Disability Coverage. 16.1 Full-time employees who have completed ninety (90) days of continuous employment shall be eligible for disability benefits beginning on the first day in the event of an accident not subject to Workplace Safety & Insurance Board and beginning on the third day in the event of sickness. Benefits are calculated on the basis of seventy-five per cent (75%) of an employee's basic rate of pay with a minimum hourly rate of $12.50 and are payable for up to a maximum of seventeen (17) weeks per year non- cumulative. In the event that an employee's sickness results in hospitalization during the period of such sickness, benefits shall commence from the first day of sickness. 16.2 The Company reserves the right to change insurance companies or to self-insure, as the case may be, on the understanding that the benefits forthcoming to the employees are not affected by such change. 16.3 An employee injured on the job and required to go to a physician’s office or hospital will be provided free transportation by the Company, and where necessary, back to the Company’s premises or his or her home. 16.4 If an employee is injured on the job during regular working hours and as a result of being properly authorized to leave work, does not perform all regularly scheduled working hours of the shift on such day, the Company will make up his pay for his regularly scheduled hours so lost, at his base hourly rate of pay exclusive of premiums.
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Disability Coverage. 16.1 Full-time employees who have completed ninety sixty (9060)) days of continuous employment shall be eligible for disability benefits beginning on the first day in the event of an accident not subject to Workplace Safety & Insurance Board and beginning on the third day in the event of sickness. Benefits are calculated on the basis of seventy-five per cent (75%) of an employee's basic rate of pay with a minimum hourly rate of $12.50 and are payable for up to a maximum of seventeen (17) weeks per year non- non-cumulative. In the event that an employee's sickness results in hospitalization during the period of such sickness, benefits shall commence from the first day of sickness.
16.2 The Company reserves the right to change insurance companies or to self-self- insure, as the case may be, on the understanding that the benefits forthcoming to the employees are not affected by such change.
16.3 An employee injured on the job and required to go to a physician’s office or hospital will be provided free transportation by the Company, and where necessary, back to the Company’s premises or his or her home.
16.4 If an employee is injured on the job during regular working hours and as a result of being properly authorized to leave work, does not perform all regularly scheduled working hours of the shift on such day, the Company will make up his pay for his regularly scheduled hours so lost, at his base hourly rate of pay exclusive of premiums.
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Samples: Collective Agreement