:00 p.m.) on any regularly scheduled workday shall report for work at the beginning of their regularly scheduled shift on such day.  They shall not be eligible for jury service pay in such case.

Section 3.      The provisions of Section 1 and Section 2 shall not apply in any case of jury examination or jury duty on any day during which an employee is not scheduled to work nor on holidays, vacation periods, or authorized leaves of absence, nor shall such provision apply to employees who have volunteered for jury duty.

Section 4.      To be eligible to receive pay for time lost from work because of jury examination or jury duty, an employee must notify his or her supervisor not later than forty-eight (48) hours after he or she receives notice to report for such examination or duty and must provide the Company within one (1) week, whenever practicable, of the completion of jury service with a statement filed by an official of the court showing the time of reporting and the time of dismissal from jury service.