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EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PROGRAMS FUNERAL LEAVE 305 Effective Date: 01/01/2016 Employees who wish to take time off due to the death of an immediate family member should notify their supervisors immediately. The following amounts of paid funeral leave will be provided to full-time employees, except those in Social Services, for the death of the following individuals: • Up to 32 consecutive working hours for the employee’s spouse, parent, child, sibling; grandparents or grandchildren, at the discretion of the Department Head. • Up to 16 consecutive working hours for extended family, which includes the employee’s spouse’s parents and grandparents, foster parents, foster children, or any other person whose association with the employee was similar to any of the previously listed individuals, at the discretion of the Department Head. Part-time employees are eligible for leave, as outlined above, but on a pro-rated basis. Eligible employees in the Social Services department receive funeral for the death of the following individuals: • Up to 24 consecutive working hours for the employee’s spouse, parent, stepparent, child, sibling; employee’s spouse’s parent, stepparent, child, sibling; foster parent or foster child; grandparents or grandchildren. Employees may, with their supervisors’ approval, use any available annual leave for additional time off as necessary. Employees will only be paid for hours for which they would normally have been scheduled. JURY DUTY 306 Effective Date: 01/01/2016 Cass County encourages employees to fulfill their civic responsibilities by serving jury duty when required. An employee called to jury duty shall be granted time off with pay, less the amount of fees received for jury service. Jury duty pay will be calculated on the employee’s base pay rate times the number of hours the employee would otherwise have worked on the day of absence. Cass County may require the employee to sign over any compensation the employee may receive from the court for serving jury duty as a condition of receiving pay under this policy. Employees who take annual leave will not be required to sign over any compensation. Employees must show the jury duty summons to their supervisor as soon as possible so that the supervisor may make arrangements to accommodate their absence. Of course, employees are expected to report for work whenever the court schedule permits. Where court rules permit jurors to call in the night before to find out whether they have to come into the courthouse the next day, employees may have to provide written confirmation from the court that they actually were called in on the day in question in order to be eligible for jury duty pay under this policy. Cass County 15