Job Related Sick Benefit Sample Clauses

Job Related Sick Benefit. Employees who are injured on-the-job or develop a work related illness will be provided compensation for lost wages and medical expenses under the Workers’ Compensation law. If an employee qualifies for worker’s compensation benefits the Town will pay the difference between the workers’ compensation payment and the employee’s normal weekly salary for up to twenty-six (26) weeks. After the twenty-six (26) weeks time period, the Town’s differential payment will cease and the employee, if still disabled, will continue to be eligible for workers’ compensation benefits. The Town recognizes that there may be a delay before the employee begins to receive worker’s compensation payment and that such a delay could cause an interruption to the employee’s income stream. In order to alleviate this situation, the Town will advance the employee his/her normal weekly straight time earnings up to the date when worker’s compensation payments begin. At that time the employee will reimburse the Town the total amount of workers’ compensation benefits received from the date of injury. The Town will continue issuing to the employee differential payments until a total of twenty- six weeks of differential pay has been reached. In the event that the worker’s compensation claim is denied and the employee remains totally disabled, the employee’s absence will be treated under the Sick Leave policy retroactive to the employee’s first day of absence.