Commencement of Benefit Payments. Benefits under the Weekly Indemnity Benefit Plan shall commence on the first day of absence due to non- compensable accident and on the earlier of the fourth day of absence or the loss of twenty-four regularly scheduled hours, due to illness. The employee must consult a licensed doctor of medicine during the first three (3) days of absence. Otherwise, the first day of absence will be established as being two (2) days prior to the date that the doctor was consulted. However, if the employee is hospitalized during the first fourteen (14) days of a continuous period of absence, benefits will commence from the first day of absence provided the employee was continuously disabled from the same or related disability from the first day of absence to the date of hospitalization, the first day of absence being established as indicated in the preceding sentence.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Commencement of Benefit Payments. Benefits under the Weekly Indemnity Benefit Plan shall commence on the first day of absence due to non- non-compensable accident and on the earlier of the fourth day of absence or the loss of twenty-four regularly scheduled hours, due to illness. The employee must consult a licensed doctor of medicine during the first three (3) days of absence. Otherwise, the first day of absence will be established as being two (2) days prior to the date that the doctor was consulted. However, if the employee is hospitalized during the first fourteen (14) days of a continuous period of absence, benefits will commence from the first day of absence provided the employee was continuously disabled from the same or related disability from the first day of absence to the date of hospitalization, the first day of absence being established as indicated in the preceding sentence.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Commencement of Benefit Payments. Benefits under the Weekly weekly Indemnity Benefit Plan shall commence com- mence on the first day of absence due to non- non-compensable accident and on the earlier of the fourth day of absence or the loss of twenty-four regularly scheduled hours, due to illnessIllness. The employee must consult a licensed doctor of medicine during the first three (3) days of absence. OtherwiseOther- wise, the first day of absence will be established as being two (2) days prior to the date that the doctor was consulted. However, if If the employee is hospitalized during the first fourteen (14) days of a continuous period of absence, benefits will commence from the first day of absence provided the employee was continuously disabled from the same or related disability from the first day of absence to the date of hospitalization, the first day of absence being established as indicated in the preceding sentence.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement