It is our intention to create an environment where people can use all of their capabilities to support our business. Therefore, we encourage our employees to balance their work and personal responsibilities, through programs like the following:

When you need time off to meet changing family responsibilities and respond to different life events, Family Leave provides options and allows you time away from work without hurting your career or your benefits coverage. Family Leave is available to all full-service employees for maternity, paternity, adoption, or placement of a foster child, or to deal with the serious illness of a parent, spouse or child. This unpaid leave of absence is in addition to paid time off for disability or vacation. Benefits continue at the same level as they were prior to the leave, and there is an option to earn credit for part-time work with service. A commitment to return employees to the same or similar job of comparable pay and status is part of this program.

LifeWorks* Employee Resource Program helps you manage your work/life responsibilities with practical advice, useful materials and local referrals. You can obtain personalized and confidential consultation with experienced counselors on topics such as:

• Parenting
• Education information and college planning
• Caring for adults, parents and older relatives.
• Caring for yourself
• Career planning

*LifeWorks is a service mark of WFD, a leading provider of work/family services.

Flexible Work Practices have been designed to help better balance the needs of both the business and the employee. We encourage the use of Flexible Work Practices because they can help employees juggle their personal obligations while managers try to seek a creative and productive means of meeting the business needs. With the help of your immediate supervisor, a variety of options can be assessed.

Spending accounts enable you to pay for childcare with pretax dollars. You may select this benefit yearly by choosing the DCSA option during the annual BeneFlex change period.

"Just in Time Care" is currently available at selected sites. This emergency/ backup service links employees to a variety of dependent care options such as in-home dependent care, drop-in center-based care for children and elders; work-site or near-site school holiday and snow day care; and center-based sick care.

This program is designed to assist employees with the expenses incurred when they legally adopt a child. Covered expenses include agency fees, legal fees, court costs, temporary foster care before placement of the child, medical expenses of the birth mother and medical expenses of the child.