Replacement Plans. Each member shall be eligible to receive Short-Term Disability benefits following three (3) months of continuous service. The Short-Term Disability Plan provides for the continuation of salary in whole and/or in part, for a period of seven hundred (700) hours if a member is absent due to non-occupational illness or accident. Benefits provided will be based on the individual member’s length of service, and in accordancewith the following schedule: Length of Service Salary Less than months Nil Nil months but less than year Nil hours year but less than years hours hours years but less than years hours hours years but less than years but less than years years hours hours hours hours years but less than years hours hours years but less than years hours hours years but less than years hours hours years but less than years hours hours years but less than years hours hours years but less than years but less than years or more years years hours hours hours Nil hours hours For part-time employees, the short-term disability plan shall be amended to the actual hours worked over the last (12) weeks of employment and pro-rated accordingly. All other references in Article shall be amended accordingly. Short-Term benefits will be applicable for up to five hundred and ninety-five (595) hours for each separate period of disability in conjunction with the waiting period for Long-Term Disability. Short-Term benefits however will be limited in any individual member’s anniversary years to the number of hours entitlement as indicated in Article Short-Term benefits will commence from the first regular shift of for the first three (3) absences in an anniversary year and from the fourth regular shift of disability for the fourth and subsequent absences. In the event of a member, after reporting for duty, having to report sick after he has completed in excess of one-half of his regular tour of duty, no sick time will be deducted. In the event of a member after reporting for duty, having to report sick before he has completed one-half of his regular tour of duty, he shall forfeit one-half of the tour of duty as sick benefit. Members who have completed three (3) months continuous service will be allowed up to forty-two (42) paid, non-cumulative, hours per anniversary year to provide income for illness or disability of three (3) regular shifts or less. ARTICLE
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Replacement Plans. Each member shall be eligible to receive Short-Term Disability benefits following three (3) months of continuous service. The Short-Term Disability Plan provides for the continuation of salary in whole and/or in part, for a period of seven hundred (700) hours if a member is absent due to non-occupational illness or accident. Benefits provided will be based on the individual member’s length of service, and in accordancewith the following schedule: Length of Service Salary Less than months Nil Nil months but less than year Nil hours year but less than years hours hours years but less than years hours hours years but less than years but less than years years hours hours hours hours years but less than years hours hours years but less than years hours hours years but less than years hours hours years but less than years hours hours years but less than years hours hours years but less than years but less than years or more years years hours hours hours Nil hours hours For part-time employees, the short-term disability plan shall be amended to the actual hours worked over the last (12) weeks of employment and pro-rated accordingly. All other references in Article shall be amended accordingly. Short-Term benefits will be applicable for up to five hundred and ninety-five (595) hours for each separate period of disability in conjunction with the waiting period for Long-Term Disability. Short-Term benefits however will be limited in any individual member’s anniversary years to the number of hours entitlement as indicated in Article Short-Term benefits will commence from the first regular shift of for the first three (3) absences in an anniversary year and from the fourth regular shift of disability for the fourth and subsequent absences. In the event of a member, after reporting for duty, having to report sick after he has completed in excess of one-half of his regular tour of duty, no sick time will be deducted. In the event of a member after reporting for duty, having to report sick before he has completed one-half of his regular tour of duty, he shall forfeit one-half of the tour of duty as sick benefit. Members who have completed three (3) months continuous service will be allowed up to forty-two (4248) paid, non-cumulative, hours per anniversary year to provide income for illness or disability of three (3) regular shifts or less. ARTICLEA certificate from a qualified medical practitioner may be required for any absence. The Association acknowledges that the Unemployment Insurance premium reductions allowed to the by virtue of the existence of the sick leave plan shall be retained by the Board for the provision of the benefits described in this Article. benefits may not be used where an accident or injury results in lost time which was caused by a third party unless the member agrees in to permit the Board to subrogate their claim. The agrees to contribute the full of the billed premiums towards a Long-Term Disability Plan which provide sixty-six and two-thirds of salary, up to a maximum of three thousand five hundred dollars per month after a waiting period of seventeen (17) weeks, consistent with the rules and regulations of the plans. In the event a member’s for Long-Term Disability benefits has been approved by the benefit and benefits are paid to a member, or to the Board on his behalf, the status of the member’s other benefit entitlements shall be amended as follows: Credit towards vacation and statutory holiday benefits will be on a pro-rata basis for a further period limited to weeks beyond the date the member I becomes eligible for benefits. At the end of weeks, if the member continues to receive benefits, towards vacation and statutory holidays Benefits provided in Article shall continue without restriction as long as the member is entitled to benefits, The Group Term Life Insurance benefit will be based upon the member’s disability salary. In the event a member’s application for Long-Term Disability benefits is not by the benefit carrier, the status of the member’s other benefit shall be as follows: ARTICLE REPLACEMENT PLANS Credit towards vacation and statutory holiday benefits will cease the date the member depletes his Short-Term Disability bank, or upon receipt of hours of Short-Term Disability benefits, whichever occurs first, AND If a member has depleted his bank, but is not yet eligible for benefits provided in Article shall continue until such time as a is made on a claim for benefits. Benefits provided in Article shall once a decision has been rendered by the denying the claim for benefits. If the member wishes continued coverage for the benefits outlined Article he shall reimburse the Board for the premium cost, AND The Group Term Life Insurance benefit, effect, be based upon the member's salary.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement