Compensation for Work Related Injury or Illness. (a) When an employee is unable to work due to an injury or industrial illness arising from work performed for the Company that is accepted as compensable by the applicable Workers' Compensation Board, the Company will pay to such an employee an amount which will maintain the employee's basic wages net of income tax. Such payments shall be made without loss of the employee's Short Term and Intermediate Term Sickness/Disability Benefits and shall cease when the disability has been declared permanent and the compensation has been taken over completely by the applicable Workers' Compensation Board at provincial rates. (b) Pending acceptance by the Workers' Compensation Board of such a claim as compensable, the employee will be maintained on payroll at one hundred per cent (100%) of basic wages (less normal payroll deductions). (c) When such a claim is accepted by the Board as compensable, the employee's wages will be adjusted as provided in (a) above retroactive to the commencement of the absence due to the injury or illness. (d) If the Board rejects the claim, the employee will be notified and will have to submit a claim under the Short Term and/or Intermediate Term Sickness/ Disability Plans.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Compensation for Work Related Injury or Illness. (a) When an employee is unable to work due to an injury or industrial illness arising from work performed for the Company that is accepted as compensable by the applicable Workers' Compensation Board, the Company will pay to such an employee an amount which will maintain the employee's basic wages net of income tax. Such payments shall be made without loss of the employee's Short Term and Intermediate Term Sickness/Disability Benefits and shall cease when the disability has been declared permanent and the compensation has been taken over completely by the applicable Workers' Compensation Board at provincial rates.. SUPPLEMENTARY LETTER #1 Page 2 of 7
(b) Pending acceptance by the Workers' Compensation Board of such a claim as compensable, the employee will be maintained on payroll at one hundred per cent (100%) of basic wages (less normal payroll deductions).
(c) When such a claim is accepted by the Board as compensable, the employee's wages will be adjusted as provided in (a) above retroactive to the commencement of the absence due to the injury or illness.
(d) If the Board rejects the claim, the employee will be notified and will have to submit a claim under the Short Term and/or Intermediate Term Sickness/ Disability Plans.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Compensation for Work Related Injury or Illness. (a) When an employee is unable to work due to an injury or industrial illness arising from work performed for the Company that is accepted as compensable by the applicable Workers' Compensation Board, the Company will pay to such an employee an ; amount which will maintain the employee's basic wages net of income tax. Such payments shall be made without loss of the employee's Short Term and Intermediate Term Sickness/Disability Benefits and shall cease when the disability has been declared permanent and the compensation has been taken over completely by the applicable Workers' Compensation Board at provincial rates.
(b) Pending acceptance by the Workers' Compensation Board of such a claim as compensable, the employee will be maintained on payroll at one hundred per cent (100%) of basic wages (less normal payroll deductions).
(c) When such a claim is accepted by the Board as compensable, the employee's wages will be adjusted as provided in (a) above retroactive to the commencement of the absence due to the injury or illness.
(d) If the Board rejects the claim, the employee will be notified and will have to submit a claim under the Short Term and/or Intermediate Term Sickness/ Disability Plans.
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Samples: Collective Agreement