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If you are absent longer than your FMLA leave is approved,
                                            the Company cannot guarantee reinstatement to your prior
                                            position. If FMLA time is exhausted, you may be required to
                                            reapply for open positions to regain employment.

                                            State and Local Laws. Where state and local leave laws
                                            offer more protection or benefits, the protection or benefits
                                            provided by such laws will apply. Please contact Human
                                            Resources to obtain more details about applicable state
                                            leave law.

                                            Benefits During Leave. You are given the same benefit
                                            options as active employees, i.e., changing health plans
                                            during open enrollment. FMLA leave is considered a “life
                                            status change,” which entitles you to suspend certain benefit
                                            elections (consistent with your employment change) outside
                                            the open enrollment period. Any benefits which were
                                            discontinued during an FMLA leave may begin following
                                            your return from leave if you so elect. You are subject to the
                                            30-day enrollment period following any life status change.

                                            During an approved FMLA leave, health benefits are
                                            maintained as they would be during active employment,
                                            provided you continue to pay your portion of premiums. If
                                            paid leave is substituted for unpaid FMLA leave, your paid
                                            portion of plan premiums is paid through regular payroll
                                            deduction. If you are on unpaid leave, you are responsible
                                            for remitting to the Payroll Department the employee paid
                                            portion of the premiums by the deadline provided on the
                                            invoice mailed to you by our Benefits Department.

                                            If you do not return to work at the end of the leave period
                                            (12 weeks or 26 weeks, whichever is applicable), you may
                                            be required to reimburse the Company for the cost of the
                                            health benefit premiums paid by the Company during the
                                            leave. Upon termination of benefit coverage, you will be
                                            offered the opportunity to pay for COBRA continuation
                                            coverage at your own expense for medical, dental, vision,
                                            and health care spending benefits, if any. In addition,
                                            portability will be offered for life insurance in force at the
                                            same time.






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