Common use of Short-Term Sickness and Accident Insurance Clause in Contracts

Short-Term Sickness and Accident Insurance. The Employer shall provide each employee who is regularly scheduled to work a minimum of forty (40) hours per week (eighty hours bi-weekly) on a regular basis. Employees will be eligible for enrollment on the first of the month following thirty (30) days of employment. The short-term disability insurance plan provides an employee with active status at the onset of disability (i.e., not on extended non-paid leave or on layoff) with an amount equal to sixty percent (60%) of base weekly salary should he/she become disabled due to a covered non-occupational sickness or accidental injury. (An extended non-paid leave is a leave which is in excess of one week.) Disability benefits commence after the employee has been disabled for thirty (30) calendar days, but no earlier than the thirty-first (31st) day of disability, and may continue to be paid for the duration of the disability for up to twenty-two (22) weeks or until the employee becomes eligible for long-term disability benefits, whichever first occurs The employee must utilize sick, personal and vacation accruals until commencement of the short-term disability benefit. Once short-term disability insurance benefits commence payment, the employee must use sick, personal and vacation accruals to supplement the sixty percent (60%) benefit paid by short term disability. The employee must utilize available sick time, vacation time and personal time until exhausted. Upon exhaustion of all sick, vacation and personal time, the Employer will continue to pay group insurance, as set forth in Article XXIV Insured Benefits, for a period not to exceed six months from initial date of disability. The Employer shall pay the full cost of such insurance.

Short-Term Sickness and Accident Insurance. The Employer shall provide each employee who is regularly scheduled to work a minimum of forty (40) hours per week (eighty hours bi-weekly) on a regular basis. Employees will be eligible for enrollment on the first of the month following thirty (30) days of employment. The short-term disability insurance plan provides an employee with active status at the onset of disability (i.e., not on extended non-paid leave or on layoff) with an amount equal to sixty percent (60%) of base weekly salary should he/she become disabled due to a covered non-occupational sickness or accidental injury. (An extended non-paid leave is a leave which is in excess of one week.) Disability benefits commence after the employee has been disabled for thirty (30) calendar days, but no earlier than the thirty-first (31st) day of disability, and may continue to be paid for the duration of the disability for up to twenty-two (22) weeks or until the employee becomes eligible for long-term disability benefits, whichever first occurs The employee must utilize sick, personal and vacation accruals until commencement of the short-term disability benefit. Once short-term disability insurance benefits commence payment, the employee must use sick, personal and vacation accruals to supplement the sixty percent (60%) benefit paid by short term disability. The employee must utilize available sick time, vacation time and personal time until exhausted. Upon exhaustion of all sick, vacation and personal time, the Employer will continue to pay group insurance, as set forth in Article XXIV Insured Benefits, for a period not to exceed six months from initial date of disability. The Employer shall pay the full cost of such insurance.