Emergency Responder Leave Handbook Statement: Louisiana

The Company will permit employees to take time off when they are called to duty as a volunteer first responder pursuant to an operations plan developed by the state Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. For purposes of this policy, examples of "first responders" include medical personnel, emergency and medical technicians, volunteer firefighters, auxiliary law enforcement officers and members of the Civil Air Patrol.

Leave under this policy will be without pay, except that employees may use accrued vacation or