Common use of Employees of Hospital Association Railroads Clause in Contracts

Employees of Hospital Association Railroads. Hospital association railroads will pay the respective hospital associations such portion of the cost of the plan as is attributable to coverage for retired employees (but not for their dependents) contingent on commitments* from the hospital associÄ ations to provide benefits similar to those provided by the plan to such retired employees of the respective railroads as meet the above eligibility requirements and were members of the hospital association. In absence of such a commitment, no payment such as provided for in this paragraph shall be made to the hospital association involved, and the employees involved will be regarded as employees of a hospital association railroad for purposes of eligibility for early retirement medical benefits but shall be provided such benefits under the national plan the same as employees of nonÄhospital association railroads. On a railroad on which the hospital association has furnished such a commitment, individual retired or disabled employees who had not been members of the hospital association or who had been such members but elected to leave the association on discontinuing active railroad service, or who forego association benefits, will not have an option of electing coverage under the national plan; nor on a railroad on which there has been no such commitment from the hospital association will individual employees have an option of electing hospital association coverage in place of coverage under the national plan. *Including acceptance of the following obligation: If a hospital association having furnished the commitment referred to in Section 3 should subsequently withdraw such commitment, the employees involved will thereafter be provided their benefits under the national plan as provided in the second sentence of the

Employees of Hospital Association Railroads. Hospital association railroads will pay the respective hospital associations such portion of the cost of the plan as is attributable to coverage for retired employees (but not for their dependents) contingent on commitments* from the hospital associÄ ations associations to provide benefits similar to those provided by the plan to such retired employees of the respective railroads as meet the above eligibility requirements and were members of the hospital association. In absence of such a commitment, no payment such as provided for in this paragraph shall be made to the hospital association involved, and the employees involved will be regarded as employees of a hospital association railroad for purposes of eligibility for early retirement medical benefits but shall be provided such benefits under the national plan the same as employees of nonÄhospital non-hospital association railroads. On a railroad on which the hospital association has furnished such a commitment, individual retired or disabled employees who had not been members of the hospital association or who had been such members but elected to leave the association on discontinuing active railroad service, or who forego association benefits, will not have an option of electing coverage under the national plan; nor on a railroad on which there has been no such commitment from the hospital association will individual employees have an option of electing hospital association coverage in place of coverage under the national plan. *Including acceptance of the following obligation: If a hospital association having furnished the commitment referred to in Section 3 should subsequently withdraw such commitment, the employees involved will thereafter be provided their benefits under the national plan as provided in the second sentence of theSection 3. If any special contribution to the national plan is required to cover any liability which the hospital association may have incurred during the period it covered the employees involved (and while it was receiving the contribution identified in the first sentence of Section 3), which liability the national plan assumes by reason of the employees' coverage being transferred from the hospital association to the national plan, such special contribution will be made by the hospital association.