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GreenPoint Ag Employee Handbook

Eligibility for Family Leave
If you have been employed by GreenPoint Ag for at least 12 months and have worked at least 1,250
hours during the 12 months immediately preceding the start of the leave, you are eligible for FMLA
leave as described below. When state law provides a greater benefit, you will receive the greater
benefit.

Adoption or Foster Care of a Child
If you meet FMLA eligibility requirements, you are entitled to up to twelve weeks for adoption or foster
care of a child.

For you to be eligible for leave for adoption or placement for foster care, the child will need to be either
under 18 years of age or incapable of self-care due to physical or mental disability, and the FMLA leave
will need to be completed within one year of the adoption or foster placement of the child.
When both spouses are employed by GreenPoint Ag, there may be times when the FMLA leave available
for both employees will equal a combined total of twelve weeks.

Care of a Newborn
If you are eligible for FMLA leave, you are entitled to up to twelve weeks for the birth of a child and to
bond with the newborn child within one year of birth.

When both spouses are employed by GreenPoint Ag, there may be times when the FMLA leave available
for both employees will equal a combined total of twelve weeks.

Care of Child, Spouse or Parent with Serious Health Condition
If you are eligible for FMLA leave, you are entitled to up to twelve weeks for care of a child, spouse, or
parent with a serious health condition.
Families of Service Members
Eligible employees with a spouse, son, daughter, or parent on covered active duty or who are called to
active-duty status may use their 12-week FMLA benefit to address certain qualifying exigencies.
Qualifying exigencies may include attending certain military events, arranging for alternative childcare,
addressing certain financial and legal arrangements, attending certain counseling sessions, and
attending post-deployment reintegration briefings.
An eligible employee may take up to 26 weeks of unpaid leave during any single 12-month period (a
separate and distinct leave year from the period designated above) to care for the employee’s spouse,
son, daughter, parent, or next of kin who is a covered military service member and incurred or
aggravated a serious injury or illness in the line of military duty. The 12-month period is measured
forward from the date leave begins. A covered service member is:
A current member of the Armed Forces, including a member of the National Guard or Reserves, who
has a serious injury or illness incurred in the line of duty while serving on active duty, which may
render the service member medically unfit to perform his or her duties for which the service
member is undergoing medical treatment, recuperation, or therapy; or is in outpatient status; or is
on the temporary disability retired list. Veterans who were members of the Armed Forces, including
the National Guard or Reserves, who undergo medical treatment, recuperation, or therapy for a
serious injury or illness incurred in, or aggravated by, the service and manifested itself before or

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