Safety and insurance. 20.01 Where an employee is absent due to illness or injury that is compensable by WSIB, the following shall apply: a. The Employer shall continue to pay all health and welfare benefits for a period of one (1) year. b. Subsequent to the period referred to in (a) above, benefit coverage may be continued by the employee, providing the employee pays the total cost of the premiums to the Employer for each monthly period during the absence. Employees must submit the premiums by the fifteenth (15th) of the month to the Employer or the Employer will drop coverage and the employee will not be entitled to insurance coverage until she/he returns to work. c. An employee will not be eligible for paid holidays, sick leave, or any other benefits mentioned in this Agreement during any absence covered by WSIB except where specified otherwise. An employee's absence during which she/he receives WSIB shall be considered as time worked for the purpose of calculating vacation pay, providing the employee returns to work within fifty-two (52) weeks after the injury or illness occurred. d. If the anticipated length of an absence due to a compensable accident is of six (6) weeks' duration or more, the Employer will post notice of the vacancy in accordance with the job-posting procedure in this Agreement. An injured employee shall have a period of two (2) years within which she/he shall retain seniority; within these two (2) years she/he shall have the right to return to work, but only if her/his doctor indicates to the Employer that she/he has the physical capacity to fully perform her/his normal job subject to the requirements of the Ontario Human Rights Code. e. If an employee returns to work within a two (2) year period, she/he shall regain her/his former job or its equivalent without loss of seniority or benefits accrued to the date of injury. f. If an employee returns to work under the modified work program, such return to work shall be considered a continuation of her/his current period on WSIB.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Safety and insurance. 20.01 Where an employee is absent due to illness or injury that is compensable by WSIB, the following shall apply:
a. The Employer shall continue to pay all health and welfare benefits for a period of one (1) year.
b. Subsequent to the period referred to in (a) above, benefit coverage may be continued by the employee, providing the employee pays the total cost of the premiums to the Employer for each monthly period during the absence. Employees must submit the premiums by the fifteenth (15th) of the month to the Employer or the Employer will drop coverage and the employee will not be entitled to insurance coverage until she/he returns to work.
c. An employee will not be eligible for paid holidays, sick leave, or any other benefits mentioned in this Agreement during any absence covered by WSIB except where specified otherwise. An employee's absence during which she/he receives WSIB shall be considered as time worked for the purpose of calculating vacation pay, providing the employee returns to work within fifty-fifty- two (52) weeks after the injury or illness occurred.
d. If the anticipated length of an absence due to a compensable accident is of six (6) weeks' duration or more, the Employer will post notice of the vacancy in accordance with the job-posting procedure in this Agreement. An injured employee shall have a period of two (2) years within which she/he shall retain seniority; within these two (2) years she/he shall have the right to return to work, but only if her/his doctor indicates to the Employer that she/he has the physical capacity to fully perform her/his normal job subject to the requirements of the Ontario Human Rights Code.
e. If an employee returns to work within a two (2) year period, she/he shall regain her/his former job or its equivalent without loss of seniority or benefits accrued to the date of injury.
f. If an employee returns to work under the modified work program, such return to work shall be considered a continuation of her/his current period on WSIB.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Safety and insurance. 20.01 21.01 Where an employee is absent due to illness or injury that is compensable by WSIB, the following shall apply:
a. The Employer shall continue to pay all health and welfare benefits for a period of one (1) year.
b. Subsequent to the period referred to in (a) above, benefit coverage may be continued by the employee, providing the employee pays the total cost of the premiums to the Employer for each monthly period during the absence. Employees must submit the premiums by the fifteenth (15th) of the month to the Employer or the Employer will drop coverage and the employee will not be entitled to insurance coverage until she/he returns to work.
c. An employee will not be eligible for paid holidays, sick leave, or any other benefits mentioned in this Agreement during any absence covered by WSIB except where specified otherwise. An employee's absence during which she/he receives WSIB shall be considered as time worked for the purpose of calculating vacation pay, providing the employee returns to work within fifty-two (52) weeks after the injury or illness occurred.
d. If the anticipated length of an absence due to a compensable accident is of six (6) weeks' duration or more, the Employer will post notice of the vacancy in accordance with the job-posting procedure in this Agreement. An injured employee shall have a period of two (2) years within which she/he shall retain seniority; within these two (2) years she/he shall have the right to return to work, but only if her/his doctor indicates to the Employer that she/he has the physical capacity to fully perform her/his normal job subject to the requirements of the Ontario Human Rights Code.
e. If an employee returns to work within a two (2) year period, she/he shall regain her/his former job or its equivalent without loss of seniority or benefits accrued to the date of injury.
f. If an employee returns to work under the modified work program, such return to work shall be considered a continuation of her/his current period on WSIB.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement