Vocational Rehabilitation Benefits. Vocational rehabilitation involves a work-related activity or training strategy that is designed to help you return to gainful employment and a more productive lifestyle. A plan or program will be approved if it is appropriate for the expected duration of your disability and it facilitates your earliest possible return to work.
Vocational Rehabilitation Benefits for Permanently Disabled Employees. Vocational Rehabilitation will be made available to employees who have suffered permanent disability as a result of an injury or illness sustained in the course and scope of employment before 1/1/04. For injuries on or after 1/1/04 qualified employees are entitled to supplemental job displacement vouchers in accordance with the California Labor Code, Division 1, Department of Industrial Relations and Division 4, Workers' Compensation and Insurance, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the City of Palo Alto's Workers' Compensation Program. Section 1 - Health Plan
a) Active Employees
1. Through October 5, 2012 the City and employees will continue to contribute toward medical insurance premiums in the same proportion and subject to the same terms that they contributed toward such premiums as of June 30, 2012. Effective at the start of the pay period including October 6, 2012 the City will pay a maximum of ninety percent (90%) of the monthly medical premium for the plan in which the employee is enrolled at the employee's applicable level of enrollment (i.e. employee only, employee plus one dependent or employee plus two or more dependents). However, the City will in no event contribute more than ninety percent (90%) of the premium for the second most expensive plan among the existing array of plan sat the employee's applicable level of enrollment. City medical premium contributions will be prorated for part-time employees hired or newly assigned to a part-time work schedule on or after January 1, 2010 based on the number of hours per week the part-time employee is assigned to work. I f PERS changes the plans it offers, the City and the Union will meet and confer over the City continuing to provide an equivalent benefit at an equivalent cost. The City shall contribute to its retiree insurance trust (the PERS retiree medical trust or its successor) an amount not less than the amount of premium contributions paid by active employees in the bargaining unit in the respective calendar year as a result of the employees' payment of ten percent (10%) of the premium increase as provided above in this paragraph 1. The City shall make one contribution in the fiscal year to cover the entire amount payable to the trust under this paragraph as of the preceding December 31.
