Updated Policy and Procedure Handbook - GoodLife Fitness

Leaves of Absence without PayJury and Witness Leave[back to top]In the instance where you are legally required to attend jury duty, or subpoenaed as acourt witness, you will be given a leave of absence without pay provided you agree to thefollowing conditions:1. return to work immediately if services as a juror, or as a court witness, are notrequired; and2. provide a copy of the jury summons or summons to witness to your immediatemanagerIf the jury duty lasts longer than 2 days, the associate must provide a return date andcontact their manager on a weekly basis._________________________________________________________________________Requesting to be excused due to Serious Personal HardshipAssociates are advised to mention at registration that their employer does not continuewages when someone serves jury duty. In many cases, individuals whose employerdoesn’t continue wages or those that are self employed will be excused and not selectedfor jury duty.In addition, if you feel that serving jury duty will cause you serious hardship you can makea request to the court in writing to have your jury duty postponed to a later date or to beexcused from the jury duty. The court asks that these requests be made in cases ofserious hardship only.You can speak to the judge when you attend registration and explain to them that if youare selected for jury duty that it will cause you serious personal hardship. Requests mustbe made in writing and accompanied by documentation supporting your “hardship”. Acopy of this policy can be printed and included. The judge will make a decision and youwill be notified._________________________________________________________________________Notifying your ManagerAn associate who must take jury leave is responsible for advising his or her manager inadvance. No associate will be intimidated, suspended, laid off, dismissed or penalized inany way for taking jury leave._________________________________________________________________________Returning to workAssociates on jury duty must report to work on workdays, or parts of workdays, when theyare not required to perform this duty. If an associate is excused from jury or witness dutybefore the completion of his/her regularly scheduled work day, that associate must returnto work (unless there is less than 4 hours remaining in that work day). Otherwise, theassociate will be required to return to work at the start of his/her next regularly scheduledwork day._________________________________________________________________________Continuation of Health BenefitsPlease contact policies@goodlifefitness.com for further information._________________________________________________________________________Seniority and VacationExcept for determining whether an associate has completed a Probationary Period, theperiod of a jury leave is included in calculating an associate's length of employment,service or seniority. An associate will continue to accrue vacation time during jury leave._________________________________________________________________________For more information on Jury and Witness please contact policies@goodlifefitness.comConfidential and Proprietary Information of GoodLife Fitness Clubs | V16 October 2009 49