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Orange County Personnel Rules and Regulations ]Jffective Date: May 17, 2010 16 17. Fitness-For-Duty Certifications. Where reasonable job safety concerns exist, based on the nature of the condition and the job duties, the Counts= may also require afitness-for-duty certification before an employee may return to work when the employee takes intermittent leave or returns on a reduced schedule. 18. Reinstatement. An employee shall be rehnstated to the same position held when FML began or one of like pas= grade, pap, benefits, and other conditions of employment. a. The County may require an employee to report at reasonable intervals to the County on the employee's status and intention to return to work. The County may require that the employee provide Fitness-for-Duty Certification that the employee is able to return to work. b. Reinstatement is not required if an employee is reduced in force during the course of taking FML. The Counts= has the burden of proving that the reduction would have occurred had the employee not been on FML. 19. Benefits. The employee shall be reinstated without loss of benefits accrued when the leave began. All benefits accrue during any period of paid leave; however, no benefits or leave will be accrued during any period of leave without pay. 20. Health and Dental Benefits. The County shall maintain coverage for the employee under the County Health Plan for the duration of leave at the level and under the conditions coverage would have been provided if the employee had continued employment. a. Any share of health and dental plan premiums which an employee had paid prior to leave must continue to be paid by the employee during the leave period. The Counts= will give advance written notice to employees of the terms for payment of premiums during FML. The obligation to maintain health insurance coverage stops if an employee's premium payment is more than 30 days late. The County shall provide 15 das=s notice that coverage will cease. b. If an employee's failure to make the premium payments leads to a lapse in coverage, the County will restore the employee, upon return to work, to the health coverage equivalent to that which the employee would have had if leave had not been taken and the premium payments had not been missed without any waiting period or preexisting conditions. c. The County may recover the premiums if the employee fails to return to work after the period of leave to which the employee is entitled has expired for a reason other than the continuation, recurrence, or onset of a serious health condition or other circumstances beyond the employee's control. For this purpose, return to work is defined as 30 calendar days; therefore, if the employee resigns any time within 30 days after the return to work, the insurance premium may be recovered unless the reason for the resignation is related to the continuation, recurrence, or onset of a Issue Date: May 17, 2010 Page 13