An Illness. Injury Review Committee (IRC) will be established, at least one member of which will be a representative of the Union. The committee will meet monthly. The Union member will suffer no loss of regular earnings for attendance at such meetings. If the Union member is required to attend on their day off they will receive pay at straight time or time in lieu where possible for hours spent in IRC meetings. Such hours are invisible for the purpose of determining premium. The Employer will provide an updated list of information to the IRC before each monthly meeting including the following:
i) Employees absent from work because of disability who are in receipt of Workplace Safety Insurance Board benefits.
ii) Employees absent from work because of short term disability in excess of five (5) shifts who continue to be off and those who are in receipt of Long Term Disability benefits, including last day worked.
iii) Employees who required temporary or permanent accommodation in the workplace.
An Illness. Disability Bank of forty-five (45) days will be provided by the Xxxxx Xxxx 24 Education Association. If, under unusual circumstances, all forty-five (45) days in the 25 bank have been exhausted, additional days for the bank may be made available by 26 mutual agreement of the Agency and Association. 28 An employee, whose illness/disability leave is exhausted, through catastrophic illness 29 or injury, may apply for part or all of the forty-five (45) days. This application should be 30 submitted to the Executive Committee of the Xxxxx Xxxx Education Association. The 31 Association shall reimburse the Agency for actual costs related to use of the 32 Illness/Disability Bank. Such reimbursement shall occur by costing the amount 33 against the following year’s total compensation/benefit package for this employee 34 group. 36 The Association and its affiliates shall hold harmless and defend the Board with respect 37 to any action or suit concerning such Illness/Disability Bank, provided that the Board 38 shall have acted in accordance with the terms of this ARTICLE.
An Illness or Injury and any symptoms, sequelae, or complication thereof requiring treatment. All injuries arising from the same event or series of continuous events are considered as one Disability. Successive periods of hospital confinement shall be considered as being for one confinement except when:
An Illness. Disability Bank of forty-five (45) days will be provided by the Xxxxx Xxxx 22 Education Association. If, under unusual circumstances, all forty-five (45) days in the 23 bank have been exhausted, additional days for the bank may be made available by 24 mutual agreement of the Agency and Association. 26 An employee, whose illness/disability leave is exhausted, through catastrophic illness or 27 injury, may apply for part or all of the forty-five (45) days. This application should be 28 submitted to the Executive Committee of the Xxxxx Xxxx Education Association. The 29 Association shall reimburse the Agency for actual costs related to use of the 30 Illness/Disability Bank. Such reimbursement shall occur by costing the amount against 31 the following year’s total compensation/benefit package for this employee group.
