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the employee identify which category of event the leave pertains to as a condition of
exercising rights under this policy.

Employees will not be subject to adverse action for exercising rights or attempting to
exercise rights under this policy, opposing practices that they believe to be in
violation of this policy, or supporting the exercise of rights of another under this
policy.

VOTING LEAVE
Your Employer believes that each employee should have the opportunity to exercise
his/her right to vote in a state or federal election or primary, general or special. Any
employee whose work schedule does not provide him/her two consecutive hours to
vote while polls are open will be granted the number of paid hours necessary which,
when combined with the employee’s time, will provide him/her with two
consecutive hours of excused time in order to vote. Please notify your supervisor
one day in advance if voting leave is needed and specify which hours are to be taken.

JURY AND WITNESS DUTY
Big River realizes that it is the obligation of all U.S. citizens to serve on a jury when
summoned to do so. All employees will be allowed time off to perform such civic
service as required by law. Employees are expected, however, to provide proper
notice of a request to perform jury duty and verification of their service.

Employees also are expected to keep management informed of the expected length
of jury duty service and to report to work for the major portion of the day if excused
by the court. If the required absence presents a serious conflict for management,
employees may be asked to try to postpone jury duty.

Employees on jury duty leave will be paid for their jury duty service in accordance
with state law; however, exempt employees will be paid their full salary for any
week in which time is missed due to jury duty if work is performed for the Company
during such week.

Employees called to serve as a witness in a judicial proceeding must notify their
supervisor as soon as possible.

Employees will not be compensated for time away from work to participate in a
court case, but may use available vacation and personal time to cover the period of
absence.

Employees attending judicial proceedings in response to a subpoena will not be
disciplined for their absence.

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