SICK BENEFIT. 42.1 Any employee, who in any port outside of Canada, has to be signed off a vessel owing to an illness, or owing to injury for which compensation is payable, except for the period during which the injury comes under the benefits of the compensation laws of Canada, shall, in addition to medical care and maintenance to which he is entitled under the Canada Shipping Act, also be entitled to two thirds of his basic pay until he is declared medically fit for duty and offered employment in a rank similar to that which he held when becoming sick or has been repatriated to a proper return port, whichever first happens, provided that in any event such sick pay shall not continue after twelve weeks from the date the employee was signed off Articles. Only such operations as in the opinion of competent medical authority are immediately necessary shall be performed away from Canada. Where an employee has an allotment payable to a dependent as defined under the Canada Shipping Act, the Company undertakes to continue such allotment up to the amount of the sick pay due the employee under the conditions stated above.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
SICK BENEFIT. 42.1 41.1 Any employee, who in any port outside of Canada, has to be signed off a vessel owing to an illness, except venereal disease and alcoholism or owing to injury for which compensation is payable, except for the period during which the injury comes under the benefits of the compensation laws of Canada, shall, in addition to medical care and maintenance to which he is entitled under the Canada Shipping Act, also be entitled to two thirds of his basic pay until he is declared medically fit for duty and offered employment in a rank similar to that which he held when becoming sick or has been repatriated to a proper return port, whichever first happens, provided that in any event such sick pay shall not continue after twelve weeks from the date the employee was signed off Articles. Only such operations as in the opinion of competent medical authority are immediately necessary shall be performed away from Canada. Where an employee has an allotment payable to a dependent as defined under the Canada Shipping Act, the Company undertakes to continue such allotment up to the amount of the sick pay due the employee under the conditions stated above.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
SICK BENEFIT. 42.1 Any employee, who in any port outside of Canada, has to be signed off a vessel owing to an illness, or owing to injury for which compensation is payable, except for the period during which the injury comes under the benefits of the compensation laws of Canada, shall, in addition to medical care and maintenance to which he the employee is entitled under the Canada Shipping Act, also be entitled to two thirds of his their basic pay until he the employee is declared medically fit for duty and offered employment in a rank similar to that which he they held when becoming sick or has been repatriated to a proper return port, whichever first happens, provided that in any event such sick pay shall not continue after twelve weeks from the date the employee was signed off Articles. Only such operations as in the opinion of competent medical authority are immediately necessary shall be performed away from Canada. Where an employee has an allotment payable to a dependent as defined under the Canada Shipping Act, the Company undertakes to continue such allotment up to the amount of the sick pay due the employee under the conditions stated above.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
SICK BENEFIT. 42.1 β
43.1 Any employeeofficer, who in any port outside of Canada, has to be signed off a vessel owing to an illness, or owing to injury for which compensation is payable, except for the period during which the injury comes under the benefits of the compensation laws of Canada, shall, in addition to medical care and maintenance to which he is entitled under the Canada Shipping Act, also be entitled to two thirds of his basic pay until he is declared medically fit for duty and offered employment in a rank similar to that which he held when becoming sick or has been repatriated to a proper return port, whichever first happens, provided that in any event such sick pay shall not continue after twelve weeks from the date the employee officer was signed off Articles. Only such operations as in the opinion of competent medical authority are immediately necessary shall be performed away from Canada. Where an employee officer has an allotment payable to a dependent as defined under the Canada Shipping Act, the Company undertakes to continue such allotment up to the amount of the sick pay due the employee officer under the conditions stated above.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement