Dependent Care Assistance Program The County offers the option of enrolling in a Dependent Care Assistance Program (DCAP) designed to qualify for tax savings under Section 129 of the Internal Revenue Code, but such savings are not guaranteed. The program allows employees to set aside up to five thousand dollars ($5,000) of annual salary (before taxes) per calendar year to pay for eligible dependent care (child and elder care) expenses. Any unused balance is forfeited and cannot be recovered by the employee.
Special Parental Allowance for Totally Disabled Employees (a) An employee who:
(i) fails to satisfy the eligibility requirement specified in subparagraph 17.05(a)(ii) solely because a concurrent entitlement to benefits under the Disability Insurance (DI) Plan, the Long-term Disability (LTD) Insurance portion of the Public Service Management Insurance Plan (PSMIP) or via the Government Employees Compensation Act prevents the employee from receiving Employment Insurance or Québec Parental Insurance Plan benefits, and
(ii) has satisfied all of the other eligibility criteria specified in paragraph 17.05(a), other than those specified in sections (A) and (B) of subparagraph 17.05(a)(iii), shall be paid, in respect of each week of benefits under the parental allowance not received for the reason described in subparagraph (i), the difference between ninety-three per cent (93%) of the employee's rate of pay and the gross amount of his or her weekly disability benefit under the DI Plan, the LTD Plan or via the Government Employees Compensation Act.
(b) An employee shall be paid an allowance under this clause and under clause 17.05 for a combined period of no more than the number of weeks during which the employee would have been eligible for parental, paternity or adoption benefits under the Employment Insurance or Québec Parental Insurance Plan, had the employee not been disqualified from Employment Insurance or Québec Parental Insurance Plan benefits for the reasons described in subparagraph (a)(i).
Continuing Education The Hospital and the Union recognize that continuing education is important for all employees and that they have shared interests and responsibilities in ensuring equitable access to it.
Leave With Pay for Family-Related Responsibilities (a) For the purpose of this clause, family is defined as any relative permanently residing in the employee’s household or with whom the employee permanently resides, the employee’s spouse, (or common-law partner resident with the employee), children (including xxxxxx children and children of legal or common-law partner) or parents (including step-parents or xxxxxx-parents).
(b) The Council shall grant leave with pay under the following circumstances:
(i) When alternate arrangements are not possible, an employee shall be granted up to one (1) scheduled working day’s leave for a medical or dental appointment when the dependent family member is incapable of attending the appointment by himself/herself, or for appointments with appropriate authorities in schools or adoption agencies. An employee requesting leave under this provision must notify his/her supervisor of the appointment as far in advance as possible;
(ii) To provide for the immediate and temporary care of a sick member of the employee's immediate family and to provide an employee with time to make alternate care arrangements where the illness is of a longer duration;
(iii) Fifteen (15) hours’ leave with pay for needs directly related to the birth or to the adoption of the employee's child.
(c) The total leave with pay which may be granted under sub-clause (c) (i), (ii) and (iii) shall not exceed thirty- seven decimal five (37.5) hours in a fiscal year. **
(d) Seven decimal five (7.5) hours out of thirty-seven decimal five (37.5) hours stipulated in clause 19.16 (c) above may be used:
(i) to attend school functions, if the supervisor was notified of the functions as far in advance as possible;
(ii) to provide for the employee’s child in the case of an unforeseeable closure of the school or daycare facility;
(iii) to attend an appointment with a legal or paralegal representative for non- employment related matters, or with financial or other professional representative, if the supervisor was notified of the appointment as far in advance as possible.
(e) Where, in respect of any period of compensatory leave, an employee is granted leave with pay for illness in the family under sub-paragraph (b) (ii) above, on production of a medical certificate, the period of compensatory leave so displaced shall either be added to the compensatory leave period, if requested by the employee and approved by the Council, or reinstated for use at a later date.
Medical/Dental Expense Account The Employer agrees to allow insurance eligible employees to participate in a medical and dental expense reimbursement program to cover co- payments, deductibles and other medical and dental expenses or expenses for services not covered by health or dental insurance on a pre-tax basis as permitted by law or regulation, up to the maximum amount of salary reduction contributions allowed per calendar year under Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code or other applicable federal law.
