HEALTH AND WELFARE PLAN Sample Clauses

HEALTH AND WELFARE PLAN. 9.01 The Employer shall make available the following or similar benefits as mutually agreed between the Employer and the Union to eligible regular full-time employees (as defined below). The cost of the benefits under Sections 9.07, 9.08, 9.09, 9.10, 9.11, 9.12 and 9.13 below shall be paid one hundred percent (100%) by the Employer. An eligible full-time employee shall be one who has three (3) consecutive months current employment at the effective date of the Plan. Benefits for full-time employees who are laid off will be maintained by the Employer for one half (½) of the employee's recall period as specified in Section 14.04 on the following basis: - B.C. Medical Services Plan (M.S.P.) - Group Life Insurance - Hearing aid, eyeglasses and prescription drug coverage A regular full-time employee who does not have three (3) months' current consecutive full-time service at the effective date of the Plan, or a new employee, shall be eligible the day following the date their current consecutive full-time service reaches three (3) months. 9.02 A regular full-time employee reduced to part-time shall continue to be eligible to participate in the Plan. Full-time employees reducing to below thirty-two (32) hours per week shall receive proportionate Weekly Indemnity benefits. Employees shall return completed enrollment forms as soon as possible. The Employer will only offer benefits after first eligibility test is met. If refused at that time by the employee, further testing is not required. If an employee later wants coverage, it is his or her responsibility to make application to the Employer. If he or she is eligible for coverage, the same rules regarding late enrollment as apply to full- time staff may be imposed. 9.03 The Employer shall also make available the benefits to employees (except students) who work an average of thirty-two (32) hours per week for a period of three (3) consecutive months. Such employees shall receive the same benefits as set out for full-time employees in this Section of the Agreement. 9.04 For the purposes of entitlement and disentitlement, the conditions set out below will apply: A. Employees who average thirty-two (32) hours per week for a three (3) month period will be eligible for all benefits under Section 9 on the first of the month following meeting this requirement. Eligibility verifications will be done each month ending on the last Saturday of the month on a 4, 4, 5 basis, i.e.: if an employee had averaged thirty-two (32) hour...

HEALTH AND WELFARE PLAN. The Employer shall provide the Prairie Teamsters Health and Welfare Plan, excluding Long Term and Short Term Disability coverage, to all Full-time and Part-time employees, members of the Union, and eligible dependants coming under the jurisdiction of this Agreement. The Employer shall provide the complete Prairie Teamsters Health and Welfare Plan, including Long Term and Short Term Disability coverage, to all Full-time and Part-time employees who have attained Level Certification and have completed three (3) calendar years of service. Any Full-time or Permanent Part-time employee, member of the Union, who is hired by the Employer after the effective date of the Health and Welfare Plan, shall join the Plan on the first day of the month immediately following ninety (90) calendar days from the date of employment with the Employer. It will be the responsibility of the employer to ensure that all employees are enrolled in the Health and Welfare Plan and to make premium remittances on their behalf. Failure of the Employer to enrol employees, forward completed forms and/or remit premiums to the trustees, by no later than the twentieth day of each month, will cause the Employer to be liable for the claim arising thereof. It shall be the Union’s responsibility to supply all necessary enrollment forms to the Employer. The Employer shall remit the premiums to the Administrator as designated by the Trustees of the Health and Welfare Plan. It shall be the Trustees’ responsibility, after receipt of the premiums, to distribute same to the applicable insurance underwriters. The cost of the Health and Welfare Plan will be paid for by the Employer, for full-time employees. Effective the first of the month following the date of ratification, the cost of the Plan, excluding Short Term and Long Term Disability coverage, will be one hundred and dollars and cents ($182.38) per employee, per month. Effective the first of the month following the date of ratification, the cost of the complete Plan shall be two hundred and forty dollars ($240.00) per employee, per month. All existing Permanent part-time employees will have the same coverage, however will share the cost of the Plan on a seventy percent (70%) Employer thirty percent (30%) employee basis. Permanent Part time employees hired after the date of ratification or full time employees reduced to part time status after the date of ratification will not be entitled to Short term and Long term disability coverage. The Employer wi...

HEALTH AND WELFARE PLAN. A. A health and welfare fund known as the Operating Engineers Health and Welfare Fund has been established by the Contractors and the Union by an Agreement and Declaration of Trust dated November 23, 1954, and subsequently amended by the parties to this Agreement. The Contractors agree to abide by said Agreement and Declaration of Trust and, further to make payments to the Fund in the amount designated in Appendix “F” of this Agreement for all straight-time or overtime hours worked by or paid each employee under this Agreement. The participation of the Contractors in said Trust shall be for the duration of this Agreement and any renewals or extensions thereof, or for the period workmen are employed under the terms of this Agreement. B. In the event the Trustees determine that they are unable to maintain the then existing level of benefits of the Plan without reducing the reserve funds of the Trust below the minimum required six (6) months premiums, they shall promptly advise the parties to this Agreement and Declaration of Trust of their conclusion and shall certify to said parties to this Agreement and Declaration of Trust of their conclusion and shall certify to said parties their estimate of the rate of contributions which will be sufficient to maintain the then existing level of benefits of the Plan. 1. The parties to this Agreement agree that if a majority of the participants in this Plan at a Semi-Annual Membership Meeting or a special called General Membership Meeting desire to increase the hourly contribution, as contained in this Article, to maintain or increase the level of benefits by allocating additional cents per hour from their existing hourly wage rate or from future agreed to wage increases, they will amend this Article in accordance thereof. 2. The intent of Section B, Paragraph 1, of this Article is to maintain the level of benefits agreed to by the Trustees for the period of this Agreement without any increased cost to the Employers. C. The Trustees of the respective Trust Funds shall be instructed to comply with these provisions and the parties agree to make any amendments in the respective Trust Agreements necessary to accomplish the above. D. The Contractor may make contributions on behalf of executives, craft superintendents, assistant superintendents, master mechanics and office engineers as they are defined in the Exclusion Clause of Article I, Section B, Paragraph 8, in the amount and manner to be determined by the Trustees.

HEALTH AND WELFARE PLAN. 1 6.01 The Employer agrees to pay the amount as set out in Schedule "A" for all hours worked for each employee towards the Insurance plan administered by the CLAC Health and Welfare Trust Fund. 1 6.02 Employees are eligible to receive coverage on the first of the month following three hundred and fifty (350) hours worked. It is the responsibility of the employee to complete the enrolment form for the benefit plan, which is a condition of coverage. 1 6.03 It is understood and agreed that it is the responsibility of each employee to be familiar with the specific details of coverage, (outlined in Schedule "B") and eligibility requirements of all benefit plans, and that neither the Union nor the Employer, has any responsibility for ensuring that all requirements for eligibility or conditions of coverage or entitlement of benefits are met by the employee, beyond the obligations specifically stipulated in this Agreement.

HEALTH AND WELFARE PLAN. 16.01 The Employer agrees to pay an amount as set out in Schedule “A” for all hours worked for each employee towards the Insurance Plan administered by the CLAC Health and Welfare Trust Fund. 16.02 a) Employees are eligible to receive coverage on the first of the month following three hundred and fifty (350) hours worked. It is the responsibility of the employee to complete the enrollment form for the benefit plan, which is a condition of coverage.

HEALTH AND WELFARE PLAN. The Employer shall make available the following or similar benefits as mutually agreed between the Employer and the Union to eligible regular full time employees (as defined below). An eligible full time employee shall be one who has three (3) consecutive months current employment at the effective date of the plan except for the Long-Term Disability Plan which requires twelve (12) consecutive months of current employment. A regular full time employee who does not have three (3) months current consecutive full time service at the effective date of the plan, or a new employee, shall be eligible the day following the date their current consecutive full time service reaches three (3) months.

HEALTH AND WELFARE PLAN. 17.1 The Employer and the Union agree to be bound by the terms and provisions of that certain Trust Agreement creating the Sound Health & Wellness Trust, initially executed June 18, 1957, and all subsequent revisions or amendments thereto. The Employer accepts as his representatives for the purpose of this Trust Fund, the Employer Trustees serving on the Board of Trustees of said Trust Fund and their duly appointed successors. The Employer and the Union also agree to be bound by the terms of the parties’ Health & Welfare and Pension Agreement and by all subsequent revisions or amendments thereto. 17.2 The Employer party to this Agreement shall continue to pay on a per compensable hour basis (maximum of one hundred and seventy-three (173) hours per calendar month per employee) into the Sound Health & Wellness Trust for the purpose of providing the employees with hospital, medical, surgical, vision, group life, accidental death and dismemberment, weekly indemnity benefits and dental benefits in accordance with the contribution rates and related provisions established by the separate Health and Welfare Agreement between Allied Employers, Inc. and various Local Unions dated April 1, 1977, and as subsequently amended. 17.3 The details of the benefit programs, including a description of exact benefits to be provided, and the rules under which employees and their dependents shall be eligible for such benefits, shall be determined by the Trustees of the Sound Health & Wellness Trust in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Trust Agreement creating the Trust, dated June 18, 1957, and as may be subsequently amended. 17.4 The contribution referred to shall be computed monthly and the total amount due for each calendar month shall be remitted in a lump sum not later than twenty (20) days after the last day of the month in which the contributions were earned. 17.4.1 Notwithstanding the foregoing Section, the Board of Trustees of the Sound Health & Wellness Trust shall have the authority to establish and enforce a method for reporting contributions on an accounting period basis, rather than a calendar month basis. In such a case, the one hundred and seventy-three (173) hour maximum shall be appropriately adjusted, as directed by the Trustees, provided that in no event shall the Employer's total obligation be different than what it would have been on a calendar month basis. Further, the total contributions due for each approved accounting period shall be remitt...

HEALTH AND WELFARE PLAN. A Creation of Trust Agreement The parties have established a Health and Welfare Fund under an Agreement and Declaration of Trust drafted by the Employer and executed by the Union and the Employer. Such Agreement and Declaration of Trust (hereinafter referred to as the "trust agreement") provides for a Board of Trustees composed of an equal number of representatives of the Employer and the Union. The Board of Trustees of the Health and Welfare Fund shall determine in their discretion and within the terms of this Agreement and the Agreement and Declaration of Trust such health and welfare benefits to be extended by the Health and Welfare Fund to employees and/or their dependents.

HEALTH AND WELFARE PLAN. The Railroad Employees National Health and Welfare Plan ("the Plan") is amended, effective June 1, 1996, as provided in this Section. In order for an Eligible Employee (as defined by the Plan) to continue to be covered by the Plan during any calendar month by virtue of rendering compensated service or receiving vacation pay in the immediately preceding calendar month (the "qualifying month"), such employee must have rendered compensated service on, or received vacation pay for, an aggregate of at least seven (7) calendar days during the applicable qualifying month. Any calendar day on which an employee assigned to an extra list is available for service but does not perform service shall be deemed a day of compensated service solely for purposes of this Section. Existing Plan provisions pertaining to eligibility for and termination of coverage not specifically amended by this Section shall continue in effect.

HEALTH AND WELFARE PLAN. Note: Health and Welfare benefits and eligibility requirements for all employees (except Grid A) shall be determined by the Trustees of the Joint Health and Welfare Benefit Trust.