Modified Work. Where the Hospital and the Union agree, the Hospital may implement modified/rehabilitative work programs in order to assist employees returning to work following illness or injury. To facilitate these programs, it is understood and agreed that provisions of the collective agreement may, where agreed, be varied. The specific terms of the program will be signed by the Hospital and the Union.
Modified Work. In order to facilitate a safe return to work, in compliance with the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, the Ontario Human Rights Code, the collective agreement and other applicable legislation, the parties will endeavour to provide fair and consistent practices to accommodate employees who are ill, injured or permanently disabled. (The following clause related to modified work agreements will be incorporated into all collective agreements)
Modified Work. (The following clause related to modified work agreements will be incorporated into all collective agreements)
Modified Work. The Hospital will notify the Bargaining Unit President of the names of all nurses who go off work due to a work related injury or when a nurse goes on L.T.D.
Modified Work. Full-Time and Part-Time
Modified Work. The Employer and the Union and any affected employee have obligations to participate in developing a modified work plan based upon bonafide medical limitations to ensure the earliest possible return to work following a workplace illness/injury or other accidents/medical problems giving rise to a need for accommodation. The Employer and Union will develop a protocol to ensure that employees have a safe return to work which may include a mutual agreement between all parties to place individuals on work assignments without activating Article 17 of the Collective Agreement.
Modified Work. (a) The Employer may establish a modified work program designed to provide temporary opportunity to those employees who are unable to perform their normal work assignments due to a disabling on-the-job injury. Recognizing that a transitional return-to work program offering both physical and mental therapeutic benefits will accelerate the rehabilitative process of an injured employee, modified work programs are intended to enhance worker’s compensation benefits and are not to be utilized as a method to take advantage of an employee who has sustained an industrial injury, nor are they intended to be a permanent replacement for regular employment. An active employee, who is injured on the job, qualifies for workers’ compensation benefits and is subsequently laid off, will continue to receive compensation payments and benefits for the period provided by his/her supplement.
(b) Implementation of a modified work program shall be at the Employer’s option and shall be in strict compliance with applicable federal and state worker’s compensation statutes. Acceptance of modified work shall be on a voluntary basis at the option of the injured employee. However, refusal to accept modified work by an employee, otherwise entitled to worker’s compensation benefits, may result in a loss or reduction of such benefits as specifically provided by the provisions of applicable federal or state worker’s compensation statutes. Employees who accept modified work shall continue to be eligible to receive “temporary partial” worker’s compensation benefits as well as all other entitlements as provided by applicable federal or state worker’s compensation statutes. Employees who need additional medical and/or physical therapy may go for such treatments during scheduled hours for modified work whenever practical and reasonable.
(c) At facilities where the Employer has a modified work program in place, temporary modified assignments shall be offered in seniority order to those regular full time employees who are temporarily disabled due to a compensable worker’s compensation injury and who have received a detailed medical release from the attending physician clearly setting forth the limitations under which the employee may perform such modified assignments. Once a modified work assignment is made and another person is injured, the second person must wait until a modified work opening occurs, regardless of seniority. All modified work assignments must be made in strict compliance with the...
Modified Work. 24.01 The Employer will provide the President of the local with the names of nurses on whose behalf an application has been submitted to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board or for L.T.D. 24.02 The Employer will provide documentation and W.S.I.B. forms to nurses as required under the Board’s procedures.
Modified Work. (a) The Employer will notify the Local Nurses’ Association of the names of all nurses off work due to work related injury (whether or not the nurses are in receipt of Workplace Safety Insurance Benefits) and those on LTD by the 15th of each month.
(b) A modified work program may be made available for nurses returning from illness or injury compensable under the WSIB Act or LTD.
(c) The Employer will notify the local nurses’ Association of the name of any nurse returning to work on a modified/light/alternate work program.
(d) Prior to any nurse returning to work on a modified/light/alternate work program, the Employer will notify and meet with a staff representative of the Ontario Nurses’ Association and a member of the Local Executive to negotiate a back-to-work program for the nurse. The unavailability of a staff representative of the Association shall not delay such meeting.
(e) The Employer agrees to provide the nurse with a copy of the WSIB (Workplace Safety Insurance Board), Form 7, at the same time it is sent to the Board.
Modified Work. (a) The Employer will notify the Bargaining Unit President of the names of all members who go off work due to a work related injury (whether or not the employee is in receipt of WSIB benefits).
(b) The Employer agrees to provide the employee with a copy of WSIB form 7 at the same time that it is sent to WSIB.
(c) When it has been medically determined that an employee is unable to return to the full duties of her/his position due to a disability, the Employer will notify and meet with a staff representative of the Ontario Nurses' Association and a member of the local executive to discuss the circumstances surrounding the employee's return to suitable work.
