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U S M X 2 0 2 1 A N N U A L R E P O R T / 2 7 MASTER-CONTRACT RELATED ISSUES COVID-19 COVID-19 remained the focus during 2021 all over the world, including in the ports where USMX members operate. Throughout the year USMX updated the industry's travel, quarantine, and work-related COVID-19 procedures in accordance with the recommendations issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In July, employers rolled back many of the COVID-19 work protocols that had been put in place in 2020: daily temperature checks, sanitizing of equipment, requiring social distancing, staggering shiMs, and limiting the number of longshore workers using container-handling equipment. Each marine terminal operator coordinated the details of this rollback with their respective ILA Locals and the ILA leadership at their facilities. At year end, USMX and the ILA issued updated quarantine requirements to be consistent with new CDC guidelines. The new requirements called for: • Any worker who is exposed to a co-worker with a confirmed case of COVID-19 must quarantine for 5 days. If no symptoms develop in these 5 days, the employee should return to work on the 6th day aMer the exposure. • Any worker who is exposed to an individual outside of work with a confirmed case of COVID-19 must quarantine for 5 days. If no symptoms develop in these 5 days, the employee should return to work on the 6th day aMer the exposure. • Any worker who tests positive for COVID-19 must isolate for 5 days and, if asymptomatic at that time, should return to work on the 6th day aMer the exposure. • Workers who were exposed and/or who tested positive and return to work, if they work indoors and in close proximity to co-workers, should wear a mask for the first 5 days back to work. Masks are not required outdoors or in a shop where a worker can socially distance. • Workers who develop symptoms during or aMer the 5-day quarantine period must quarantine for at least 10 days and, if symptoms persist aMer the 10th day, until symptoms have been gone for a full 24 hours. COVID-19 Pandemic Relief Fund (CPRF) The COVID Pandemic Relief Fund, a supplemental unemployment benefit plan created in 2020 under the USMX- ILA Master Contract, continued to pay benefits to eligible ILA-represented workers covered by the Master Contract to replace lost income caused by COVID-19-related absences. The CPRF supplements state and federal unemployment benefits and other governmental and local contract benefits received by ILA-represented employees so that each eligible ILA-represented employee could receive each week two-thirds of the employee's 2019 average weekly wage or $1,550.00, whichever was less, for the period of an approved COVID-19- related absence. The CPRF has been funded by industry assessments on an as- needed basis, which may continue until September 30, 2024, and from month-to-month thereaMer. Participation Agreements are in place with various ports in connection with the payment of benefits to ensure that eligible ILA employees receive their benefits promptly. Illegal Secondary-BoycoF Activities In 2012, ICTSI Oregon, Inc. sued the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) and its Local 8 for damages resulting from work stoppages and slowdowns related to two ILWU jobs that involved the plugging, unplugging, and monitoring of refrigerated containers and which caused ICTSI to leave the Port of Portland 2021 FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE AND REGULATORY ACTIVITY Federal Covid-19 Legislation The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP 21), which was enacted on March 11, 2021, extended or enhanced benefits provided in 2020 by the Families First Coronavirus Relief Act and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. Payroll tax credits and employee retention credits were extended, emergency paid sick leave and emergency paid family leave were enhanced, unemployment benefits were reinstated and increased from 50 weeks to 79 weeks of benefits, one-time cash payments of $1,400 were provided to eligible adults and their dependents, and an additional $7.25 billion was provided to the Paycheck Protection Program to 2 0 2 1 R E P O R T O F C O U N S E L

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