Common use of Disability Benefits Clause in Contracts

Disability Benefits. 9.3.1 The employers shall continue a single plan for the provision of disability benefits for eligible employees who are covered by this Agreement and whose local bargaining unit has opted into this Agreement’s Plan pursuant to Article 9.3.3 in the 2001-2004 Common Agreement who have joined or who will subsequently join the plan pursuant to Article 9.3.3 below. (a) The disability benefits plan will be as set out in the findings of the Joint Committee on Benefits Administration (JCBA) entitled Long-Term Disability Benefit Initiative, but will be an insured plan and will include the following elements: ♦ Benefit level of sick leave at one hundred percent (100%) for the first thirty (30) calendar days, short-term disability at seventy percent (70%) weekly indemnity for the next twenty one (21) weeks, and long-term disability leave of seventy percent (70%) thereafter ♦ Long-term disability as defined on the basis of two-year own occupation and any other occupation thereafter as described by the JCBA plan ♦ Health and welfare benefit premiums will be paid by the employer or the Plan for employees on sick leave, short-term disability and long-term disability ♦ Employer payment of premiums for both short-term and long-term disability benefits ♦ Claims Review Committee made up of three (3) medical doctors (one designated by the claimant, one by the employer and the third agreed to by the first two doctors) ♦ Mandatory rehabilitation as described in the JCBA plan ♦ Subject to provisions of the Plan, enrolment is mandatory for all active regular employees and for active non-regular employees employed on a continuing basis for at least a four (4) month period with fifty percent (50%) or more of a full-time workload as defined by local provisions. (b) The disability benefits plan includes Partial Disability Benefits which shall be administered in accordance with the terms and conditions of this plan, as amended July 1, 2009. 9.3.3 Within ninety (90) days of the ratification of this Agreement, a local bargaining unit that is not already covered by the common disability plan shall advise the local employer in writing either: (a) that it wishes its members to be covered by the disability benefits plan by this Agreement, or (b) that it wishes its members to continue to be covered by the disability benefits plan that currently applies to them. (a) Current employees in a local bargaining unit that chooses to participate in this Agreement’s disability benefits plan under Article 9.3.3 (a) above shall retain any sick leave banks accrued up to but not beyond March 31, 2004 including any entitlement to full or partial payout of such sick leave banks. The local provisions for use of those sick leave banks including payout, where applicable, shall continue to apply. (b) Current employees in a local bargaining unit that chooses to participate in this Agreement’s disability benefits plan under Article 9.3.3 (a) and who have sick leave benefits of a fixed amount of time and who are entitled under their local collective agreement to a payout of such benefits shall have those benefits converted to a bank as of March 31, 2004 and shall be entitled to payout of the bank, subject to the provisions of the local collective agreement. 9.3.5 Employees in a local bargaining unit that chooses to participate in this Agreement’s disability benefits plan under Article 9.3.3 (a) and who are not eligible for enrolment in the Plan shall be entitled to sick leave coverage as provided in the local collective agreement, subject to such sick leave not exceeding a maximum of thirty (30) calendar days per illness. 9.3.6 Disability benefits plan members shall establish and maintain a Joint Rehabilitation Committee (JRC) with up to two (2) representatives appointed by the Union and up to two (2) representatives appointed by the Employer.

Disability Benefits. 9.3.1 The employers shall continue a single plan for the provision of disability benefits for eligible employees who are covered by this Agreement and whose local bargaining unit has opted into this Agreement’s Plan pursuant to Article 9.3.3 in the 2001-2004 Common Agreement who have joined or who will subsequently join the plan pursuant to Article 9.3.3 below. (a) The disability benefits plan will be as set out in the findings of the Joint Committee on Benefits Administration (JCBA) entitled Long-Term Disability Benefit Initiative, but will be an insured plan and will include the following elements: ♦  Benefit level of sick leave at one hundred percent (100%) for the first thirty (30) calendar days, short-term disability at seventy percent (70%) weekly indemnity for the next twenty one (21) weeks, and long-term disability leave of seventy percent (70%) thereafter ♦  Long-term disability as defined on the basis of two-year own occupation and any other occupation thereafter as described by the JCBA plan ♦  Health and welfare benefit premiums will be paid by the employer or the Plan for employees on sick leave, short-term disability and long-term disability ♦  Employer payment of premiums for both short-term and long-term disability benefits ♦  Claims Review Committee made up of three (3) medical doctors (one designated by the claimant, one by the employer and the third agreed to by the first two doctors) ♦  Mandatory rehabilitation as described in the JCBA plan ♦  Subject to provisions of the Plan, enrolment is mandatory for all active regular employees and for active non-regular employees employed on a continuing basis for at least a four (4) month period with fifty percent (50%) or more of a full-time workload as defined by local provisions. (b) The disability benefits plan includes Partial Disability Benefits which shall be administered in accordance with the terms and conditions of this plan, as amended July 1, 2009. 9.3.3 Within ninety (90) days of the ratification of this Agreement, a local bargaining unit that is not already covered by the common disability plan shall advise the local employer in writing either: (a) that it wishes its members to be covered by the disability benefits plan by this Agreement, or (b) that it wishes its members to continue to be covered by the disability benefits plan that currently applies to them. (a) Current employees in a local bargaining unit that chooses to participate in this Agreement’s disability benefits plan under Article 9.3.3 (a) above shall retain any sick leave banks accrued up to but not beyond March 31, 2004 including any entitlement to full or partial payout of such sick leave banks. The local provisions for use of those sick leave banks including payout, where applicable, shall continue to apply. (b) Current employees in a local bargaining unit that chooses to participate in this Agreement’s disability benefits plan under Article 9.3.3 (a) and who have sick leave benefits of a fixed amount of time and who are entitled under their local collective agreement to a payout of such benefits shall have those benefits converted to a bank as of March 31, 2004 and shall be entitled to payout of the bank, subject to the provisions of the local collective agreement. 9.3.5 Employees in a local bargaining unit that chooses to participate in this Agreement’s disability benefits plan under Article 9.3.3 (a) and who are not eligible for enrolment in the Plan shall be entitled to sick leave coverage as provided in the local collective agreement, subject to such sick leave not exceeding a maximum of thirty (30) calendar days per illness. 9.3.6 Disability benefits plan members shall establish and maintain a Joint Rehabilitation Committee (JRC) with up to two (2) representatives appointed by the Union and up to two (2) representatives appointed by the Employer.

Disability Benefits. 9.3.1 The employers shall continue a single plan for the provision of disability benefits for eligible employees who are covered by this Agreement and whose local bargaining unit has opted into this Agreement’s Plan pursuant to Article 9.3.3 in the 2001-2004 Common Agreement who have joined or who will subsequently join the plan pursuant to Article 9.3.3 below. (a) The disability benefits plan will be as set out in the findings of the Joint Committee on Benefits Administration (JCBA) entitled Long-Term Disability Benefit Initiative, but will be an insured plan and will include the following elements: ♦ Benefit level of sick leave at one hundred percent (100%) for the first thirty (30) calendar days, short-term disability at seventy percent (70%) weekly indemnity for the next twenty one (21) weeks, and long-term disability leave of seventy percent (70%) thereafter ♦ Long-term disability as defined on the basis of two-year own occupation and any other occupation thereafter as described by the JCBA plan ♦ Health and welfare benefit premiums will be paid by the employer or the Plan for employees on sick leave, short-term disability and long-long- term disability ♦ Employer payment of premiums for both short-term and long-term disability benefits ♦ Claims Review Committee made up of three (3) medical doctors (one designated by the claimant, one by the employer and the third agreed to by the first two doctors) ♦ Mandatory rehabilitation as described in the JCBA plan ♦ Subject to provisions of the Plan, enrolment is mandatory for all active regular employees and for active non-regular employees employed on a continuing basis for at least a four (4) month period with fifty percent (50%) or more of a full-time workload as defined by local provisions. (b) The disability benefits plan includes Partial Disability Benefits which shall be administered in accordance with the terms and conditions of this plan, as amended July 1, 2009. 9.3.3 Within ninety (90) days of the ratification of this Agreement, a local bargaining unit that is not already covered by the common disability plan shall advise the local employer in writing either: (a) that it wishes its members to be covered by the disability benefits plan by this Agreement, or (b) that it wishes its members to continue to be covered by the disability benefits plan that currently applies to them. (a) Current employees in a local bargaining unit that chooses to participate in this Agreement’s disability benefits plan under Article 9.3.3 (a) above shall retain any sick leave banks accrued up to but not beyond March 31, 2004 including any entitlement to full or partial payout of such sick leave banks. The local provisions for use of those sick leave banks including payout, where applicable, shall continue to apply. (b) Current employees in a local bargaining unit that chooses to participate in this Agreement’s disability benefits plan under Article 9.3.3 (a) and who have sick leave benefits of a fixed amount of time and who are entitled under their local collective agreement to a payout of such benefits shall have those benefits converted to a bank as of March 31, 2004 and shall be entitled to payout of the bank, subject to the provisions of the local collective agreement. 9.3.5 Employees in a local bargaining unit that chooses to participate in this Agreement’s disability benefits plan under Article 9.3.3 (a) and who are not eligible for enrolment in the Plan shall be entitled to sick leave coverage as provided in the local collective agreement, subject to such sick leave not exceeding a maximum of thirty (30) calendar days per illness. 9.3.6 Disability benefits plan members shall establish and maintain a Joint Rehabilitation Committee (JRC) with up to two (2) representatives appointed by the Union and up to two (2) representatives appointed by the Employer.

Disability Benefits. 9.3.1 The employers shall continue a single plan for the provision of disability benefits for eligible employees who are covered by this Agreement and whose local bargaining unit has opted into this Agreement’s Plan pursuant to Article 9.3.3 in the 2001-2004 Common Agreement who have joined or who will subsequently join the plan pursuant to Article 9.3.3 below. (a) The disability benefits plan will be as set out in the findings of the Joint Committee on Benefits Administration (JCBA) entitled Long-Term Disability Benefit Initiative, but will be an insured plan and will include the following elements: ♦  Benefit level of sick leave at one hundred percent (100%) for the first thirty (30) calendar days, short-term disability at seventy percent (70%) weekly indemnity for the next twenty one (21) weeks, and long-term disability leave of seventy percent (70%) thereafter ♦  Long-term disability as defined on the basis of two-year own occupation and any other occupation thereafter as described by the JCBA plan ♦  Health and welfare benefit premiums will be paid by the employer or the Plan for employees on sick leave, short-term disability and long-long- term disability ♦  Employer payment of premiums for both short-term and long-term disability benefits ♦  Claims Review Committee made up of three (3) medical doctors (one designated by the claimant, one by the employer and the third agreed to by the first two doctors) ♦  Mandatory rehabilitation as described in the JCBA plan ♦  Subject to provisions of the Plan, enrolment is mandatory for all active regular employees and for active non-regular employees employed on a continuing basis for at least a four (4) month period with fifty percent (50%) or more of a full-time workload as defined by local provisions. (b) The disability benefits plan includes Partial Disability Benefits which shall be administered in accordance with the terms and conditions of this plan, as amended July 1, 2009. 9.3.3 Within ninety (90) days of the ratification of this Agreement, a local bargaining unit that is not already covered by the common disability plan shall advise the local employer in writing either: (a) that it wishes its members to be covered by the disability benefits plan by this Agreement, or (b) that it wishes its members to continue to be covered by the disability benefits plan that currently applies to them. (a) Current employees in a local bargaining unit that chooses to participate in this Agreement’s disability benefits plan under Article 9.3.3 (a) above shall retain any sick leave banks accrued up to but not beyond March 31, 2004 including any entitlement to full or partial payout of such sick leave banks. The local provisions for use of those sick leave banks including payout, where applicable, shall continue to apply. (b) Current employees in a local bargaining unit that chooses to participate in this Agreement’s disability benefits plan under Article 9.3.3 (a) and who have sick leave benefits of a fixed amount of time and who are entitled under their local collective agreement to a payout of such benefits shall have those benefits converted to a bank as of March 31, 2004 and shall be entitled to payout of the bank, subject to the provisions of the local collective agreement. 9.3.5 Employees in a local bargaining unit that chooses to participate in this Agreement’s disability benefits plan under Article 9.3.3 (a) and who are not eligible for enrolment in the Plan shall be entitled to sick leave coverage as provided in the local collective agreement, subject to such sick leave not exceeding a maximum of thirty (30) calendar days per illness. 9.3.6 Disability benefits plan members shall establish and maintain a Joint Rehabilitation Committee (JRC) with up to two (2) representatives appointed by the Union and up to two (2) representatives appointed by the Employer.

Disability Benefits. 9.3.1 The employers shall continue a single plan for the provision of disability benefits for eligible employees who are covered by this Agreement and whose local bargaining unit has opted into this Agreement’s Plan pursuant to Article 9.3.3 in the 2001-2004 Common Agreement who have joined or who will subsequently join the plan pursuant to Article 9.3.3 below. (a) The disability benefits plan will be as set out in the findings of the Joint Committee on Benefits Administration (JCBA) entitled Long-Term Disability Benefit Initiative, but will be an insured plan and will include the following elements: ♦ Benefit level of sick leave at one hundred percent (100%) for the first thirty (30) calendar days, short-term disability at seventy percent (70%) weekly indemnity for the next twenty one (21) weeks, and long-term disability leave of seventy percent (70%) thereafter ♦ Long-term disability as defined on the basis of two-year own occupation and any other occupation thereafter as described by the JCBA plan ♦ Health and welfare benefit premiums will be paid by the employer or the Plan for employees on sick leave, short-term disability and long-term disability ♦ Employer payment of premiums for both short-term and long-term disability benefits ♦ Claims Review Committee made up of three (3) medical doctors (one designated by the claimant, one by the employer and the third agreed to by the first two doctors) ♦ Mandatory rehabilitation as described in the JCBA plan ♦ Subject to provisions of the Plan, enrolment is mandatory for all active regular employees and for active non-regular employees employed on a continuing basis for at least a four (4) month period with fifty percent (50%) or more of a full-time workload as defined by local provisions. (b) The disability benefits plan includes Partial Disability Benefits which shall be administered in accordance with the terms and conditions of this plan, as amended July 1, 2009. 9.3.3 Within ninety (90) days of the ratification of this Agreement, a local bargaining unit that is not already covered by the common disability plan shall advise the local employer in writing either: (a) that it wishes its members to be covered by the disability benefits plan by this Agreement, or (b) that it wishes its members to continue to be covered by the disability benefits plan that currently applies to them. (a) Current employees in a local bargaining unit that chooses to participate in this Agreement’s disability benefits plan under Article 9.3.3 (a) above shall retain any sick leave banks accrued up to but not beyond March 31, 2004 including any entitlement to full or partial payout of such sick leave banks. The local provisions for use of those sick leave banks including payout, where applicable, shall continue to apply. (b) Current employees in a local bargaining unit that chooses to participate in this Agreement’s disability benefits plan under Article 9.3.3 (a) and who have sick leave benefits of a fixed amount of time and who are entitled under their local collective agreement to a payout of such benefits shall have those benefits converted to a bank as of March 31, 2004 and shall be entitled to payout of the bank, subject to the provisions of the local collective agreement. 9.3.5 Employees in a local bargaining unit that chooses to participate in this Agreement’s disability benefits plan under Article 9.3.3 (a) and who are not eligible for enrolment in the Plan shall be entitled to sick leave coverage as provided in the local collective agreement, subject to such sick leave not exceeding a maximum of thirty (30) calendar days per illness. 9.3.6 Disability benefits plan members shall establish and maintain a Joint Rehabilitation Committee (JRC) with up to two (2) representatives appointed by the Union and up to two (2) representatives appointed by the Employer. The operation of the JRC is subject to the terms and conditions of the disability benefits plan.

Disability Benefits. 9.3.1 The employers shall continue a single plan for the provision of disability benefits for eligible employees who are covered by this Agreement and whose local bargaining unit has opted into this Agreement’s Plan pursuant to Article 9.3.3 in the 2001-2004 Common Agreement who have joined or who will subsequently join the plan pursuant to Article 9.3.3 below. 9.3.2 (a) The disability benefits plan will be as set out in the findings of the Joint Committee on Benefits Administration (JCBA) entitled Long-Term Disability Benefit Initiative, but will be an insured plan and will include the following elements: ♦ Benefit level of sick leave at one hundred percent (100%) for the first thirty (30) calendar days, short-term disability at seventy percent (70%) weekly indemnity for the next twenty twenty-one (21) weeks, and long-long- term disability leave of seventy percent (70%) thereafter ♦ Long-term disability as defined on the basis of two-year own occupation and any other occupation thereafter as described by the JCBA plan ♦ Health and welfare benefit premiums will be paid by the employer or the Plan for employees on sick leave, short-term disability and long-long- term disability ♦ Employer payment of premiums for both short-term and long-term disability benefits ♦ Claims Review Committee made up of three (3) medical doctors (one designated by the claimant, one by the employer and the third agreed to by the first two doctors) ♦ Mandatory rehabilitation as described in the JCBA plan ♦ Subject to provisions of the Plan, enrolment is mandatory for all active regular employees and for active non-regular employees employed on a continuing basis for at least a four (4) month period with fifty percent (50%) or more of a full-time workload as defined by local provisions. (b) The disability benefits plan includes Partial Disability Benefits which shall be administered in accordance with the terms and conditions of this plan, as amended July 1, 2009. 9.3.3 Within ninety (90) days of the ratification of this Agreement, a local bargaining unit that is not already covered by the common disability plan shall advise the local employer in writing either: (a) that it wishes its members to be covered by the disability benefits plan by this Agreement, or (b) that it wishes its members to continue to be covered by the disability benefits plan that currently applies to them. (a) Current employees in a local bargaining unit that chooses to participate in this Agreement’s disability benefits plan under Article 9.3.3 (a) above shall retain any sick leave banks accrued up to but not beyond March 31, 2004 including any entitlement to full or partial payout of such sick leave banks. The local provisions for use of those sick leave banks including payout, where applicable, shall continue to apply. (b) Current employees in a local bargaining unit that chooses to participate in this Agreement’s disability benefits plan under Article 9.3.3 (a) and who have sick leave benefits of a fixed amount of time and who are entitled under their local collective agreement to a payout of such benefits shall have those benefits converted to a bank as of March 31, 2004 and shall be entitled to payout of the bank, subject to the provisions of the local collective agreement. 9.3.5 Employees in a local bargaining unit that chooses to participate in this Agreement’s disability benefits plan under Article 9.3.3 (a) and who are not eligible for enrolment in the Plan shall be entitled to sick leave coverage as provided in the local collective agreement, subject to such sick leave not exceeding a maximum of thirty (30) calendar days per illness. 9.3.6 Disability benefits plan members shall establish and maintain a Joint Rehabilitation Committee (JRC) with up to two (2) representatives appointed by the Union and up to two (2) representatives appointed by the Employer.

Disability Benefits. 9.3.1 The employers shall continue a single plan for the provision of disability benefits for eligible employees who are covered by this Agreement and whose local bargaining unit has opted into this Agreement’s Plan pursuant to Article 9.3.3 in the 2001-2004 Common Agreement who have joined or who will subsequently join the plan pursuant to Article 9.3.3 below. (a) The disability benefits plan will be as set out in the findings of the Joint Committee on Benefits Administration (JCBA) entitled Long-Term Disability Benefit Initiative, but will be an insured plan and will include the following elements: ♦ Benefit level of sick leave at one hundred percent (100%) for the first thirty (30) calendar days, short-term disability at seventy percent (70%) weekly indemnity for the next twenty one (21) weeks, and long-term disability leave of seventy percent (70%) thereafter ♦ Long-term disability as defined on the basis of two-year own occupation and any other occupation thereafter as described by the JCBA plan ♦ Health and welfare benefit premiums will be paid by the employer or the Plan for employees on sick leave, short-term disability and long-long- term disability ♦ Employer payment of premiums for both short-term and long-term disability benefits ♦ Claims Review Committee made up of three (3) medical doctors (one designated by the claimant, one by the employer and the third agreed to by the first two doctors) ♦ Mandatory rehabilitation as described in the JCBA plan ♦ Subject to provisions of the Plan, enrolment is mandatory for all active regular employees and for active non-regular employees employed on a continuing basis for at least a four (4) month period with fifty percent (50%) or more of a full-time workload as defined by local provisions. (b) The disability benefits plan includes Partial Disability Benefits which shall be administered in accordance with the terms and conditions of this plan, as amended July 1, 2009. 9.3.3 Within ninety (90) days of the ratification of this Agreement, a local bargaining unit that is not already covered by the common disability plan shall advise the local employer in writing either: (a) that it wishes its members to be covered by the disability benefits plan by this Agreement, or (b) that it wishes its members to continue to be covered by the disability benefits plan that currently applies to them. (a) Current employees in a local bargaining unit that chooses to participate in this Agreement’s disability benefits plan under Article 9.3.3 (a) above shall retain any sick leave banks accrued up to but not beyond March 31, 2004 including any entitlement to full or partial payout of such sick leave banks. The local provisions for use of those sick leave banks including payout, where applicable, shall continue to apply. (b) Current employees in a local bargaining unit that chooses to participate in this Agreement’s disability benefits plan under Article 9.3.3 (a) and who have sick leave benefits of a fixed amount of time and who are entitled under their local collective agreement to a payout of such benefits shall have those benefits converted to a bank as of March 31, 2004 and shall be entitled to payout of the bank, subject to the provisions of the local collective agreement. 9.3.5 Employees in a local bargaining unit that chooses to participate in this Agreement’s disability benefits plan under Article 9.3.3 (a) and who are not eligible for enrolment in the Plan shall be entitled to sick leave coverage as provided in the local collective agreement, subject to such sick leave not exceeding a maximum of thirty (30) calendar days per illness. 9.3.6 Disability benefits plan members shall establish and maintain a Joint Rehabilitation Committee (JRC) with up to two (2) representatives appointed by the Union and up to two (2) representatives appointed by the Employer.