Common use of SHORT TERM DISABILITY BENEFIT PLAN Clause in Contracts

SHORT TERM DISABILITY BENEFIT PLAN. The Company will maintain and pay the premium cost of a Short Term Disability Plan. The plan will provide seventy (70) percent of weekly earnings forty (40) hours times an employee’s regular rate and pieceworkers, forty (40) times the Xxxxxx/Limber hourly rate, up to a maximum of five hundred forty ($540.00) weekly, to commence on the first day in case of a non-compensable accident and after three (3) continuous days from the commencement of a disability due to a sickness and will continue for the period of disability up to a maximum of fifty-two (52) weeks. Effective September 1, 2005, the maximum will be increased to six hundred and forty ($640.00) dollars weekly. Effective September 1, 2005, the Company will compensate an employee when a fee is charged by a physician for completion of a medical certificate required to support a claim for benefits pursuant to the Short Term Disability Plan. Such payment shall be to a maximum amount of forty ($40.00) dollars per certificate and will be initiated upon presentation of a receipt from the attending physician