Personal Leave Time

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Superior Industries provides paid Personal Leave Time (“PLT”) to its full time employees. This personal leave time can be used by employees for vacations, sick time, bereavement, military service, jury duty, or for any other reason that an employee desires personal leave time.

Please note that, in accordance with Minnesota law, employees may use PLT for absences due to an illness of or injury to the employee's child, adult child, spouse, sibling, parent, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchild, grandparent, or step-parent, for reasonable periods of time as the employee's attendance may be necessary, on the same terms upon which the employee is able to use PLT for the employee's own illness or injury. In addition, an employee may use PLT for safety leave for the purpose of providing or receiving assistance to the employee or a covered relative because of sexual assault, domestic abuse, or stalking. The Company may limit the use of safety leave or PLT for absences due to an illness of our injury to the employee's adult child, spouse, sibling, parent, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchild, grandparent, or stepparent to no less than 160 hours in any 12-month period.

Although PLT can be carried forward into the following calendar year, employees of Superior Industries are encouraged (and in some cases required) to use their accrued personal leave time each calendar year. Subject to company policy, Superior Industries will permit an employee to use accrued PLT in one hour increments.

New employees will accrue personal leave time at a specified rate per month, commencing with the date of their employment. Notwithstanding this accrual, a new employee’s right to paid personal leave does not vest until the employee has worked a full 90 days.

For its regular full-time employees, Superior has established a PLT accrual plan, which is primarily based on employee length of active service. (“Active” service as used herein, is broken when an employee takes an unpaid, non-FMLA qualified or non-state Parental Leave Act (PLA) leave for more than ten (10) consecutive work days.) There are limits, however, on the amount of paid leave time which can be accrued by an employee and which will be paid by Superior Industries. The maximum accrual of personal leave time may not be in excess of 25 days. Any PLT accrued by an employee after his or her paid leave account has reached the maximum level of usable time in a calendar year will be lost to the employee, and Superior Industries has no obligation to compensate the employee for such excess PLT that may be lost. Employees of Superior Industries should monitor their accrued PLT.

Superior Industries has established a procedure for processing employee requests for paid personal leave. All eligible employees must complete a PLT Request and submit it to their job supervisor for review and approval, which is primarily granted on a first-come, first-serve basis. Although Superior Industries is generally agreeable to its employees using PLT in one-hour increments or more, Superior Industries reserves the right to deny PLT requests by reason of company workloads and job commitments, previously approved PLT requests, employees shortages, or company policy.

Occasionally, employees will find it necessary to request unpaid leave time. In these and similar instances, employees must submit in writing a request for approval of unpaid personal leave to their supervisor and Human Resources. The procedure and policy followed by Superior Industries in determining whether to grant or deny unpaid leave is the same to that which governs requests for paid personal leave.

Any requests for leave exceeding one hour must be taken as paid personal leave. Requests for unpaid time off in amounts of one hour or less must be approved by the employees' supervisor prior to taking the leave.

Superior reserves the right to vary from company policy with respect to granting, denying, or limiting an employee’s use of PLT:

1) Such use might constitute abuse of the PLT policy

2) The requesting employee would be provided with an unfair advantage or benefit not shared by other employees of Superior Industries

3) The allowance of personal leave time would be contrary to the best interest of Superior Industries or its employees.

Nothing in the Personal Leave Time Policy is intended legally to affect, deny, or diminish an employee’s right to request and receive a leave of absence, whether paid or unpaid, under the provision of:

1) Americans With Disabilities Act,

2) Federal Family and Medical Leave Act, And

3) Any other applicable leave of absence law

Employees will receive pay for earned but unused PLT upon termination of employment.