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3.2 Are you eligible for 3.6 What if you serve in the
Sick/Personal Days? Military and need to take Military
All full-time SEKO employees employed by SEKO Leave or Reserve Training?
on the beginning of each calendar year shall SEKO recognizes that employees may need to
receive an aggregate of five (5) paid sick/personal be absent from work to serve in the U.S. military
days. No sick/personal days can be banked. Sick/ and the company supports its employees in such
personal days will not be paid as an accrued military service. SEKO provides military service
benefit at any time. leaves of absence to all full-time and part-time
employees in compliance with the Uniformed
3.3 Are you eligible for Holidays? Services Employment and Reemployment Rights
SEKO observes paid holidays for full-time and Act (USERRA) and applicable state laws.
part-time employees, and releases the dates of Please see the Human Resources Department
the recognized holidays for the following year for more information.
in the third quarter of the current year.
Please contact the Human Resources 3.7 What if you experience a
Department for more information. family or medical situation and
wish to take Family and
3.4 What if you are called
for Jury Duty? Medical Leave?
Leave for jury duty will be allowed for all full- In accordance with the Family and Medical Leave
Act of 1993, if you have been employed by SEKO for
time and part-time employees. Regular full-time at least twelve (12) months - and have worked at
employees will receive the employee’s regular least one thousand two hundred fifty (1,250) hours
salary for the duration of jury service. Part-time during the twelve (12) month period preceding the
employees will not be paid during jury service. start of the leave at a work-site where fifty (50) or
Jury leave pay will not be duplicated with any more employees work within seventy-five (75) miles
other pay such as vacation or sick/personal days. - you are eligible for up to a total of twelve (12)
At least three (3) weeks advance notice and workweeks of unpaid family and medical leave, and
approval must be obtained from your manager and up to twenty six (26) weeks for qualifying exigency
the Human Resources Department to be eligible military reasons (“Family and Medical Leave”)
for this benefit. during any rolling twelve (12) month period.

Please see the Human Resources Department for
3.5 What if you experience a death more information, including policy documentation
in your family and wish to take and resources available to you if you have a need
Funeral Leave? to take a leave that may qualify under the Family
and Medical Leave Act.
SEKO will grant funeral leave pay to all regular
full-time employees for up to three (3) consecutive 3.8 What if you experience
business days in the event of the death of an
employee’s spouse, domestic partner, child, domestic or sexual violence and
mother, father, brother, sister, grandmother, wish to take VESSA Leave?
grandfather, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother- In accordance with the Victims’ Economic Security
in-law or sister-in-law. Funeral leave pay will not and Safety Act of 2003 (“VESSA”), employees of
be duplicated with any other pay such as vacation or SEKO located in Illinois are eligible for up to a total
sick/personal days. Additional time off without pay of twelve (12) workweeks of unpaid leave (“VESSA
may be arranged with the approval of the Human Leave”) during any rolling twelve (12) month period
Resources Department. for reasons to include because you are a victim of
domestic or sexual violence; or you have a family
member who is a victim and you are addressing
issues arising from such violence.

If you think this applies to you, please
contact the Human Resources Department
for more information.

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