Common use of Entitlement to Workers Compensation Make-up Pay Clause in Contracts

Entitlement to Workers Compensation Make-up Pay. (a) A Doctor on receiving payment of weekly compensation under the WIRC Act is entitled to Workers Compensation Make-up Pay for up to a maximum aggregate period of 39 weeks for any one injury or illness. (b) No weekly payments of Workers Compensation Make-up Pay apply: (i) within the first two weeks of new employment; (ii) during the first five working days of incapacity; (iii) once the Doctor ends employment with the Health Service; (iv) once the Health Service terminates the employment of the Doctor for serious or wilful misconduct; (v) once there is a cessation or redemption of weekly compensation payments; (vi) for industrial diseases contracted by a gradual process or injury subject to recurrence, aggravation, or acceleration, unless the Doctor has been employed at the time of the incapacity for a minimum period of one month; (vii) for any period of paid annual leave, long service leave or for any paid public holiday. (c) In order to qualify for the continuance of Workers Compensation Make-up Pay on termination a Doctor must, if required by the Health Service, provide evidence of the continuing payment of weekly payments of compensation. (d) On engagement, a Doctor may be required to declare all workers compensation and/or accident claims made under the WIRC Act in the previous 5 years and in the event of defaults or inaccurate information being deliberately and knowingly declared the Health Service may require the Doctor to forfeit their entitlement to Workers Compensation Make-up Pay under this Agreement.