VACATION AND SICK LEAVE POLICY

VACATION LEAVE
POWER Engineers, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries (hereinafter referred to as POWER)
recognize the importance of vacation time for your recreation and relaxation and encourages all
employees eligible for this benefit to take advantage of it for some time away from the workplace.
Vacation time will accrue based on your length of service with the company (using the employees fulltime or part-time hire date). All full-time employees will start to accrue vacation in accordance with the
following schedule:
TABLE 1.0 VACATION ACCRUAL
LENGTH OF SERVICE

MAXIMUM ANNUAL
ACCRUAL

MAXIMUM BI-WEEKLY
PAY PERIOD ACCRUAL

MAXIMUM WEEKLY PAY

PERIOD ACCRUAL

0 through 5 years

10 Days

3.08 Hours

1.54 Hours

5+ through 10 years

15 Days

4.62 Hours

2.31 Hours

11+ years

16 Days

4.93 Hours

2.47 Hours

12+ years

17 Days

5.24 Hours

2.62 Hours

13+ years

18 Days

5.54 Hours

2.77 Hours

14+ years

19 Days

5.85 Hours

2.93 Hours

15+ years

20 Days

6.16 Hours

3.08 Hours

Part-time employees working 20 hours or more per week will accrue vacation time at times the
maximum bi-weekly pay period accrual amounts listed above. Consistent with our previous policy,
temporary employees do not qualify for vacation or sick leave credit.
Vacation or sick time may be taken as it accrues form the start of employment. Any leave taken in excess
of the employees accrued amount of vacation or sick will be considered time off without pay. To cash
out vacation hours, contact a Payroll Representative.
Vacation can be carried over year-to-year, up to a 240 hour maximum. Vacation will stop accruing at
the 240 hour maximum.
Upon a full-time or part-time employees termination, any accrued vacation time will be paid out to the
employee.
If an employee returns to POWER after a break-in-service, the following will apply if the employees
prior service was longer than the break-in-service: Vacation-the previous time will be bridged for
vacation accrual purposes. Sick leave- the sick leave balance from previous employment will be restored
on a pro-rated basis.
Only services as a full-time or part-time employee will qualify for vacation purposes, service as a
temporary employee will not qualify. If a part-time employees status changes to full-time, they will be
recognized a year of service for every year they worked at least 1,000 hours as a part-time employee.
This policy will recognize the original hire dates of those employees who were previously employed by
the following subsidiaries or acquisitions/mergers: PFS, PES, GGI, Sawtooth Engineering, Kuether and
Associates, TDEC, APS, BCE, SPS, POWER Testing and Energization (PTE), Cornelius Pierce and
VELOCITIE. Future acquisitions/mergers will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

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VACATION AND SICK LEAVE POLICY

SICK LEAVE
Sick Leave will accrue at 5 days per year. This amounts to 1.54 hours per bi-weekly pay period. Parttime employees and those employees who receive checks on a weekly basis accrue 0.77 hours per pay
period. Sick accrual is not dependent upon the length of service. There is no limit on the number of sick
leave hours that an employee may accrue. Accrued and unused sick leave shall not be paid upon
termination.
The sick leave benefit is provided for those instances where the employee or employees dependent(s)
become ill. Additionally, there may be other instances where the use of sick leave may be appropriate.
These instances might include taking your dependent(s) to the doctor or dentist, maternity, etc. You
cannot use your sick leave for vacation purposes.
If an employee is absent on sick leave for more than three (3) consecutive days, POWER may require a
note from a doctor. Employees are required to notify their supervisor as soon as possible when they miss
work due to an illness.
On days that sick leave is used, no more than eight (8) hours may be paid out to the employee.

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