ARTICLE 21

Pensions

Section 1.      The Pension Plan of United Technologies Corporation as it applies to the employee described in Article 2 of this Agreement is set out in a booklet entitled “Summary Plan Description – Employee Retirement Plan for Hourly Paid Represented Employees”, which is attached to and made part of this Agreement as Appendix C. 

Section 2.

(a)       That solely for the purpose of calculating an employee’s pension benefits, the employee’s earnings shall not be reduced because of fees or other compensation paid such employee by the civil authorities for the jury duty referred to in Article 18 nor by the military for the employee’s military service referred to in Section 1 of Article 20.

(b)       That for the sole purpose of calculating an employee’s pension benefits, an employee’s earnings shall not be reduced because of excused Union time.

Section 3.      The changes and amendments in the Pension Plan agreed upon by the parties to this Agreement will, after approval by the Pension Administration and Investment Committee of the Company and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, be attached to and made part of this Agreement.