Short-Term Plan Benefits. (a) In the event an employee is unable to work because of an illness or injury, they will be entitled to a benefit of seventy-five percent (75%) of pay for a period not to exceed six (6) months from date of absence (Short-Term Plan Period). In any two calendar year period, the first fifteen (15) workdays of absence from work due to illness or injury will be paid at one hundred percent (100%) of pay. Employees who exhaust all or part of their fifteen (15) day entitlement at one hundred (100%) of pay in that two (2) year calendar period will have it reinstated in the next two (2) year calendar period upon return to work. (b) Employees who have accumulated sick leave credit under the old sick leave plan will have their accumulated sick leave credits frozen but will supplement their seventy-five percent (75%) of pay benefit under the new plan by using twenty-five percent (25%) of a day's accumulation under the old sick leave plan for each day of absence under the new plan. The employee may opt to supplement the seventy-five percent (75%) benefit by the use of earned vacation time.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Short-Term Plan Benefits. (a) In the event an employee is unable to work because of an illness or injury, they he/she will be entitled to a benefit of seventy-five percent (75%) of pay for a period not to exceed six (6) months from date of absence (Short-Short Term Plan Period). In any two calendar year period, the first fifteen (15) workdays of absence from work due to illness or injury will be paid at one hundred percent (100%) of pay. Employees who exhaust all or part of their fifteen (15) day entitlement at one hundred (100%) of pay in that two (2) year calendar period will have it reinstated in the next two (2) year calendar period upon return to work.
(b) Employees who have accumulated sick leave credit under the old sick leave plan will have their accumulated sick leave credits frozen but will supplement their seventy-five percent (75%) of pay benefit under the new plan by using twenty-five percent (25%) of a day's accumulation under the old sick leave plan for each day of absence under the new plan. The employee may opt to supplement the seventy-five percent (75%) benefit by the use of earned vacation time.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Short-Term Plan Benefits. (a) In the event an employee is unable to work because of an illness or injury, they will be entitled to a benefit of seventy-five percent (75%) of pay for a period not to exceed six (6) months from date of absence (Short-Short Term Plan Period). In any two calendar year period, the first fifteen (15) workdays of absence from work due to illness or injury will be paid at one hundred percent (100%) of pay. Employees who exhaust all or part of their fifteen (15) day entitlement at one hundred (100%) of pay in that two (2) year calendar period will have it reinstated in the next two (2) year calendar period upon return to work.
(b) Employees who have accumulated sick leave credit under the old sick leave plan will have their accumulated sick leave credits frozen but will supplement their seventy-five percent (75%) of pay benefit under the new plan by using twenty-five percent (25%) of a day's accumulation under the old sick leave plan for each day of absence under the new plan. The employee may opt to supplement the seventy-five percent (75%) benefit by the use of earned vacation time.
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Samples: Collective Agreement