Common use of Accident Benefits Clause in Contracts

Accident Benefits. Whenever a professional employee is absent from school as a result of personal injury compensable under the Massachusetts Workers' Compensation Laws, caused by an accident arising out of, and in the course of his/her employment, he/she may elect to charge all or part of such absence during the period of temporary disability due to the accident to sick leave, in which event he/she shall receive the sick leave pay to which he/she is entitled for the period so charged, less the amount of any Workers' Compensation award made for temporary disability due to said injury for any period for which sick leave pay is paid. In the absence of such election, such professional employee shall not receive his/her sick leave payments during the period of his/her absence for temporary disability due to the accident, and his/her sick leave credit shall not be reduced by any reason of any Workers' Compensation payments he/she may receive for temporary disability due to injury. An employee may elect to draw upon such wages as have been earned by said employee prior to his/her injury and withheld for payment as so called "summer monies", during that period of time between the occurrence of the injury and the determination by the City Solicitor as to coverage by Workers' Compensation. An employee who makes such an election must take his/her remaining "summer monies" as a lump sum payment.

Accident Benefits. Whenever a professional employee an administrator is absent from school as a result of personal injury compensable under the Massachusetts Workers' Compensation Laws, caused by an accident arising out of, of and in the course of his/her employment, he/she may elect to charge all or part of such absence during the period of temporary disability due to the accident to sick leave, in which event he/she shall receive the sick leave pay to which he/she is entitled for the period so charged, less the amount of any Workers' Compensation award made for temporary disability due to said injury for any period for which sick leave pay is paid. In the absence of such election, such professional employee administrator shall not receive his/her sick leave payments during the period of his/her absence for temporary disability due to the accident, and his/her sick leave credit shall not be reduced by any reason of any Workers' Compensation payments he/she may receive for temporary disability due to injury. An employee may elect to draw upon such wages as have been earned by said employee prior to his/her injury and withheld for payment as so so-called "summer monies", " during that period of time between the occurrence of the injury and the determination by the City Solicitor as to coverage by Workers' Compensation. An employee who makes such an election must take his/her remaining "summer monies" as a lump sum payment.