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OCTOBER 2021 EDITION

Personal leave may be granted for a period of up to 3 months. Unpaid personal leave may only be requested once all other
appropriate leave balances have been exhausted.
While on approved Personal Leave, you will continue to receive the same level of health insurance benefits as if you had
continued to work, provided your contribution to health insurance premiums is timely paid by you during the period of FML.
If your required premium payment is more than 30 days late, you may be dropped from coverage under Diversified’s health
insurance plan. Benefit accruals will be suspended during the leave and will resume upon return to active employment.

When a personal leave ends, every reasonable effort will be made to return the employee to the same position, if it is
available, or to a similar available position for which the employee is qualified. However, Diversified cannot guarantee
reinstatement in all cases. If an employee fails to report to work promptly at the expiration of the approved leave period,
Diversified will assume the employee has resigned.

Military Leave
A military leave of absence will be granted to employees who are absent from work because of service in the United States
uniformed services in accordance with the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) and
applicable state law. Advance notice of military service is required, unless military necessity prevents such notice, or it is
otherwise impossible or unreasonable.

Employees will continue to receive full pay while on leave for two-week training assignments and shorter absences. The
portion of any military leaves of absence more than 2 weeks will be unpaid. However, employees may use any available
PTO for the absence. Employees returning from military leave will be reinstated in accordance with state and federal law.

Maternity & Parental Bonding Leave
A maternity leave of absence is a paid leave associated with the recovery period for the birth of an employee’s own child.
This paid leave through Diversified is for 6 weeks and starts from the date of birth. You will receive your regular pay, minus
your disability pay, during this time.

Parental Bonding Leave
A Parental Bonding leave of absence is a leave associated with the bonding of a newborn, adoption or placement of a child
under 17 years of age. The employee must provide his manager and PeopleTeam Business Partner with at least 30 days
notices of the request (or as much notice as possible). Once the time away is approved, the employee will be eligible to use
up to 2 weeks of their unaccrued PTO time for this leave should accrued time be unavailable.

This type of leave may run concurrently with the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), which allows an employee to take
up to 12 work weeks of unpaid leave annually. To apply for this leave, follow the reporting procedures located in the FML
section of this guide.

Benefits While on Leave
The share of premium cost on any group health plan paid by the employee prior to FML leave must continue to be paid by
the employee during the FML leave. If the employee has accrued PTO that is being paid during the FML, the employee’s
share of group health plan premiums will be paid through payroll deduction. If the employee has no accrued PTO or exhausts
PTO during the FML leave, the employee is obligated to continue to pay their share of the premiums. Diversified will apply
one or more of the following options to accommodate the employee in making premium payments:

• Require that payment be made at the same time as it would be made if by payroll deduction

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