Catastrophic illness or "Injury" means an illness or injury that is expected to incapacitate the employee for an extended period of time, or that incapacitates a member of the employee's family which incapacity requires the employee to take time off from work for an extended period of time to care for that family member, and taking extended time off work creates a financial hardship for the employee because he or she has exhausted all of his or her sick leave and other paid time off.
Catastrophic illness or “injury” means an illness or injury that is expected to incapacitate the employee for an extended period of time, or that incapacitates a member of the employee’s family which incapacity requires the employee to take time off from work for an extended period of time to care for that family member, and taking extended time off work creates a financial hardship for the employee because he or she has exhausted all of his or her sick leave and other paid time off.
Catastrophic illness means a physical or mental illness or injury of the employee, as certified by a licensed physician, that will result in the inability of the employee to work for more than 30 workdays on a consecutive or intermittent basis; or that will result in the inability of the employee to report to work for more than 30 workdays due to the need to attend to an immediate family member on a consecutive or intermittent basis.
Examples of Catastrophic illness in a sentence
Catastrophic illness or injury is defined as a critical medical condition, a long-term major physical impairment or disability which manifests itself during employment.
More Definitions of Catastrophic illness
Catastrophic illness means an unforeseen, prolonged and extended illness or medical condition, the medical and associated travel expenses of which are not covered by any other state or federal program or any insurance contract.[PL 2005, c. 472, §1 (NEW).]
Catastrophic illness is defined to mean an illness or injury that is expected to incapacitate a unit member for an extended period of time, and the incapacity requires the unit member to take time off from work for an extended period of time.
Catastrophic illness or injury means an illness that is expected to incapacitate the bargaining unit member for an extended period of time and taking such extended time off from work creates a financial hardship for the bargaining unit member because he or she has exhausted all of his or her sick leave, vacation, and comp time.
Catastrophic illness means an acute or prolonged illness
Catastrophic illness means any illness or condition for which the incurred medical expenses not covered by any other source, which allows funds to provide for the medically related needs of a child, as defined in N.J.A.C. 10:155-1.14 including, but limited to, insurance contracts, trusts, proceeds from fundraising or settlements relative to the medical condition of a child, exceed 10 percent of the first $ 100,000 of annual income of a family plus 15 percent of the excess income over $ 100,000.
Catastrophic illness. – means an extended critical illness, surgery, injury, or temporary state of disability due to non-work related injury or illness. It requires the services of a licensed medical practitioner for a prolonged period of time and an extended absence from work for treatment or recovery where the absence extends after the employee has exhausted all accumulated state personal and local sick leave, and non-working days. Pregnancies without serious complications are not considered to be catastrophic illnesses covered under the extended sick leave plan. The person, through a catastrophic illness, must be unable to perform the duties of his/her positions for an extended time.
Catastrophic illness is defined to mean an illness or injury that is expected to incapacitate an employee or a member of his or her family, for an extended period of time, and which requires the employee to take time off from work for an extended period of time, and taking an extended period of time off work creates a financial hardship for the employee because he or she has exhausted all of his or her sick leave and other paid leave. Members of the employee’s family means the following relatives of the employee: spouse, son, daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandchild, domestic partner. In cases involving a long-established personal relationship between the employee and an individual, a request may be granted at the discretion of the Associate Superintendent of Personnel Support Services or his/her designee.